Here’s my last blog entry for intense 2007.
We’ve covered all the serious stuff so all that’s left are the Friday night Barbeque and Sleep over.
The Barbeque started after the main session. Along with all the scoffing that went on it was a good time to chat to people about what they thought of Intense, how they had got on helping out at Back Packers and to hear about how God had spoken in their lives during the week.
I’d got to know by small group by this point in the week but now I got to catch up with other people I knew and to get to know the characters behind the faces that had become familiar over the week.
Matt & Jenny C got a game of ultimate Frisbee going but I didn’t feel that energetic so I hung around with the people sitting by the main marquee. We stuck the Back Packers bootleg CD on and some of the girls had a karaoke session on the stage. Meanwhile there was juggling and Andy chucking his Diabolo about. It was a somewhat surreal scene, the perfect setting for a concept album or prog’ rock opera.
I wondered down to Choices Video with Carl, Charlotte, Caroline and Jo to get a DVD. Most of us had seen the Chesham edition of How Clean is Your House on Channel 4 last night so that was the main topic of conversation. Via our collective local knowledge we reasoned that TV is all a lie;
the local lady who was filmed asking how to get cat hair off a sofa knew how to do it really.
We had a bit of a falling out in the video shop over the comparative merits of High School Musical and The Pursuit of Happyness (a deliberate miss spelling) staring Will Smith and Son, some hair and a rubrik’s cube. It might have come to blows!
Back at the Back Packers site every body was idling about, playing games, chatting, yet more juggling and more of Andy’s Diabolo chucking (it originally evolved from the Chinese yo-yo, which was standardized in the 12th century fact fans!). Carl taught a group of us how to play Bonanza, a really rather good card game about planting beans & swapping them with other players. This kept me quiet for quite some time.
We eventually stuck the DVD on & those that didn’t want to watch it sat outside the marquee chit chatting. I divided my time between the chatty group and the group who were chucking a light up Frisbee about, which looked just like a UFO. Not that I have seen one. If I ever do I will now assume it to be a light up Frisbee.
Everybody was in bed by 11.30pm (the site has lots of neighbors we didn’t want to upset). Apparently the girls whispered away into the small hours, but we didn’t hear a peep out of the blokes.
In the morning we ate breakfast together, moaned about getting up early on a Saturday and cleared up all the Intense related stuff.
People seemed pretty positive about the whole ‘Intense’ experience. I said good-byes to a few people and asked them if they thought they would come next year. They said they where planning to come back every year for the rest of their lives. Seems like as good a way to end these posts as any.
Cheerio
Ben
PS I've just discouvered the BackPackers website. This is it:
http://www.backpackers-online.org.uk/
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