Amazing weekend!!

I am chillin' at the 'brary avoiding work for the time being just thinking about what a fantastic weekend I had. The retreat was unbelievable. I think that the reason that the retreat was so awesome was because of the team we had. Even though I love Jessica to pieces, I was a little worried about us being on the team together. I was afraid that I wouldn't get the chance like I did last year to branch out and make new friends with the other team members. Boy was I wrong. Although Schalk and I did have our moments where we weren't mingling with others, for the most part I hung out with a ton of different people. I was a little disappointed that I didn't get to hang out with Fay that much because I seldom see him anymore, but it's cool. I got a lot closer to Bosse who is so one of my most favorite people. He is an incredible guy to know and I'm really looking forward to him hanging out with us more (I even made it into his 4th Day Talk...granted he was flirting with me, but I couldn't complain :o) Tons of the team members want to come to my birthday party and I am totally psyched about that. The seniors were awesome too, although they had a little harder time concentrating than the other retreats I've been on. My small group was so cool. I totally adored all of them and it was cool that they kept wanting to go back into the small groups. My talk went pretty good and although I was so incredibly nervous (shocker, huh??) I was told that I didn't look nervous at all. It was probably the first time, I almost completely gave a witness TALK and not a witness READ. People kept coming up to me and telling me that they really admired me and my personality which was extremely cool. I had so much fun, it's hard to tell all the stuff that I enjoyed. I took like 40 pictures and I can't wait to get them developed. I know that I'm still on that "retreat high" but it's ok, hopefully I'll still have this feeling for awhile. I know that it'll help if I get to continue to hang out with team and get to be closer to them even more. I think I've got Bosse convinced to hang out with us in the 'brary. Our old people were frickin' awesome too. Each and every one of them made me feel special in a unique way and I'm lucky to have met each and every one of them. (Even if some of them were a little dirty...cough cough...Mike...cough cough...."If it were my leg, I would've let her continue on for like five minutes before telling her she could stop."... "Hey Jessica, do you know what an extremely satisfied guy says after sex? (Schalk): "No, what?" (Mike): "I didn't think so.") Oh wow those guys are frickin' hilarious and I'm so very glad that God put them in my life. More fun stuff about retreat: the quick hump, Brett farting in church-twice, Ray's stupid jokes, Ryan hiding under the alter in the blue room and giving away his hiding spot b/c he farted, me hiding in Schalk's room and the list goes on and on and on...I'm so thankful for the opportunity I had to be apart of team. I love each and every one of those guys and really hope that I can stay in contact with them this year. Thanks God for an awesome weekend and not too many tears!!