All i can taste is the moment...and all i can breath is your life...

Lyrics from Isis by the Goo Goo Dolls, what an amazing song. Anyone seen Ronan Keating's new version of it? In my opinion he sings it pretty well but after seeing his video for the second time, i realised it was actually pretty gay and i now have a lower opinion of it. Funny how a video can just make a song what it is isn't it?
For example...that song a few years ago, the one by Shaggy...can't even remember what it was called but it became really popular amongst lots of different people because of the video being so class.

Since France i've gotten really into the Red Hot Chili Peppers (and yes i know how to spell it now). In our car, the citroen, woo! We had the CD on a lot, i think it was greatest hits, so obviously, a lot of good songs. It was class. Then one horrific day we went to play it and found to our great dismay that it was GONE! -_-! Hmm...turns out that the asessor Stephan had stolen it back because it was actually his CD or something, we were most distressed. The good Eagles CD was taken too...-_-...no more listening to Hotel California, which is pretty good. A line that Emma C is currently using as her MSN name from it "some dance to remember, others dance to forget"...or at least i think that's the line...something similar anyways.... :S

Realised that i haven't actually talked much about France in the blog here, so will do a bit now.

First of all, we arrived in France, to a thunderstorm, not to pleasant. It was really humid and we already felt gross from all the travelling, never mind adding humidity to the equation. We got to the cars before the rain started, luckily enough because when it rains in France, it rains. Over here the rain may last all day but it's still just a drizzel...in France, the rain is really heavy and you'd get soaked right through if you stayed in it for too long.
The next day we had to do our acclimatization walk...it started nice and we were all enjoying ourselves. However, we got to a forest at one point in the walk and got lost...a thunderstorm started. Dunno if anyone has ever experienced a thunderstorm in France but they're a hell of a lot scarrier than the ones here. The thunder is louder and the lightning flashes come a lot more frequently. Prehaps it was the fact that we were in a forest at the time of the storm was the reason it seemed scarrier.
When you're a little kid, you learn "never take shelter under a tree in a thunderstorm", seriously, all little children know that. And where were we? In a bloody forest! Not to pleasant i assure you. And the fact that i was wearing my "waterproof" coat didn't help me much, as it does a pathetic attempt at keeping rain out....didn't end up being too miserable though, very surprisingly.

We started the expedition the next day, which a lot of people weren't too fussed on doing because there were more thunderstorms forcasted, however we did and i'm glad of it because the weather the next day was great.
I can't actually remember most of the actual expedition..i just remember there being a few deadly climbs here and there. The start of the second day was pure evil. We spent the whole morning climbing up this massive mountain and then when you think that you've reached the top...there's another bit to climb...don't you just hate when that happens?
Oo i forgot to mention the best part of the expedition. On the end of the first day, we got to visit a sheep museum! :D...i kid you not...a museum in this little village dedicated to the history of their sheep and cows, there was even a movie...which wasn't acutally too bad, it was just the fact that we all got to bed after 11 the night before and had to be up for 5 or something equally rediculous, that everyone fell asleep. Oops is all that can be said. The assessor Stephan got annoyed at us...

By the third day, we were all in that, "i don't care" sort of mood and we took breaks every 15mins or so...we were all just being incredibly lazy..it was like that on our 3rd day in the Mournes too. You just feel that "eugh, i still have another day left after this! What's the point in rushing??"...so we didn't go too quickly that day.
We reached the end of the route card quickly enough though and did as it told us and waited at the Y-junction for the leaders to appear. We waited...waited some more...began to get just a tad fustrated. There was also noone answering us on the radio. Since we had nowhere to go and nothing to do, we all tryed to get some sleep, most people did fall asleep, i tried but couldn't...twas annoying. Hmm i remember using Stephan as a pillow, cause his arm was keeping me warm, as it was getting kinda cold just sitting on top of a mountain with cold wind blowing over from the glacial lakes.
We got into contact with Darius after about 2 1/2 hours or so and he informed us that assessor Stephan had met them and told them they were camping by the glacial lakes. So Stephan asked him "so we're camping by the big glacial lakes?" and Darius said Roger that. So off we went up there.
The glacier was cold and not very exciting and occasionally we heard loud cracks and rocks went slidding into the lake. We stayed there for ages and it was boring, we were cold, hungry and exhausted..none of us were in too good a mood and water supplies were running low. Thing is about in the Alps, you can't drink the water form the rivers there because there's some bacteria in it that purification tablets cant' kill and the water up by the glacier has too many minearls in it and because we're not used to it, it'd just make us sick.
We got into contact with Darius again after a bit and found out where the campsite actually was. By the time we actually got there, we had wasted 4 1/2 hours -_-, noone was too happy at all. So when the leaders, Michael and Raymond came down in a bit, we yelled at them a lot. Noone was too happy at assessor stephan at all. The other group, who were soo much slower had been told where to go and had been given water! And apparantly we didn't get these privledges because we were "too fast"..pftt my ass...we were right on time! -_-

Enough of the expedition though. I'm going to have to write about it in my dk of ed diary anyway, so there's no point just having to rewrite everything.

Meh i couldn't really be bothered writing too much more on France. I've talked about the rest of it enough to everyone now anyway. Best activity was the white water rafting, that's all you need to know lol. Ohh and the fact that we went ice climbing, up a glacier, that actually looks like one lol.

Ohh and yesterday i thought that i should look back and see when my blog's birthday is, so i did this morning and it turns out that it's today! :D so happy birthday bloggy! lol
And so i know anyone who read this borthered to read to the end, say happy birthday to the blog if you're commenting, which you should be doing if you're reading! :P

over and out!

We're still so young and desperate for attention..

Well to demand i'm updating lol. I did try to a few days ago but just as i'd started the summer madness part, my dad came in and demanded the computer, i was most put out -_-.

But anyways, time to get started for i haven't updated in quite a while and i've been doing a lot since then.

Firstly, summer madness. It was amazing. There was a few 1000 people there, so you can just imagine the atmosphere in the worship. They had these really popular christian bands (in the christian world i'm assuming because i'd never heard any of their songs before lol) playing, they were both really good. One was called Johny Parks and the others name i can't remember but i do remember thinking he reminded me a lot of Beulah's brother for some reason.
There was a lot of action in the worship, like when the music would start getting louder and/ or faster, people would start jumping up and down. The reason they did that was for pure happiness after being filled with the Holy Spirit or because they were trying to reach out to God - the latter being what i think the sticking your arm up means. Something i do not do. The jumping however i did, that was just fun, getting into the music and stuff and really just getting pretty damn hyper lol.

I was talking to a lot of people that normally i wouldn't talk to that much and met a few new people as well. One of the new people i met was Vicki Foye's brother who really is nothing like her at all. He's really quiet for one thingand you'd kinda expect him to maybe be into his appearance a lot but he's not, he was walking round in tracksuit bottoms. He's really nice.
I also hung out with Craig and Maxwell as well, who are really dead on guys and i like them both a lot. One night me, Nicci, Craig and Maxwell started talking in Irish accents and then Craig got out his guitar and we walked around the place singing songs from worship. It was named an Irish guitar walk lol...was quite interesting.
One day, Allie and Amy both came down and that was pretty cool. Allie came down earlier, so we hung out for a lot of the afternoon and i attended my first and only debate at summer madness. It was something about "all F-ing swearing is wrong". So a pastor ended up being "This house believes that not all F-ing swearing is wrong", so it was actually quite interesting the things he said to justify himself, being a Christian leader and all. His house actually ended up wining in the end, though it was a close call. Though i didn't necassarily agree with the things he said, he put his points through clearly and they were clearly well thought out, so i thought he deserved my vote. A lot of other people must've felt the same way.

On the last night of worship, the speaker guy told people to stand up for some reason (can't remember what) but he encouraged people to pray for them. There was a girl infront of our group standing up and noone had gone to her, so Iona suggested me and her go pray for her. So we were moving in that direction, when Emma Cook started crying. Scared me a bit. So we prayed for her and it turns out, she's decided to accept Christianity and is on her way to becoming a Christian. You honestly wouldn't believe how happy we all were, everyone is hugging each other, i was near in tears, Nicci actually was...waoh, what a class night.
Dez seemed a little scared by it all..he was kinda standing awkwardly off to the side, not really wanting to get involved with the crazy group of girls that he was with lol.

All the summer madness pictures from my camera are up on my bebo page, so go look and see the fun that we all had lol.

Going to go get my lunch now, so will write up France at a different stage.

Over and out!