What We Live For....And A Little Bit of Dancing aka Lots of Dancing in Between

So today's VBS attendance was in decline because it was raining pretty hard some of the time. We had 53 on Tuesday and only around 30ish today, but it was still lots of fun. We sang songs at the beginning and sung songs like I Wanna Be Like Daniel...who would have thought that a VBS song could give you that much of a workout?? I mean you do about 20 squats at a very fast pace. We also learned Ish Conbie Conductor..(totally misspelled) for all of you fellow Blue Haven goers. They really liked it a lot!!! We then talked about patience with the story of Abraham waiting for a child. They got to make paper clocks and also we played the quiet game. Melinda and I would go around to the children and make funny faces and noises. My personal favorite was my pig, monkey, and chicken noises. I got lots of kids out with those. We then gave the kids the wonderful Tootsie Roll Pops and they had to be patient and not bite but just lick. One kid tried to count how many licks it took to get to the center...not really. We then talked about Faithfulness and we laid out beans and leaves and the kids had to go and pick up the leftovers like Ruth did. They then made really cute Welcome signs. Then came the only kind of stressful part. We were trying to play a game where 2 kids are back to back and there was a b-ball in between their back and they had to go from point A to point B. The problem was trying to get the teams even. It was like we were speaking a different language..oh yeah we were. But everything was ok.

We then got our bags because we were invited to play Volleyball. We changed and the neatest thing was that the picture frames we made on Monday were up in their living room proudly. Wait it gets even better...The other crafts we have made were taped up on the wall of one of the rooms. It was just really neat to see how they showed off the stuff we had made at VBS. Usually as I remember when I was a little girl we would just hang stuff on the fridge for like a week but then it would be thrown in the trash. What I'm trying to say was that it was neat. Then I had to go to the bathroom...very interesting they did have a toilet, but no seat and there was a string to flush it. I had to get Tofoi to help me learn how to flush it. Then we were home again on the court. We hadn't touched a volleyball since Spring Intramurals. So we were a little rusty, but they were impressed I think...but the Samoans were very good as well. We won like 3 games in a row, but then the big shots came...The boys/men that were amazing!!! So we didn't win after that. It started raining (this is rain that is not just a sprinkle but a good solid rain), but they said to keep playing so when Melinda and I both tried to set and the ball went straight through our hands. We got laughed at pretty hard, but I didn't feel terrible because they would laugh at anyone when they would mess up Polongi: White Person or not. The guys were so good...It seemed like an Olympic Preview..I'm only exaggerating just a tad really they were all college v-ball material. I have to say there was one time that I just had to dive and remind you we were playing on cement I fell pretty hard and got a pretty sweet banged up knee to show for it. Then to top it off I dove one more time. I was then forced to go clean up and they put Baby Oil on my wound then it was back to the court for me. We then watched the guys play some more...SOO FUN!! Even if you don't like Volleyball or sports in general...you would have liked watching this. Yes I know that's a strong comment.

Since we were soaked they wanted us to change clothes they thought we would get sick because it was so cold let me remind you that the weather gets nowhere less than 75 degrees F. So they gave us all lava lavas that we got to keep and then it was time to watch the girls practice their dance that they will perform on Friday. The Samoan dance is very graceful it was beautiful to watch. Myself on the other hand would be the opposite of graceful, which would be awkward, stiff, and silly looking. They practiced for lets say 5 minutes and then they pulled us up and said that it was our turn. I was like Whoaa this was supposed to be dance practice for ya'll...apparently I was wrong. We had to learn this dance and we all got private instructors...there was 2 girls helping me Tofoi and Nai. We then after 30 minutes learned the routine and then performed in front of everyone. Embarrassing, yes, but fun, yes. We then did the whole cycle over again with Tahitian style dancing, which is all about the hips darling.. Then Luuao had got us McDonalds for lunch while we had been dancing...he's like one of the only ones with a car in the NuuUli village. And guess what??? Give up ok I guess I'll tell you. Melinda and I both ate a Big Mac with lettuce, yes I'll repeat LETTUCE!! We have tried lots of new foods so lettuce was not that bad. Then it was back to dancing...we got to do the Cha Cha slide which was fun since it was a dance that I did know. We then danced until it was time for church we approximately danced for at least a good 2 1/2 hours no joke non-stop. Fun filled with laughter and might I add pain. We are now sore all over but I must say it was definitely worth it and we got an invitation to do it all over again tomorrow...so we'll see what Thursday has in store...

p.s. i'm tired so sorry if stuff doesn't make sense...