Seth Kinast’s Blog

Today was mostly uneventful. Got up at 6:15, took a shower in the Shower-That-Has-Only-Two-Settings (uber-cold and scaldingly hot) -and-That-Also-Has-No-Walls-Only-Curtains-Separating-Stalls. It’s the only way to describe them :p

We had a morning speaker from True Lies who was really good (he also mentioned XXXChurch, the Internet’s largest Christian pr0n site, quite a few times). In the afternoon we heard from Voice of the Martyrs, and in the evening some guy named Josh spoke. Great Laura Pechawer quote #1:

1/4 of all people at CIY are named Josh. That includes guys and girls.

We have four Joshes just in our youth group :p

One 5 Oh just isn’t quite up to par for CIY. They’re too… old school. And they can’t keep the same musicians for more than a year. Great Laura Pechawer quote #2:

…the ever-evolving One 5 Oh, who *try* really hard at least…

But it’s all good, the worship and experience is still awesome.

A kid got hurt really badly tonight playing Buk Buk. For the uninitiated, Buk Buk consists of one team bending over in a line, and the other team runs and jumps on top of them one at a time until someone falls off. This makes for… interesting looking pictures. Laura Pechawer quote #3:

Buk Buk? Ohhh, you mean the Groping Game!

But anyway, a little bitty incoming freshman was in the line, and this huge guy came and vaulted three people to land square on the little guy’s back. He broke something; hard to tell what. The ambulance came and put him on a backboard, so I hope it’s not anything too serious like a broken back.

With my Mountain Dew, I’m good to go, so I’ll be able to get up in the morning. The weather in Adrian is fantastic; after I figured out how to close the window, I slept great.

We left yesterday at around 11:15 for Adrian, MI, where the youth group is attending a CIY conference. We drove for 10 hours from Joplin northeast to Indianapolis, where we spent the night. We kept having to stop (4 or 5 times in all) to make sure the bus wasn’t breaking down… it’s a really old bus, and the oil pan has loose bolts that keep coming off. Every hundred miles or so, we stopped for a quick oil pan check. But everything was pretty uneventful yesterday. I played Hearts and Monopoly and worked on the Common Grounds website for Josh. And listened to a LOT of music… I love my Bose headphones! (Everyone else did too )

I shared a bed with Joey Garnett… he swore he “slept like a rock,” so I hoped for an uneventful night. We watched True Lies with Arnold Schwarzenegger until 1:00 in the morning :p I love watching those old blow-up-everything movies! But then came bedtime, and after shoving a sleeping Joey off of me twice in the first hour, I began to see that Joey was not the rock he claimed to be. By 3:00, I had awakened twice… on the floor. Joey thrashes. And Josh snores. I didn’t sleep much. But then, I had set my alarm for 5:45 to wake Joey (he can’t wake up by an alarm) and I told him to wake me up when he got out of the shower. Long story short, he didn’t, I overslept and got no breakfast and was cranky for a couple hours