someone like you

So I don't know if anyone reads my blog at all, but I havn't written here in a while, so I thought I would. Haha yes it's early in the morning, but I dont' go to bed til late. I nap in the day too, so that keeps me awake at night as well.
School here is great. I'm loving it. Hating the homework, but loving school. Especially being on my own, I love living on my own, but without all the responsibility of living on my own. Like I don't have to cook my own food or clean my own bathroom, and I don't have dishes to clean except my mug at times and maybe my plastic dish from time to time. But it's great, i really like it :)
School is super busy! Today I had a 14 hour day! I had class at 830am and didn't get back to my room til 1030pm. I came back for an hour to nap, but that was it! Haha so i'm super busy!!!
Theres always a lot to do. I was in the practice room for 5 hours today, singing and composing. And I watched some of Tosca with a friend for an hour and bit. It's a pretty intense opera I won't lie. It's really good.
I'm really excited to start actually getting better!! haha, i havn't gotten better yet, but i'm learning lots of new techniques and stuff, so hopefully i'll start getting the hang of them soon. My lesson was so super fursterating today, cause I just couldn't hit the high notes, at all, no matter what I did or tried. So thats all we did all lesson, and by the end of the lesson my teacher just said we aren't going to sing the song! GAH!! SO FRUSTERATING!!
Whatever.
So I can't believe it's already October :S Haha where did time go?
This weekend should be a gong show. Today i'm going to the road tour for qwanoes, it'll be good to see some camp people. Saturday night is a U signers party, I hope I can go, but i'll be home and its out here in vancouver..such a long way!! haha. Whcih means i'd skip church on sunday. But sunday I get to see carlann and lauren! :) pretty excited for that. And then maybe go out sunday night again. Haha, I love weekends. I'm bringing my guitar back as well!! So stoked! I'll nspend a bunch of time doing that, I miss sitting down to it and just playing and singing. I can't raelly do that in the music building cause it's weird to just sit and play songs and sing non-opera music. ha. oh well, the guitar is coming out so that will be good :)
I'm also bringing out christmas lights :) that's going to be fun. haha i love christmas lights.
well i don't have much else to say, but that i need to actually get to bed :S
I have class tomorrow! GAH
Stupid german...
anyway I am out :)
Niiiight world :)
God bless
lovelovelove
Courtney
oh ps, two is better than one

I'd like to my myself believe that planet earth turns slowly

So I am wide awake at 8am. This is stupid, I just wanted to sleep in for 1 day! But I guess it can be to my advantage when I start my classes...oh wait, thats TUESDAY!
I move in tomorrow, btw. No big, just...moving out. I'm so nervous and scared, I even questioned myself a few nights ago if it was really what I wanted to do and this was the right thing. I know it is, but im just so scared. What if I don't make friends? What if I don't fit in? Will I even have roommates? Will I like them? Will we get along? What if I hate UBC, and hate my classes, what if I fail? Too many what if's, not enough things im sure about. Well I am sure that I havn't done near enough packing. Today is going to be just a solid day of packing, cleaning, organizing and picking up anything that I might need that I have forgotten. Should be an interesing day, seeing as I have left almost all my packing until the day before I move. I dont' surprise myself though. I have some lists though that I made a while ago that can maybe help me. I have to apply for a job as well. Im really interested in getting a job with the althetic department and working games or working with the athletic department in general. I think it would be sweet! I don't really want a music job cause i'm going to be around music 24/7 essentially by studying opera, so i kinda want a job where I can get away from that.
I don't have terribly much to speak of. I went on a trip to francois lake this past weekend, from thursday to monday. I caught 6 fish, named em all. Edgar, Simon, Sully, Captain Sir, Thatchter and Morgan. I had one, and it tasted pretty darn good as well! It was great to see my aunt and uncle, I had lots of fun being up there. The boat was kinda cramped, but thats ok, at least we had a boat to be on and fish on.
Well I am going to attempt to start my day once I decide to actually step out of my bed. Maybe i'll try going back to sleep?....Probably not, but I can always try
lovelovelove
God bless
Courtney

Some hours to chill!!

So I am sitting here at home, relaxed, it's quite nice i must admit.
Though im not feeling so great. My chest cough is back, which sucks major. And I have a cold on top of it.
But I had the best road trip ever. It was amazing! Me and Alycia did scavenger hunt up to 150 mile house, which was pretty sweet, and we spent the night there at her parents house. Her family is sweet. They are crazy, i love it. I def. felt like part of the fam being there. It was lots of fun. We went and saw a cattleguard and went to a 'waterfall'. Haha well it's usually a raging waterfall, but was more like a trickle when we went, so we walked down it on the rocks that aren't normally showing. It was cool, then we did some crazy band pose, never done it, now I have! It was fun. And we played slap the deck, so incredibly stressful!!! I couldn't even handle it!!
The next morning we left pretty early to go to Michaels cabin, which was epic. Quite the gong show! We went water tubing when we got there, and Michael and Alycia had quite the wipe out as the tube flipped. Epic to say the least. And then the next day Alycia ditched to go back to camp early in the morning. Michael, his dad and myself went out on the boat and I got to try water skiing, and we went down the river twice in tubes. Oh, and i dominate at the game 3 13. Sweet game which I am excellent at. You can challenge me if you wish, but i'm pretty sure i'd win.
Then I picked up my great aunt in enderby and headed back home.
Saw Laura and Carlann yesertday. I havn't seen Carlann in like close to 3 months, so I was so excited to see her! And me and Laura watched Star Wars return on the Jedi. Heck yes we are nerds. Love it though. And we hit up dairy queen. It was grrrrreat.
So i pretty much just gave a play by play of my week/weekend. How lame am I? Clearly bored. I need to get stuff for university, and print pictures off, and start packing and blah blah blah. I am so scared to move to UBC. So stoked, but scared at the same time. I'm not the best at getting to know people to begin with so this is going to be a tough one, but fun none the less. I am excited.
I'm going fishing this weekend!! I leave thursday to go up to see my aunt and uncle in PG and then we are going fishing for 3 days on the boat...SO EXCITED!! I love fishing so much! And just chillin out on the boat is tons of fun. Did I mention I love fishing? It's gonna be great, I am stoked.
Love seeing my aunt and uncle too, they are tons of fun and I love them lots.
I'm sad i'm going to be missing Point Roberts :( I had such a gong show last year, and i'm going to miss it this year, but fishing is def. my priority, by far.
Man, today i just had one of those God moments. Out of nowhere, of how wonderful great and loving God is. It was a great feeling. I def. felt his embrace, he was showing me his love just in a simple way, i think it just came out of a song. It was so cool. God is so amazing. He's got it all covered, it's the best. Jereimiah 29:11 :)
I went to lunch today with my rents and then me and my mom went to metro. I got a backpack. Exciting right? It's pretty cool, I need one for school, so I'm glad I found one.
Well I am going to peace out. Have a good one.
lovelovelove
God Bless,
Courtney

Put the drumbeat back in my heart.

So back from camp, most amazing time ever. I'm going to miss it so much and all the people.
But I've learned so much from being there for summer, and i'm filled with a new fire, and I feel ready to go out into the world, use what i've learned and make a difference.
God really revived me at camp. He brought me back to life.
He's set a purpose in my life now, to be his child and just praise him in everything I do. I'm going to do my year at UBC, and after that, who knows. I really want to go to Briercrest and take worship there. Man, God really saved me from myself at camp.
To be quite honest, before camp I felt like I didn't really have much of a purpose in my life and that I was going nowhere. I feel that now, God has big plans for me. Jeremiah 29:11 is a perfect example of God telling us all he has planned.
I know that theres so much more out there for me, and this year I really want to grasp this new freedom God has placed in my soul, and I want to live for him in everything I do. I never want to loose this fire.
I sadly must say that I am going to be leaving the Grove :( But I feel that if I stay I won't grow spiritually. I will be back lots though and I still want to see everyone and go to the College and Career small group, but I can't loose this fire I have and this new found love for life. I lost it somewhere in the past and God gave it back to me.
I really would like to volunteer at the UGM or somewhere like that during the year as well. I really want to be a youth leader as well. Thats something I really really want to do. And I want to do worship somewhere. Hard as it is to leave, God is calling me and I could never ignore his call.
It feels so great to be home though. As much as I miss camp, I'm really enjoying being home. I don't think I've fully grasped the fact that i'm not going back yet haha. It will hit me though eventually which is scary. But the people that matter and care I will see again, which comforts me.
Well i'm am headed off to dinner so I will catch ya lata.
God Bless,
LOVELOVELOVE
Courtney
"I wanna wake up, I wanna restart, but the drumbeat back in my heart, I need to be revived, bring me back to life."

I love you Lord

Home at last. Bitter sweet I suppose. There is one part of me that is so excited to finally be home, and to take all I have learned and this fire I feel inside, and go out into the world. There are so many things I want out of life and I am so ready to go out and get them.
But there is also a part of me that has started to miss camp. I don't know if it has really hit me that im not going back. Probably not. I havn't really cried yet about it, i'm hoping i won't. I couldn't really handle the tears back at camp today. Though crying isn't a bad thing, i don't do well with goodbyes, tears don't help in any way.
But I know that the people that matter and that I care about and that care about me, I will see again, so theres a sense of peace about it as well. And God has a plan for everything, so I am trusting in him.
I got my necklace today. Actually last night. It's my camp necklace that says my name, which we were supposed to get at the beginning of camp, but just got now. And to my surprise, it reads "Courtrey". I am not sure who I should be blaming for this, but I do find it comical, but it is not my name. Oh well, i guess an R is close to an N? Not really.
This week was lots of fun and so was family camp.
Family camp gave me a lot of alone time, and time with God which was really sweet, but also some time to just hang out with people which was cool. But a lot of alone time, which i didn't really mind since I found out it's just what I needed.
But I was sick all of family camp pretty much with a chest infection that I think is going away. Or is pretty much gone actually.
But it was pretty chill, I had it really easy. I was supposed to be on maintnence, but many of the mornings I found myself sick and unable to get out of bed to do maintnence. But when I slept in I felt much better and went and did my activies. I was a belayer and I also did guitar instruction which was pretty cool.
Last week was a pretty cool week. I counseled with Jenna. That was a gong show and a half. We were a pretty stellar team, I must say.
I got to be on top of the plunger which is 90 feet in the air, for 2 hours!! Amazing to say the least! Though the view was mostly trees, I was so high up and felt so amazing up there. I got some good God time in too while I was up there, which was sweet. I read my bible and prayed a bunch, and took lots of random pictures too. I also dropped my iPod down to the ground. Somehow it survived and still works. Thank Jesus.
I also saw some meteors! That was amazingly cool. We were out on the dock, and the phsophoresents were sooo amazing, they were the brighest I have ever seen them. They were so incredibly glittery. And the moon was just hypnotyzing. It was like this mysterious shadowy ball off in the distance, and then i glowed a firey red but it seemed so close! It was really amazing. And then we saw like 5 meteors during the night. Just glittering light streaking across the sky leaving tails of smoke behind. One of the most amazing thigns I have ever seen, I admit.
The girls were awesome, though they wern't ready for the Jesus stuff, they were so much fun to be around.
Well I think i'm going to head off to bed and write some more post-camp blogs later.
I am also going to Seattle this week with Alycia and Amy :D I am so excited!! Like, you have no idea. haha
Well I need some sleep, I think im going to go to church tomorrow morning.
Oh church...I have some big decisions to make, one which I think I may be making tomorrow. Tomorrow may very well be one of my last services there.
Night
God bless
LOVELOVELOVE
Courtney

So family camp is over!

Which is pretty cool, cause im counsilling next week with Jenna! yay!

And i've also moved up to a co-counselor. 

sweet! anyway, so i went jelly fish fishing, got chased by a killer bunny cat, and picked blackberries and got a thorn stuck in my foot after going to the guest house.

Ya, anyway, i won't lie, I am really excited to go back home. 

Like i'm def. going to miss camp a lot, but at the same time, the loneliness def. takes a toll, and it's making me ready to go home.

I only have 1 week left of camp. Went by really fast.

Well I don't have much time, so I will write later.

Bye

God bless

Courtney

Amazing love how can it be?

Hola!!

Wow I have written anything here for a while. It's my birthday today :) hehe

I've had an amazing b-day though. We did big blue and wide eyed and liquified today, which are my FAVORITE events, and they were on my b-day which was pretty sweet :)

Well nothing really new to talk of. I have an autistic girl in my cabin this week, it's been pretty tough. She's 18 (the other girls are 13 and 14) and she has the mental capacity of a 5 year old. So thats been kinda tough and draining cause we have to tell her to do EVERYTHING, but she's a real sweetheart. 

There are some other difficult parts in the cabin but all in all it's lots of fun.

I started a no mirror or makeup day today. So I havn't looked in a mirror all day and I didn't put makeup on, so I have no idea how I look right now. But I think it's pretty sweet. Lots of other counsillors are doing it too and lots of kids, which is sweet.

It's blistering hot here. Like soooooo hot, I'm always sweating. Which reminds me, i'm so thirsty. I'm kinda sick too, which sucks, but oh well, God has got my back :)

A house burnt down last night, I woke up at 2 in the morning to a burning smell, and i didn't know what it was, turns out it was a house in crofton that burned down. 

Well I should get going. 2 weeks til I come home! I am excited but really sad at the same time. I love camp a lot. I'm going to miss it a lot too and all the amazing people. But lets not think of that. haha

anyway ciao!

God Bless,

LOVELOVELOVE

Courtney

as long as i have breath to breathe i will sing your praise

Another week of camp! Woot!

Got new campers yesterday! So exciting! They are a great group of girls. High energy for sure! They are go go go all the time. Most of them are 13 years old. They are lots of fun to be around. 

I'm so happy i'm counsilling again! Yay!

Well i learned how to drive a tractor. Yes I did!! Guess it adds to my Albertan roots. haha. But I quite enjoy it. It's standard and I thought I was going to stall it, but I didn't!

Anyway on friday I went and saw Ice Age 3D and went shopping and bought this cool clock thats shaped like an eggs and it changes color and tells you the time, temperature, date, has an alarm and something else, I forget. It's super cool and was like 5 bucks. Sweet, I know :P

I am super thirsty right now. Just throwing it out there. I have been for like an hour now :(

Im in challenge course again this week. Pretty sure i'm going to always be there from here on out :P But I love the challenge course so it's all good. 

I had the most hilarious ride on the ionator with megan and leala. We got flipped!! Supposdly the ionator doesn't flip...but it i did, let me tell you.

And I got blobbed and landed on my back, so my lower back is all red from saturday. Ow :(

Well I don't have tons to say. It's super super hot today! Like dying of heat hot!

I'm gonna get going, Jenalee is waiting for a computer. Bye

God bless,

LOVELOVELOVE

Courtney

Today is the last day of juniors camp!! I'm excited but kinda sad to see my girls go. It's been quite the week. They were really unresponsive to most talk of God during the day, but there was one night we went down to the dock that was amazing, and only the Holy Spirit could have moved them like they were. We went down there and I told my testimony and made up a song to Psalms 139. They cried a bit during my testimony but they were bawling during the song. I had my guitar out. Then we talked to them about how much God really loves them and how much he wants them, relating back to Psalms 139 and how he wrote their days in his books and how he knit them together in their mothers womb. They were all crying and the Holy Spirit was definatly moving in them, it was evident. And we told them to look up at the stars and see every single one up there, and that they were all made for them by God, because of his love. And the words from me and Alycia poured out, they were definatly not from us but from God. And the song I sang did not come from me, but from God, it was pretty amazing i think. So then we let them sit by themselves some place on the dock and I played my guitar (played some of my favorite worship songs), and Alycia went around and prayed with them and talked with them and asked them like "is this what you want? are you sure? you want to follow him with your life?" and they all said yes, except for one girl who thought it was all a little too fast for her. And then during the days again they just seemed to be uninterested in God, but that one night was very moving, it was incredible.

Well I have to get going

lovelovelove

courtney

Another day of camp. Today was big blue and wide eyed. Def. wasn't as cold as  weeks ago which was nice. I got shot right in the eye. I was pretty convinced my eye was going to explode after that. And the shaving cream stun my eyes. Lunch was good, but i didn't get any breakfast cause one of my campers took enough food for about 5 people and ate it herself. The food situation can sometimes be very frusterating. The girls have been fun, but very unresponsive to discussion and what not. They aren't very interested in what we have to say about God but they highly enjoy stories from the bible (when told in modern times). I seem to have so easily forgotten what 10 and 11 year olds were like til now. Crying is a daily thing and injuries are very commen which initiates more crying. Oh those days. I love counsilling with Alycia though, she's so much fun to counsil with. Well i've got some time off right now, and then cabin time and then working in the challenge course. I have also decided that I am going to gain lots of weight from being here or become fit from walking up and down from the beach and running around playing all the games. Haha. Not sure which way it will fall :P 

When I went home on the weekend it was so great to come home for a night, but when I came back I got such a home-like feeling. Like I was coming back to my family here at camp. It's a neat feeling. 

I went to the doctor yesterday to get my leg checked out. Turns out I had a staph infection on it so I got some antibacterial cream and now I am good to go!

Well I think I am going to go and play my guitar and read the bible a bit. Please keep praying, it really does mean a lot to me! 

But I have really come to appreciate all these kids. I talk to lots of them cause tons come through the challenge course and I met lots coming over on the ferry, and just to hear some of their stories is amazing, and they are such precious individual lives. They are gods children, the sheep to the shepard. God is so amazing. I almost started crying yesterday just thinking about how great he is. 

Oh I also forgot to mention that 2 weeks ago Sid rapped to Jesus Freak! It was awesome!!

Our speaker this week is really cool! His name is Johnny Mo. 

Well I really have to go now.

God bless,

LOVELOVELOVE

Courtney

Would the wind be at my back?

So the week is finally over!! Kitchen was tons of fun, but i am so exhausted from it, and im glad the week is over. Def. had tons of fun with Jenalee and Amy! Such amazing times in there!! Haha! The work wasn't really that hard, but it was long and tedious. Haha and we were supposed to make an apple and berry crisp 2 nights ago...but we had no berries or apples. So we were told to use rhubarb and strawberries and pears. Me and Jen cut up the rhubarb and made the crisp top and she did the rest. We were stoked for the end result and we thought the campers would love it cause last week the crisp we had was soooo good! Well we watched one girl eat some of the crisp and it looked like she was experiencing death. We were like "what the heck?". Well about 10 campers came up to me and told me it the was the worst thing ever, and some staff said it was pretty nasty. We were like what the heck? So we went and tried some. It was terrible. A staff asked if there was meat in it.... It tasted rotten, it was pretty gross. We think it was cause one of the head cooks didn't add sugar...so we are blaming him for the terrible end result. But other than that the food was good. Except this one day we had mac n cheese, and i was sooo looking foward to it, but there was none left in the end...which was really sad. I won't tell who i blamed it on but ya haha. We had to wake up at 6 this morning...we were supposed to start at 6, but didn't wake up like then :P I was late, but oh well, i was exhausted. We were out on the dock last night which was fun. Haha one of the staff was walking down the dock cause he was locking up and stuff and we didn't know who it was. So we thought it was Ken Bailey and we were terrified of getting Bailey beamed (which we had also gotten a scare of earlier, cause someone saw a light coming down the stairs which made us hit the deck!!! haha). We also thought he was all white so we were like "IT'S JESUS!!!" haha. So in the end it was either Ken Bailey or Jesus. It was Kevin. haha. It was funny. And we made the water glow!! I was waving my hand through it and things were glowing! It was the most amazing thing i've ever seen!!! CRAZY!! I was there for a while :P

But the campers were crazy this week. I didn't have any but they seemed insane!! Some were pretty brutal and I think a lot of them got sent home.

Well im waiting for laura to get home, and im on her computer, and there is no Y key, so I had to press this empty spot every time i want the letter Y. And it shocked me once when i tried to press it, so im trying to use that letter the least amount that I can. I think i've been doing well haha.

It was cold for a few days at camp. Like I was wearing jeans and long sleeve in kitchen which is unheard of cause its usually super super hot in there.

Well I don't really know what else to speak of. This week was lots of fun though, i'm counsilling next week. Cabin 15! With Alycia! Im super excited, should be lots of fun, tireing probably, but im stoked. I don't know what to do right now, maybe i'll make laura a card. I am going to go now. Farewell

With love

God Bless

Courtney

So im in kitchen this week.

It's been quite the gong show so far. I washed so much fruit and vegetables yesterday, I am pretty much master at it. 8 boxes of apples, 5 boxes of peppers, 2 boxes of broccoli and 2 boxes of oranges. Yup. And it was tragic yesterday when we ran out of knives and forks for the campers, which became a mad pandemic but we had pizza so it was all good. Theres a great group of people in the kitchen I think the week will be fun. We prepped breakfast lunch and dinner yesterday which was pretty awesome so today is going to be a breeze hopefully, and we can just prep tomorrow and all that jazz. Me and Amy were serving people the food during dinner yesterday, we had  a pretty epic system going on with the pizzas, but we some how ran out of firsts, which was not good. But we got more trays which saved us. Sometimes we wonder how bad of an idea it is that we're in kitchen together. We also have some awesome singing skills in the kitchen. Random worship songs are pretty much the best.

So my shift is from 10 - 715 this week, and on friday it's from 6-1. So it's not bad at all. I can't really sleep in though cause I have to go for breakfast and staff meeting. But thats ok. I really feel like I'm serving God by being in kitchen. Like theres a real purpose to my work, it's great. Like of course you feel more direct by being a counsilor to the kids, but I just really feel good being in the kitchen too. It's pretty neat.

I slept in today, which wasn't good. I missed breakfast and staff meeting and now i'm starving.

So I am going to snag an apple or something and get going so I can start cooking some food, woot!

Oh I would also like to mention that 8 out of 9 of my girls in my cabin gave their lives to Christ! PRAISE GOD!! It was amazing. My girls were so awesome, and it was so hard to say goodbye to them, some of them were crying and it was heartbreaking! I'm going to miss them! But it was really awesome to see the fruits of my labor after.

Ok I really have to go, I start work, well, now.

Bye!

With love,

God bless

Courtney

Feels like I finally see, you've really got a hold on me

Got another 5 minutes to write a blog..i'm pretty sure eventually i won't be able to write one everyday, but ya.
I got a camp purity ring today. I already have one, but the ones they give you at camp are pretty cool. It's black and it's not metal, its kinda like a plastic, but different...its hard to explain, but i'm really stoked to have another one! I hope that maybe I can get some of my girls some time this summer to get one if I tell them why I have it and stuff. I think that would be cool.
Today was water games! Big blue and wide eyed and liquified. Big blue is a giant slip with water and soap and slide and wide eyed is a game where you have to shoot shaving cream off peoples heads and try to shoot water into either yoda or darth vader on the other team. It was tons of fun, but I was sooo cold!
Eating time is getting a little frusterating with the girls. I have one girl and she is a tank!!! Like, no joke!! I pass the food out evenly to everyone, but if I put an extra down on the table she grabs is away and scarfs it down!! She's def. well off seeing as she has enough money in her tuck account to feed all of camp for 2 weeks, but she just eats alot! Its a bit frusterating cause sometimes i've put the food down on the table for myself and I layed it there so I could help out another girl and then she eats it, but whatever, they're just kids. But my girls eat a lot generally. I barely get to eat at all cause i'm always running to get 5ths for them. Theres also like 2 or 3 of them that i'm pretty sure don't know how to chew with their mouths closed! YUCK! But again, they're just kids!
Last night was neat. We gave them the opportunity to give their lives to Christ! We didn't do the typical "Jesus, I invite you into my heart..." thing, we prayed thanking God for everything and we told the girls they could pray it to themselves, but it wasn't really inviting Jesus into the heart because Sid has been talking a lot about how becoming a follower of Christ isn't about saying the words, it's about believing it in your heart and following him in your haert and with your actions. So praise Jesus!
Theres also a really difficult girl that has been causing a lot of trouble and quarrel among the others. Me and jacqui sat to talk with her today during big blue and wide eyed, but she didn't want to talk. So I decided to leave thinking maybe she was intimidated by two counsilors, and I think that was it. I looked back and she had started talking.
Well i'm off to do a devo cause i didn't wake up early this morning for one cause i was so tired.
Please pray for me for God to help me keep my focus on him and to really connect with him. It's very tiresome out here!
Farewell, with love
God bless,
Courtney

Hola! Ha a computer again..but only for like a minute or so.

Anyway, camp is good, girls are still asking tons of questions, and today was deeper, which was praise and a bit of speaking too early this morning while all the campers were still sleeping. It was really nice. Last night was night game, space invaders! It was epic! I painted my face up and wore a neon coat and all black and it was raelly lots of fun.

Anyway, things to do! Keep praying and send me e-mails!! I wanna hear from home!!

With love,

God bless

Courtney

HA! So i managed to snag a computer once again during spare time ;)

Sly I am.

So I was a gladiator yesterday like i mentioned, and I also slept in the treehouse!! It was pretty cool! There was lots of sap everywhere and it was kinda wobbly but it was fun. The girls had sooooo many questions that were hard to answer, but we piled through them and attempted to tell our testimonies before everyone fell asleep! All they want to do is sleep! Which is nice I must say, but it leaves no room for discussion which sucks. But thats ok. Today during discussion time after Q-town they asked soooo many neat questions that most cabins havn't even touched on. Like they asked how the world was created, where God came from, about Adam and Eve and Cain and Able and how the human race was started. It was neat. 

I must go. People are patiently waiting for computers and I have things to do. Maybe go play some basketball for a bit and do a devo. 

Anyway thanks for the prayers!!

With love,

God bless

Courtney

We are hungry

Hola,
So the kids are here! They got here yesterday and they are pretty sweet!!! I am in cabin 1 (the awesome cabin clearly) with jackie who is my senior counsilor, she's super sweet. Tonight I am sleeping in the tree houses! I am so excited. We won cabin clean up so we get to sleep out there tonight! We decorated in happy birthday theme. Not sure what theme it will be tomorrow, but it will be awesome. I am on free time right now, but in like half an hour I am going to be working the challenge course! WOOT!! The weather is beautiful here right now. The wind is really chilly but it's super sunny. I also got to be a gladiator today!! I was the yellow teams (my team) mascot during All Star Games. I got to wear a toga and my face and body got painted yellow and I got a ballon sword, a sheild and an awesome helmet that has rocks glued to it. Yeah!!! It was good fun. Patty looked like a smurf! haha :P
The girls are asking tons of questions about God and Jesus, it's amazing. Already last night they were asking how Jesus saved us and today they were flooding us with questions about how God made man! It was so amazing! Praise God!! He is definatly stirring in their hearts. Please pray for the girls that God will keep their hunger for him alive as they ask omre about him. And please pray for myself and jackie that God will give us the right words to speak to the hearts of these girls.
Well I am off to do a devo then off to challenge course! Woot. Au revoir
God bless
Courtney

hosanna

So i only have about 30 seconds to write this blog but i will try. Things have been a bit tough, fitting in and all, but I know that God has led me here and that this is where I need to be. Things are going well, i'm learning challenge course right now this afternoon. The food is really good and the people are really nice, it's just so hard fitting in to the tight knit groups, but God has a plan for me. I am so excited for the children to come, it's going to be great. I've really been feeling God working in me and seeing his work around me as well. The speaker we have is amazing, his name is Sid Koop. Well I have to run now, like actually, run. Bye
God bless
Courtney

Getting ready...

I leave tomorrow! Oh my! I can't believe how fast the year has gone by. I just graduated 2 weeks ago and now i'm off to camp for the summer! I must say though, I am incredibly excited to go. God has definatly been reving me up for going to camp. I am so excited to meet all the wonderful people I will be working with and especially to be with the kids. I remember when I was about 12 i went to camp up in the okanogan (i can't spell...this will be a continuing trend I assure you) and it was so amazing. The leaders that I had and the staff were so awesome and the whole week really changed who I was. I hope to be able to provide the kids with an awesome week that they will never forget, and I hope to be able to bring them closer to Christ. I want them also to see me as an example of being on fire for God and I hope that that will inspire them to become curious about God. I will be meeting tons of different children from all different ethniticities, backgrounds and religions. I just can't wait to be doing God's work and to be his servant. But for now I have to go shopping because I don't have nearly enough stuff to get me through the summer! Mall, here I come!! Then I will packing and packing and packing.
God bless,
Courtney