Convention 08 - closing

by Nina

So basically Convention was a blast from the past. I know many of these fond memories will stick with me forever and I hope that is the case for everyone who came to Convention this year. I would also like to thank Susannah Currie for sponsoring me and Kurt Fekete for supervising us and everyone else who worked hard to put on this Convention. And I reallyyyy hope I’ll be able to make the next one!

Convention 08 - Day 4

by Nina

Day 4:

The fourth day of Convention was definitely the best day. We all took the train out to Harvard Square in Cambridge, Mass. We went shopping around town, and ate dinner at this Mexican/ Seafood restaurant [Border Café] that played country music and served outrageously huge drinks. After dinner we walked around for a bit and then went to church. Then we went to this after party type thing where they served cheese and crackers that actually tasted more like croutons. That was a lot of fun. Especially getting piggy back rides around the yard and singing a whole new world with MB. I also enjoyed throwing the light-up Frisbee around while waiting for the bus to come. And the bus ride home was insanely fun! MB, Holly and I sang songs from “Across the Universe” and various Disney classics the whole time. Except not really the whole time. Because we stopped when Janice started playing her new Rilo Kiley CD which I’m totally gonna download. And since it was the last night a bunch of us tried to stay up all night and I believe Sam, Matt, Josh, Nemo, MB, Janice, Holly, and I (sorry if I left anyone out) succeeded.

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Convention 08 - Day 3

by Nina

Day 3: On the third day of Convention we did our worship service in front of everyone! I think it went very well. I’d say the best parts were Cassie’s depressing scripture reading, Molly, Kate, and Nemo’s skit, Janice, Cody, and MB’s amazing performance of Janice’s original song, and of course Marybeth’s incredible solo. I’ll admit I got a little teary eyed during that part. Oh and of course when Cody got everyone to chant “LIVE YOUR LOVE! LIVE YOUR LOVE!” and we all fell down! I think we pretty much exceeded everyone’s expectations. Go us! It was also the Fourth of July so after the worship service us patriotic ones changed into our red, white, and blue outfits/ fireworks shorts. After lunch some of us went to the movies and others went to Plymouth Rock. I went with the movie group to go see Wall-E. It was surprisingly deep for a computer-animated Disney movie. I enjoyed it quite a bit. Upon returning we had a barbeque, tossed around the Frisbee, and a bunch of us learned some crazy conta-dancing moves! That was a definite highlight for me. Then we sat on top of the hill and watched fireworks that were partially obstructed by trees and buildings but were still super-exciting! And wayyyy later that night at like 2:00am Holly and I decided to give Cody a makeover! So we French braided his hair and did his makeup and painted his nails and made him wear my pink dress and furry purple flip flops! It was quite the sight so we paraded him around the campus only to find that everyone had gone to bed! It was very upsetting. But then we did it again the next day when everyone was still awake and Matt let us give him a makeover too so.. it all worked out pretty well.

Convention 08 - Day 2

by Nina

Day 2:

The second day of Convention was pretty much a planning day. It was also the day me and Janice decided to wear our super-exciting matching outfits! So.. we spent most of the day planning what we were going to do for our worship service. I thought this was a lot funner than lectures and classes because we got to do the talking and we could be creative and inventive and we didn’t just have to sit there and listen to other people talk the whole time. And besides that we played a lot of pool and ping pong and foozeball and Cody and Holly taught me how to play Set which turned out to be an amazingly fun game. Oh! We also played a really intense game of Ultimate Frisbee. We lost even though we had Kurt on our team (who is amazing at Ultimate Frisbee) but it was really close and reallyyyy fun.

Convention 08 - Day 1

by Nina

Day 1:

The first day of Convention happened to fall on my sixteenth birthday which made it even more exciting! It was a good birthday. I got to meet new people and see friends I hadn’t seen since memorial day! And there was a pool table! Holly and I played against Cody and Jake (who I actually thought was Sam at the time) and we lost but it was a fun time. We also learned about the theme (Shout!) and started brainstorming for our worship service.