Last night was Bethel Baptist School’s Spring Festival 2009.  It was a blast.  We had a 30 ft. inflatable slide,  a jump house, a splash zone, can knock down, ping pong ball toss, dunk tank, and a ton of food.  I was asked to volunteer for the dunk tank, so why not…  just 15 minutes…  It was pretty fun.  I had told my class all week to be saving up there money to get me wet. At least 8 of my students tried to dunk my and several went 4 and 5 times if not more.  I did the first 15 minutes of the festival just to get it done with; but I had a blast.  Once I was out of the water I was helping supervise the dunk tank.  About 2 hours later there was an empty block so I jumped in it again for another 15 minutes.  My students all came running back to dunk me.  This time I didn’t get dunked for like the first 10 minutes. still had fun though.  One seventh or eight grader who had been trying to get people dunked all day, got up to try and get me in.  I told him if he missed with all his throws I would jump in… so I had to jump in. after his third miss.  By the end of the day, I was tired and exhausted.  We went home; I forced myself to stay awake until the Giants had finished their games, beating the D-backs 5-1. And then Sleep.

Today is an event I have been looking forward to for nearly two months. Are youth group is having a “Iron Chef” style of event.  We’ll meet at the church around noon.  Pastor Matt will let us know the secret ingredient, and then we have about 3 hours to go shopping, go to our designated kitchen and make 4 courses which each contain the secrete ingredient.  After the time is up we meet back at the church and have potluck with the prepared dishes.  Each dish is judged by everyone and the group with the most points wins.  I will probably write tomorrow to let you all know how it went.  Complete with picture I hope.

- hold nothing back

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