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This year, getting to Eastercamp was so much easier than in previous years. We simply turned up at Lincoln Highschool, got yelled at by Marie for a bit as she tried to sort us all out, hopped on the buses and then got registered and banded (green for leaders, orange for kids, clear for volunteers, red for staff) on the way to Spencer Park. On arriving there, we just had to collect our stuff and go straight to our campsite. So much easier than the several hour long line we had to wait in last year!
I don't believe the Thursday night was too eventful; I can't really remember anything huge from then. It went well, though, and I started straight into learning everyone's name (at LBY) and tried to find the campsites of other people I knew. Pretty much everyone was in bed by 12:30am camp time (11:30pm real time) and then Friday started.
We had a touch competition on the Friday, which Lincoln participated in but did not even get through to the semi-finals. The rules were 'two girls, only one leader' and at one point we had only one female youth, so I had to play wearing my hoodie so no one could see I was a leader. All good fun. The weather was wonderful and most people were wandering around wearing t-shirts and shorts -- including me, which was surprising. LBY had so much space this year that we had the room to put a volleyball net up and we spent a lot of time playing volleyball; sometimes Every Nation, who were situated just across the road, came over to play with us. At the Big Top Meeting, I looked after Laura and Justin Duckworth spoke about some stuff; all I can remember is a story about an annoying young boy he was a leader for when he was seventeen whose birthday he went to and that he was the only guest at. After that, Lucy and I went to the Groove Room and danced a bit. I volunteered to stay up later on Friday night to make sure everyone went to their tents and went to sleep, which was a very easy job except that I had to ask some guys from two other churches to stop talking because they were disturbing our girls.
On the Friday night I spent most of the Big Top Meeting with Laura because she had seen an ex-boyfriend and was very worked up about it. Danielle Strickland, the speaker, made an analogy using a dream she had about being bitten by a big, fat, venomous spider and then lying down and becoming paralysed while tiny little spiders came to devour her body while she could do nothing about it; she used that story to illustrate how sin makes us powerless to overcome the tiny little spiders eating us alive. At the end of the talk she asked those who wanted to wake up and squash those spiders to stand. Laura stood, so afterwards I prayed with her and then we chatted and read the Bible and I asked her to make some commitments about a problem she had and we will come back to it in a few days.
On Saturday it was nice and sunny again and we played in the soccer competition -- again, not making it through to the semi-finals. We did have fun, though.