Josh's Kaleo Updates

On time this week! Yeah this week was pretty sweet, even got a lot of homework done! (sorry if this post doesn't make much sense but it's late and I haven't slept well in like 4 days. Where to start though? I guess I'll start with this weeks youth group. After 2 weeks of not having my Ipod at Youth Group I have managed to win several "battles" against the evil hair pulling girls. So for the last 2 weeks I haven't had my hair pulled often and I haven't been kicked in the shins at all. This week we did a combined group with the grade 6 boys and I got to get in a small group with some of the boys that I've grown pretty close too so that was sweet. It was a bummer that I wasn't able to go to Warmland Church this week or go to Sunday night Youth but...

YOUTH QUAKE WAS AMAZING! it started at 4 in the morning on Thursday and ended about 6 hours ago with all the bus rides and spending the weekend at the "mothership." Yeah the first hour or so of being at Briercrest was a bit overwhelming but after everything wasn't so brand spanking new anymore I started to settle in quite well. So Friday was a bit of an overwhelming day for me but I got to see Briercrest a bit and started to figure out if I wanted to go there or not for the next 3 years.

Friday rolled on and I had a sweet time hanging with Kaleo 3 through 6 and other people that I knew at Briercrest. Then Friday Night rolled around and the concert was sweet! RED blew the roof off of that place and the moch pit was pretty awesome to. So little story for all you people that are use to cold places. During the concern I had a water bottle dumped on me and I was really wet, including my hair. So when the concert ended I headed outside to go back to my dorm and a very odd thing happened to me. My hair froze. That has never happened to me before! I was kind of scared so Don Taylor, Old Testament Prof/Briercrest Police Sherif, was in his squad car on my way back to my dorm so I went over to talk to him and I asked about my hair. His response was a polite chuckle and told me not to worry about it. That was so weird! frozen hair...

Sunday morning was my best time there and I really felt at home sitting with all the Kaleo students in front of me, behind me, and beside me. Really I felt like I was home, in a weird and cold way. So I'm sorry to all my friends back here in B.C. but I will be going to Briercrest next year. So if you guys could pray for me that I can get the money to pay for it and also that my body would adapt to the cold there so I'm not sick 24/7 next year.

Here is a YQ Kaleo Photo of all of us praying before we headed off
Feb 23rd

Ok so I should probably explain my title. So we are in week 21 of Kaleo and I'm going to be talking about how crazy this last was. It started with a crazy study session in our room for our Old Testament course. After studying for about 10 hours over two nights and a day we headed into what has been the hardest non-math exam I have ever taken. But I think I did fairly well but I probably won't know my mark until sometime in 2011 because Briercrest marks things so slowly. But hey I don't blame them they have to mark a lot of papers.

Anyways, after that crazy test came the start of the 2 weeks of HOMEWORK CRUNCH! yes here at Kaleo we are now in homework craze and have to read 2 books, do 3 papers, and read 3 of the 4 gospels so I haven't had much time to do anything else but homework. AND MY KEYBOARD IS DRIVING ME INSANE! sorry i'm having some keyboard troubles which evens out the score Mac=1 PC=1.

Aside from all the homework I decided that I was going to go on a talking, food, music, Internet fast for about 3 days this week. so that was a very interesting experience in becoming more humble and focusing more on God and other people rather then me. Although it was very hard to communicate with people when I couldn't actually talk.

Oh another awesome thing that we did this week was we said goodbye to the old skatepark! the matiance team, some Kaleo students and me went to the old rotting park with crowbars, sledge hammers and a tractor! so now all thats left of theold stakepark is a pile of ashes and a huge hole in the concreate.

Then it was Youth time! this week was just a nightmare for youth group. Well the Kaleo students led the night and that went sweet, but the rest of the night was crazy! we played a game of manhunt and that turned into a mess really fast and then some guy who was hanging around the school called the cops on us and 6 cop cars showed up so yeah crazy week.

Then came the manly things. I'm going to list them off from least manly to most manly. First we trapped some of the girls who pranked our rooms in the laundry room, then we destroyed the skatepark, then we went on a cougar hunt (and failed), and finally the most manly of all we made a fort in the lounge out of couches and blankets and wouldn't let girls in.

Yep thats my week, and guess what there's more to come!

No new photo this week but here is a photo that I really like

Ok so I thought I would start to do blogging on time but I failed that again as I did not blog last week. Oops well I guess that didn't happen. well anyways I had a great last couple of weeks. So here is this week's post kind of on time...

Sunday night Youth group has been pretty sweet too. Two weeks ago me and two of the youth boys hung out here at Qwanoes and had a sweet time. That night youth was ok except for the fact that we were outside in the freezing cold playing a game. And then this weekend we packed up our stuff and headed out towards the middle of nowhere on the island and had Island Liftoff. I going to have to say it was pretty fun I enjoyed hanging out with people I knew from Victoria and from the North side of the Island. One thing though people stop asking me "Can I be an actioneer?" my answer will always be the same. Facebook me letting me know that you want to be an Actioneer and then I'll try to get you into actioneering.

After my church chilling time, we headed up to Mount Washington where the snow is melting ever so slowly. So the mountian is slowly closing too. Great day of Skiiing except for the last run. Ok so there is a 6 foot long snow box in the terrain park that last time we were at the Mountian I ended up jumping right over. So the gap for the first little part has been worn down and gotten a lot bigger. So here I am thinking "Oh I need to go full speed to get over this thing" so off I go going full speed and then I'm in the air. Now there are these two little bumps at the end of the box. So I hit the first one with the tip of my ski, go right ribs first into the second icey bump, go over the edge of the jump and hit the same ribs on the edge of the icey landing ramp. So I now have 3 bruised ribs and everytime I try to play sports games like soccer I hurt and can't do it. It's ok though give me like 3 days and I'll be fine again.

Oh also Missions Fest was pretty awesome. I was really hit hard by the speaker Tony Campolo. His speech really helped to lead met towards where I want to be going with my life and all the ways we are not caring for the outside world. So I have decided that when I start making my own money, meaing I have a really job (not Qwanoes) I will sponsor a child in Mozambique. So yeah thats big news for me since I've always wanted to do that just didn't want to burden my parents with it and I wanted to do it myself. Also it was really cool on that Thursday, I lived a life in the day of Josh Whincup in 2007/grade 12. It was awesome seeing some of my friends from back in the highschool days.

Yeah so thats my last 2 weeks for you.

Here are a couple pics for you seeing that my last like 3 or 4 posts had no pics.
Feb 9th