Thursday 11 August 2011

I've been a busy man...

As I may have informed you guys, I was away camping last week, in a field, with approximately a thousand 11-18 year olds. Why you ask? I was at a little village by the name of Walsingham (Near Norfolk), for a shin dig known as the Walsingham Youth Pilgrimage.
It was a fantastic week! It was my fifth year going, and I can say they just get better! I always meet the most amazing people, do some amazing things, and of course, increase my faith so much more. Just before you go 'WOAH, this dude's shoving religion in ma face!' I'm not, I just thought I'd share some of my experience...

First of all, I was invited to work the camera for filming the services, which was great fun, took A LOT of concentrating, and was just a helpful learning curve.

Wielding scarily expensive equipment...
The only sad part about it, was I didn't get to feel the emotion of the services, as I was too busy concentrating on making sure I got the perfect shot...
 My group went swimming in the rain, my friend made me a balloon Giraffe, which was named Geoff, and I lost playing football, in which my team scored one goal during the whole entire tournament...

The week before, I got to help out at the kids camp at my sailing club, which was great but scary. Scary, because just the year before, I was one of the kids, running around, and generally being a nuisance, but now I was one of the people in charge, telling children off for the rules I'd broken countless times in previous years, and wierdly, being bossy to people I hang around with and consider my friends... It was great though, because I got to stay up and discover what the adults talked about after we went to bed, saw how much they drink, and got participate in conversations which I'd never thought I'd be part of.

You may have heard of the riots happening at the moment in England, the closest of which to me is in Nottingham (about half an hour on the bus...) and the actual closest thing that's happened, is a garden centre was set on fire about a mile from me.. So, obviously, it's barely effected me, but there does seem to be a lot of police officers, everywhere.

I've watched two movies in the past week;
Captain America, which was great, very action packed and mostly  sticks to the comics. I can't wait for The Avengers movie and the new Spiderman movie next year!
Horrible Bosses, is hilarious,  I've never laughed so much at a movie in a very, very long time!
Both, I recommend you guys go see.

Small announcement; I'm probably only going to be blogging at a minimum of once a month, unless something interesting happens. Please don't dislike me for it...

I have a load of Origami to catch up on, and will probably translate something interesting to French so it doesn't look like I'm slacking too much., so there probably will be another blog this month containing those...