Harvest :D

Strangely I awoke today wondering why the walls of my room were solid and not moving with the wind. I decided I will blog it in a day by day style like I did before with one of my blogs XD Mainly so I don't miss anything out.


Wednesday

When we first arrived we had to set up our tents and I believe out of our group I may have been last to succeed in this... or definetely close to last. We had the BIG launch at 3pm which was mostly games to win our village points and information on the week ahead. This ended at 3:45.
During the 3 hours we had to kill until the main event Queen Green made rules up. This involved No thinking of Elephants, No killing, No dying, Clapping when Fiona said something clever, Telling Hannah we loved her when she asked for attention amongst many others.
The main event (6:45-9) was awesome XD The Steels who I saw at Light Water Valley played first which was cool and Yfriday followed. I looked forward to Yfridays performance everyday, mostly because I knew the songs and enjoyed them.
Throughtout the week you could text in shout outs and 2 involving our church got shown. 1 from me which was a shout out to our very shouty washing up team consisting of Hannah, James, Luke and myself (although I didn't really shout). The second we later discovered was sent in by Will which said ''Will you marry me James Hedges?''.
The bands were followed by games. Dave Newton was the speaker and spoke about how God is unbelievably big and stressed the importance of how awesome he is.
In the after hours, me, Esther and Luke watched Up which was being shown in the barn.
After this we all sat and talked in the kitchen tent until sometime after midnight until we all went to bed.

Thursday

We all woke up relatively early the next day. I was rather cold but this helped me decide how many layers I need to keep warm so I didn't mind too much. We had breakfast about 8ish and Andy our village chief shouted to wake James up.
We went to high fibre, the morning service, at 10:15. The guy called Peter who played the music was good and Gav Calver was speaking everyday for the older group which was good because I has heard him speak before at Unite and learnt from him. He was also quite funny.
After dinner Esther, Luke and I went to a mission trip called Hope. During this we left site to a church about 20 minutes away. We decorated cakes and handed them out in a box of 5 to the local community for free. This laster just over 2 hours before we were took back to camp in time for tea.
The evening service was at the same time but with the Naughty Vicars as the opening act. The bassist from the Steel played with Yfriday because their bassist couldn't make it. I was in pain through the service but still enjoyed it despte spending most of it in my seat. Ruth Valerio who talked about worship being a choice.
I went to bed early so missed the after hours events :P

Friday

I woke up at a time I thought was late in comparrsion to the previous day. I went to the prayer meeting (9 - 9:30) which was different to what I expected, I guess I expected more to be attending than did. When we split into small groups to prayer I was with a group of lads I didn't know but they were nice and introduced themselves and we prayed for one another.
We Gav Calver spoke again in the morning and after dinner we went to Hope again and handed out more cakes. We were given a box to keep too and so we named them. Mine were called Chris, John, James, Jane and Igorilla. Hannah's were Naomi, Ezekiel, Tom, Ruth and (forgot last one, Hannah if you read this comment with name XD).
Phillipa Hanna was the opening act on Friday and was a lot better than I had expected. Ben Jack, who hosted in the morning service and is a radio DJ (Galactus Jack) talked about when worship hurts and when we may struggle to worship.
In the after hours, Carl, Luke and myself visited the comedy lounge which was very misleading due to it not being funny XD The band were funnier than the comedian. We left shortly after and wandered around before going to bed.

Saturday

Many people came from the church on Saturday. This made playing Ninja more fun as playing ninja had become a daily activity of ours (I was seen as an easy player to get out and I can't deny this). I was also impressed with Andy's chess playing skills as he managed to beat Carl without looking at the board.
After morning service, instead of going to hope we decided to go to a seminar. Although there were many jokes about going to the homosexuality seminar, many of us attended :P It was interesting, it covered many issues and not just homosexuality.
The last evening service was amazing. the bandwithnoname played first and although it is by far not the style of music I personally enjoy, it did make us all very energetic. Yfriday again were amazing and Gav Calver spoke about Jesus being the centre of worship.
Harvest's Got Talent was shown in the after hours. Although I disagree with the performance of Moon Chavs being the best, they won. Crackers was hillarious for unknown reasons yet I laughed all the way through it and cheered them for eating crackers very casually on stage. The audience seemed to have ben looking forward all year for it XD.

Sunday

I enjoyed the morning service with Chris Rogers as the speaker. Yfriday played for the last time at Harvest and the audience chanted and got one more song after their 'final song' XD We took communion and prayed in our group.
Esther, Naomi, Phil, James and I were the last on site and must have been the last people who weren't staff there too :D


It's results day tommorow and I'm a little nervous I guess :P