Some of you might know, others might not, but this week, Ive been helping out at my church’s Vacation Bible School, which is a program for Children to learn about God and just to have fun in general (and a week that parents dont have to worry about in terms of figuring out what their kids will do). They had a Science/Laboratory/Chemistry like theme this year and thier “job titles” were all witty things related to the topic. Im not sure why, but my job title was “Lab Security”, even though I did nothing but move boxes inside and outside for them and just basically helped out wherever I saw a need. I concluded that it was just a creative way to say “We have nothing better for you to do” and Im fine with that. It gives me a lot more freedom and more importantly, I dont have to worry about the troublesome kids (2 years ago, I yelled at kids a lot just cause my group was highly dysfunctional) xD.

Anyways, so today, mother nature was acting up and for some reason, it was unbelievably windy (Vancouver is almost never windy except for occasional blows and even then, it never happens in the summer). It was totally unexpected and the poles of some of the tents that were setup blew off. So what do they have the “Lab Security” dude do? Why, hold down the poles of the tent to make sure it doesnt fly off (and of course keep it up so it doesnt hurt kids). They were planning to pin down the tents so they went out to get equipment to hold the tent down (buckets to fill with water and elastic rope to tie it down). So I spent 1 hour today standing out in the windy temperature hanging onto some poles to make sure a tent didnt fly away. So 1 hour later ,they come back with the buckets and rope and we fortify the tents.

What happens? Two other tents blow over (We had 5 tents in total) so in the end, we end up taking down the tent I spent an hour keeping up >_> along with the other tents (I was for taking the tent down all along but the admin was like “We need to keep it up for the carnival tomorrow”).

Overall, I was not happy…I didnt mind doing it… I just didnt see the point in it…especially when the obvious solution was so obvious (at least to me). Oh well, hopefully it wont be as windy tomorrow. In case anyone is wondering, the wind was apparently so bad, it blew out the electricity in half of Vancouver and two of the surrounding cities (I live in the West side of Vancouver so I wasnt effected… yay for living close to rich people >_>). The church didnt run out of power, we just ended up shutting kids inside for the whole day, rofl. That and it was a pain in the ass trying to move tables inside because it was so windy (I almost got blown over cause the tables got caught in the wind).

Oh well, one more day of VBS. Im going to be at church all day tomorrow so… yeah. July 11th tomorrow. Visit your 7/11’s for free slurpies! (For those wondering, I really havent been on MS all week… VBS has me too tired and drained to feel like shark hunting for SE 20, lol).

Jackk

Ps…

Computer still isnt here. I think Im going to send Nexon an email asking about it.