Lounge Launch

Stick a black blazer on these chaps and you've got yourself a pretty good idea of what The Lounge at Chesham High School! was like during yesterday lunch time. Donkey Konga fever hit room H5 when TGIF (the new name for the schools Christian Union) launched The Lounge.
So what's The Lounge - a bongo club for the spikey haired amongst you?
Not quite.







The Loung is a place where anyone in the school can come and hang around for a bit. There's plenty of stuff to do, play a bit of Gamecube (yesterday we had SSBM, DK and Nightfire going on at different times), play a bit of PS2 (yesterday we had Sing Star and Burnout Revenge), bring your guitar, play some Jenga, express yourself with some chalk, or just do some chit chatting.








WHERE AND WHEN?
The Lounge is running in H5 every lunch time from Monday (yesterday so you missed that!) to Wednesday.
Then TGIF starts on Friday.
Come along and bring your lunch.







Click here to visit the TGIF Myspace group page.

More Congratulations!

Congrats to Martina and Ben who got married today. Both of them used to go to Remix (the fondly remembered Sunday night Broadway Youth event that ran for 13 years). And to Nathan and Kath, who got married in August and were ALSO regular faces at Broadway Youth events. And to Liz and Ben who got married in July (I think we mentioned their wedding here at the time). Guess what! Yep they went to various Broadway Youth events too.

(please note that we make no guarantee that you will meet your future husband or wife at Free* Cafe' or Youth Alpha, but then you never know aye)

Lastly, we would like to congratulate Sarah (Youth Alpha group leader) for being a brides maid more times in one summer then a lot of people manage in their whole lives!

And congratulations to Valerie from the Free* Cafe' team and Graham (her husband who is a church deacon but most importantly ran Broadway's Youth program for years and best of all, he helps tidy up on Free* weeks) who have helped arranged weddings for their sister, daughter and son in about ten months. Crumbs!

God bless all of you!

Let's Pray ALL WEEK!

Hey did you know that Broadway Baptist Church (in beautiful Chesham) is 300 years old this year?

Well it's not so nrrrrr.

But it sort of is.
Really it's the 300th anniversary of a bunch of baptists (in beautiful Chesham) saying "let's build our own church, just here will do nicely!". The current church is the second building (I think) and originally it was called "Chesham General Baptist Church".

So what's the point of all this history you ask, and what's it got to do with praying all week.....hang on chum, I'm getting there!

Over the next month and a bit there's a lot of stuff going on to mark 300 years of normal people in this church
meeting with God,
worshipping Him,
serving Him
and inviting the rest of the town to get to know Him too.

Not a 'yay, 300 years of us' but a 'yay God', if you will. You get the difference, right?

To kick things off the church is having a week of prayer activites. Offically this starts on Sunday, but we like to think we're a bit ahead of the times in Youth Alpha, so (you might want to sit down of this bit...) we're kicking it off TONIGHT!

Tonight we are going to think about talking to God,
we're going to talk about taking to God,
stroof we're even going to do some talking to God.
If you're idea of 'prayer' is dull and boreing then get yourself along tonight and see how wrong you are!

On Sunday morning Youth Alpha will be focusing on some great practical examples of how to prayer. And of course they'll be the usual merriment and high jinks that you would expect from any of the fine events put on by Broadway Youth.

DETAILS: Youth Alpha is open to anyone from school year 7 to 13 (secondary school).
If you'd like to come but haven't been before please get in touch with us (we're in the phone book or leave a comment here) so we know whoes coming.
Youth Alpha takes place on Friday nights 7.30 - 9.30pm at the church (please come to the back door and ring the bell)
and on Sunday mornings, 10.30 - 12pm during the church service.

The 100th post!

Wow, we've posted 100 bits and bobs on this page since we started back in June.
And I haven't won a prize or had a telegram from the queen or anything.

Jango's Fretts gets 2000 viewings

My question is: WHY?!!

Click here if you haven't seen it yet.











Or better still, click here and watch one of the other videos from the fine selection on offer on Broadway Youth TV.

The first free* of the term

all went well, i played my first video game in 5 days, 5 whole days!!! it seemed really quiet though, fbi next week for all who are going, and apart from that, yeh





and i am still ssbm chamion so :P

CONGRATULATINS FISH-FACE!

Weldone to Nish Nash, Iain, Charlotte and Lauren (better known as team Fish-Face) who won an historic and storming victory over team Bubba Cheese last Sunday morning.

The contest in question was the incredibly exciting BIBLE MIND 2006 and the challenges involved ranged from
naming 3 of the 4 actors who played Darth Vader,
(a question that I maintain is totally fair and not as hard as people made out)
a memory and observation skills test based on this bit of the bible,
and writing a caption to make Lydia laugh.

It was all part of Sunday mornings Youth Alpha and if you missed it, darn it you missed out. Ah well, there's another one on Sunday.

Look out for news of this weeks YA right here later in the week.

Free* back tomorrow!!!

Hey everybody.
Free* Cafe' is back tomorrow and Ming the merciful and I have spent most of the day getting ready for it. Between us, the Lingle and (NEW CHESHAM YOUTH WORKER ALERT!) Jenny, we made some funky-fly new fliers and handed 'em to folks in town, and a good whack of the day was spent filming the first new Free* Cafe' video in 2 months.

The vid' is an introduction to all things Jenny. She works for The Anglican parish churches in Chesham and has just moved to town. You can catch the video at Free* tomorrow, or else follow the link at the side to Broadway Youth TV where it will appear some time in the next few days.

In the mean time you can find out more about Jenny by casting your eye over these highly dubious photos we've half inched off her myspace profile.
Click here to see it for yourself!
Jenny's got some interesting videos on there, blog entries, photos, the lot, so knock yourself out.


Look at this! J and her mates all wear top hats. It's a sort of urban street gang thing.








J and a sparring partner prepare for a bout of kicks fast as lightening! She's a dab hand at Kung Fu, so don't mess!











See you at Free* tomorrow, 3.30pm - 5pm @ Broadway Baptist Church, Chesham. School years 6 and up.

almost the start of a new free* cafe

well, its almost here, i cant wait, will give me something to do after school on a wednes day instead of hanging out at the skate park, and seeing people, well, c ya there people of chesham



yes, yes i am posting tis at 9:45 on a monday night

Especially for Mr Random

This post is dedicated to Mr R and any other Star Wars / Lego / Video games fans passing by (so Ming and Rueben then). Star Wars Lego 2 is finally starting to get reviewd on the American game sites (click here to read the IGN review). Although I never got the original game, I gladly tip my hat to UK based game developers Travellers Tales for flogging an obscene amount of games of everyone but me and creating a great entry level expirence for young fans.

Here's some of my favourite screen shots from the deluge of pics floating around at the moment, dedicated to anyone who put the hours in to unlocking Jango Fett (take a bow, you know who you are!)





























Go on Chewie, rip their little plastic arms out!










Heh heh heh. It's Yoda in a gold bikini.









This is still funny. Right?

A special message....

The scarry big haired family have a special message for everyone on the Broadway Youth page:

"Hey everybody over in Ing-er-land and all you beautiful folks in sunny Chesh-Ham, Bucking-Ham-Shire. Say Hi to the all the nice people across the pond Junior!"

"Sure thing sir. Hi everybody. Do you have back combing where you live?"

"Of course they do son, they ain't savages.
Any-hoo, the family and me, we want to extend a good ol' fashioned welcome to everybody from
YOUTH ALPHA at Broadway Baptist Church over in sunny Chesh-Ham, Bucking-Ham-Shire. We got our selves some real good news for you guys. Ain't that right honey?"

"Sure is Hon'"

"Well don't by shy baby cakes, tell em' what it is!"

"Sorry Hon', the hairspray kinda made me a little light headed for a secon' ther'ah.
Y'all are in for a treat. Tonight Youth Alpha is back, 7.30PM TO 9.30PM down at lill' old BROADWAY BAPTIST CHURCH over in sunny Chesh-Ham, Bucking-Ham-Shire. And what betta way-ah to get started then with a big ol' tradional British CHOCOLATE FONDUE."

"Thas right. Bring along something to dip in the chocolate (not ya finger boy!). and DON'T BE LATE.
Ya'll have a good ol' time now. Say bye to the nice people Junior!"

"Yes sir. Bye everybody. Or as you British say,
'Cheerio old chap, TTFN.'."

"Junior! What have I told you about the indescriminate use of national stero types?"

"But Pa..."

"Go to your room!"

YOUTH ALPHA - BACK TONIGHT
CHOCOLATE FONDUE NIGHT
7.30 TO 9.30PM @ BROADWAY BAPTIST CHURCH

Mahbenjah's special note to any America readers:
"I'm so sorry!"

Is this the worst video game in history?

Well folks the quest for histories most appalling video game begins here.
Click here to toddle over to the Tunnock's website and witness the horror that is "Snack Hunt".

Use your arrow keys to guide the severed head of a 50's style young boy around a yellow maze gobbling up his weekly quota of Caramels as he goes (see two posts below for more of this important issue). So it's Pac-man. Or Ms Pac-man, I am no sexist! But without the ghosts (i.e. the challlenging and fun elements).
Instead of dodging specters, you guide the slightly disturbing image of the poor decapitated boys bonce around the maze within a time limit. I've read that severed heads are conscious for up to a minute and it seems brave of Tunnock's to commission a video game based on this theory in order to sell their 4 million bars this week. But I guess you have to keep up to date with market trends in this day and age. Sadly the game moves so slowly that I am convinced it is impossible to complete the mazes within the given time limit.

Check it out, have a go, but be careful. If it starts to feel like fun you maybe suffering from an undiagnosed mental health problem. If so please see your GP immediately!

Do you know a worse video game? Don't keep it to yourself, tell the rest of us where to find it!

Things to do to relax after your fist day back at school

Had a rough day in your educational establishment of choice?
Stuff those herbal remedies in the swing bin and try one of these ancient relaxation methods suggested by our expert*.

1. Eat your entire weekly quota of Tunnock’s Caramels in one sitting
2. Do a painting of a dog using only things you find in the kitchen cupboards like Marmite and Tip Top.
3. Get the bus to Amersham, take photos of all the public convinces there and build up the website you started yesterday
4. Challenge yourself to a game of mercy
5. Find out who was number 1 in the charts when you were born, Google for their contact details and write to them to let them know how your life has turned out so far. Give their song a rating out of 5 based on how accurately it reflects your life or personality
6. Rub some Deep Heat on an apple and watch to see if anything happens
7. Stand on your head for a bit
8. Try to beat yesterday’s bread eating PB. Come on, you can do it! Go! Go! Go!
9. Read two different translations of the same Psalm.
Click here
and here!
10. Find an old magazine or book and pencil in all the o’s

*Field of expertise is;
“which comics are worth borrowing from Chesham Library”.
Hey, it’s an import and recognised academic discipline!

Are you doing your bit for Tunnock’s?

You know how it is, you’re supposed to be working but then something that seems far more important forces you to down tools and consider it for some time. Like this for example:

When was the last time you ate a Tunnock’s Caramel?











You know, the caramel wafer bar with the thinnest covering of chocolate scientifically possible and the 1940’s style packaging. When was the last time you ate one of those? How many would you say you eat in a year?

You know how the foil wrapping proudly claims “4’000’000 made and sold each week”. Rueben has figured out that for that to be true every man woman and child in the UK has to eat 4 bars a year. And you know what, I checked, he’s right.


















I haven’t had one in about 5 years. I used to eat them when I was at school so maybe that’s how it works; school pupils eat 6 a year and adults only have to have 2. But that still means I’m 10 down. And that’s without counting my years as an infant. Crumbs, I’ve got some catching up to do. This explains that feeling I sometimes get when I think I’ve forgotten to do something important but can’t remember what.

Learn from my mistake; don’t let yourself become a Caramel victim.
Keep your quota up.

Things to do on your last day of FREEDOM!

School's are back very very soon. Here’s some suggestions for how to spend the remaining hours of the holidays.

1. Write a poem about cheese
2. Watch TV all day and write a log of everything you watch including adverts
3. Draw a picture of your own face, tear it up and rearrange it as you please
4. Phone everyone you know and ask for money. When they ask why you need it say “Ooooh, what a personal question!” and see what they say
5. Go to the park and start a conversation with a goose
6. Borrow a video camera, hide in a wardrobe with it and jump out screaming when one of your family members passes by. Be sure to video their ‘emotional response’
7. Watch Countdown then write a strongly worded letter of complaint to Channel 4 giving a minute by minute breakdown of how it offended you
8. Kiss your Mum goodbye
9. See what household objects you can balance on your head. Avoid sharp things like knives and massive weights like washing machines
10. Dress up like a popular character from history
11. Take photos of all the public conveniences in Chesham, rate each one out of 5 and post your finding on that information-super-highway thing everyone’s talking about
12. Using an eyebrow pencil or novelty item, spend the day with a moustache. This is especially fun for girls!
13. Start a blog about your adventures in time travel
14. See how much bread you can eat today, make that your Personal Best. Build on it everyday and see if you can’t double your PB by the end of the month. Then do on a diet
15. Give every item in your kitchen cutlery draw it’s own name, then make little name tags for all your new found friends

Anyone got any other ideas?

go karting......hurts

i just back from go karting for my grandads 70th, it was a whole load of fun, but wen so many people keep bumping into your back because your braking to avoid someone else, and the seats are made of plastic, it bruises your back, and mine is killing me right now, owwwwwww the pain

Free* Cafe' and F.B.I. ready to go

Here they are, the dates for the relaunch of Free* Cafe' and F.B.I.
Drum roll please.


Free* is back on Wednesday 13th September, 3.25ish pm to 5pm. Welcoming year 6 and up.

F.B.I. is back the next week, Wednesday 20th September, times are the same.
You will need a new invitation for F.B.I. but we'll give these out at Free*

See you there

Go to Chesham High? Got a myspace page?

Then click here to visit the myspace group for Thank God It's Friday,
the new name for the school's Christian Union.


Then why not sign up as a member?
It's a pretty snazzy looking page so have a shuffty.

Beat the crowds to the latest soundz

Those people look very excited don't they.

Could it be because they are about to rush over to their computers and click on the link below?

To visit Mahbenjah's own page on Garageband.com and stream or down load some shoddy MP3s at an extremely low bit rate?

Feverish with anticipation at savouring two pieces of Benja-magic on their MP3 players?

Or maybe they've just never seen a camera before,
they are PRETTY exciting first time you see one dontcha think?

Click here and reach for the cotton buds!

Edit (especially for Mr R) - hit the link to go to the page, on the right you should see a music player with song titles and those triangle 'play' buttons.
Or hit the 'songs' tab at the top of the artist section.
Disclaimer: yep I know it's a pretty rough user expirience. Sorry folks!

Cheekiness: Quality or Curse?

This week I have adopted a new policy:
"Be a bit cheeky to shop venders"
Not rude you understand, just a bit cheeky. So far it's been a modest success.
Here is the harvest of stuff I have thus far reaped through cheekiness :

A red frisbee
A Nintendo DS accessory kit
An extra stamp on the Ming's loyalty card in Cafe' Nero



So there you have it; cheek.
Try it yourself and post news of your winnings!