Confession or Encouragement! Or Both!

Okay, so as mentioned in a previous post, I'm part of the Activities Committee and on Friday, we put together a bonfire! There is this giant (and I mean really giant) bonfire pit on campus that we wanted to make use of. We had everything ready.....wood, lighter, chocolate/marshmallows/graham crackers.....BUT we didn't test out the fire pit before hand and just assumed it would work fine. Well, we tried to get the fire a goin' but initially had a lot of trouble making the fire. It's been raining so the firepit and the wood in it and such were all too wet to hold a good fire. Some of the boys worked really hard to get it going and while we waited, we spontaneously started doing trust falls!

You'll remember that I said this was a giant firepit, so the sides of it stood about 4 feet high. Well some people were up there standing on it, and others were down below. One of the boys, Logan, looked down at us standing below and said something about wanting to crowd dive, and everyone basically said "Go for it!" So, we all stuck our arms out and told him to do it more like a trust fall: Turn around and slowly fall back onto us and trust us to cath him. Chelsea had the bright idea of making him tell a confession before he fell (She got the idea from Mean Girls, so if you've seen that movie, you know what I'm talking about! ). He went ahead and told his confession and fell! We caught him, dont worry. But, after that, Alex went. Then I went. Then EVERYONE went! Honestly I wish I had a video of that night, IT WAS SO FUN! We would pick out someone we wanted to go and start chanting their name - literally the whole group would chant their name and we must have done around 40 times. We were all basically at the bonfire and there's 53 of us. Hearing everyone's confession was hilarious! Here were some of the highlights as far as confessions....

Logan: "I download lost every week and that's why the internet broadband is so slow!"
Tanya: "One time, I did a workout video in the prayer chapel!"
Daniele: "I've stolen cookie dough from the kitchen more than once!"
Jake: "I still don't know everyone's name!"
Tony: "I still sleep with a baby blanket! and it's pink! and I'm a boy."
Allie: "I have 5 bags of flaming hot cheetos hidden in my chalet!"
Staci: "My confession is, my mom really does have it going on!"


Such a great great night! My confession was picked for me before I could really think about it. Tanya shouted, "Come clean about how you sleep with your eyes open!"
Okay, so, truth time: SOMETIMES, i sleep with my eyes half open. This is not something I usually tell people because I find it kinda creepy and embarassing but whatevs. Now you all know! My lovely roomie figured out this hidden talent of mine on the second night here. It's pretty funny now :)

Those are some of the best pics, even though there were so many good ones! After the trust falls, the fire was going and we had a wonderful rest of the night around the campfire, with s'mores ( we roasted our mallows on real pieces of branch! haha), and singing along with Emily and Jon's playing of guitar and drum. A very good night.