Immerse Day One

I started off my day by getting up at seven (never a fun thing) and singing along to mah ipod while getting on my shoes. It's glitchy, cuz it was a refurb. So one of the four songs I put on my 'wake up' playlist (aka, my top rated, so I can easily set the alarm to them and change them on the ipod instead of having to sync to the computer) didn't play. I went down, and ate a cinnamon roll.... which was sweet... and um, sugar is not my favorite breakfast food, at least not when I get up early and/or have to ride in the car after that. Then I ate some pineapple for fruit. I should have eaten it first cuz I got full and it was healthier. Then I got in the car. We picked Emma up and discovered that John the Baptist has short hair in my manga bible. Gasp. Somebody didn't do their research. hehe. Anyway, then we dropped Justin off at church and then drove to AHOP. We were an hour early, so me and Emma sat around while Bethany, Callie, and Micah prepared their prayer time leading stuff for the day. Then we played dodgeball (not dodgeball, foursquare, what was I thinking?) with Callie and some kids that I don't know. We had to do a 'jester dance' when we got in the 4th square (the bottom square). I did the caramelldansen. :3
After that, people started coming and I got SUPER hyper. I dubbed a certain chair the 'king chair' and whoever sat in it was king. I was king for a while but I got bored of not being near my subjects and felt all lonely so I went and sat with Joseph and Callie and Bethany. On the cool couch :)
We all told our names, ages, schools, and favorite Amy's ice cream flavor. There were some old friends from last year, some people from youth group, and a few new people I hadn't met before.
Then we played a would you rather game. Some of them were annoying. Because given a choice between a tattoo or a piercing, I'd really rather go live in a cave.
Then we had some prayer time, where we thanked God for stuff, and praised Him through the alphabet (starting with P) and gave up things that were hindering us from getting close to God. and then we went to goodwill. it took me forEVER to find a shirt, and I ended up getting a short sleeve hoodie thing instead. Oh well. :)
I got tater tots at sonic, and a jr burger thingy... and a cherry limeade. YUMMM....
we went back, we ate, we played chief... haha.... that was fun. I guessed right on my very first try, cause, i guess I have good hearing. I heard the first clap. and the direction. from behind me! :)
We had prayer time again, and we all prayed for the person on our left! And we prayed our gifts over everyone else. Then we had a teaching from Matt about Intimacy with God. I took a lot of notes. :)
Then we learned ways to behold God through reading the Bible and praying and journaling.
Then I got VERY tired. I guess getting up at seven kicked in. I sat around a bit, and played one game of ninja, but my mom was waiting for me, so I had to go.
Thank God, I don't have to get up that early tomorrow. Emma's mom is driving, which means we're not tied to the schedule of dropping Justin off at nine. Which means, more sleepytime for Clairey. :DD
I think my favorite part about today, was seeing how much I've changed in the last year. I still remember some of how I was last year at Immerse. I've gone from the shy, anti-social almost invisible girl, to someone who really participates and stuff, and my favorite part is that I'm able to listen to God more easily, something with which I struggled up until January of this year.
Isn't God amazing?