Here’s a video that another youth group put together after visiting First Love. We’ll get our hands dirty doing many of the same things!

Hey everyone this is Ryan Guard

Just wanted to hop on here and say I am excited and HONORED that I get to be a part of this trip! I hope to get on here and keep everyone updated both before and during our trip to Boracay. Add this blog to your Favorites or your RSS feed to stay up to date!

i think it’s funny how in the word seamstress the word “stress” also appears. i was definitely stressed out on saturday but only for about 2 seconds. saturday was a skirt making festivity at the norton’s for the girls going to the philippines. a bunch of us ran into each other at joann’s and grabbed similar fabric and then headed to Sarah’s where there a bunch of helpful and experienced mommy’s, two sewing machines, several patterns, and a newly bought game of guitar hero III. sewing isn’t as easy as it looks, but all of them sure do look cute! i like the von trapp family (sound of music) theme we’ve got going on and it was exciting having all those girls there for more bonding time, as cheesy as it sounds. big shout out to all the mom’s that helped because we definitely could not have done it without you all! and as for the boys, we can make you guys bandanas or something…

let’s go already. i’m already ready for nothing stylish or flashy for two weeks and just plain white vnecks and these skirts and shorts for two weeks straight.

:)chantelle

The garage sale was successful! We raised $1400 and some change. Way to go! Thanks to everyone who worked hard, and accidentally had their things sold, or got a sun burn, and didn’t get too much sleep. Thanks for Mrs. Reed for making baked goods to sell, the Christensen’s for watermelons and Angel tickets, and everyone for their donations!!

Pick a date any date except Sunday. You can make more 1 a week if you want. Portion of proceeds go to Boracay. What portion? That I will find out today.

umm….i’m not sure what we’re supposed to write on here, so i’ll just write about my life as it is…don’t think i’m self-absorbed, but my life is the only one i’m qualified to write about.

okay so today, i woke up at 5:30 and got ready for school…ate some french toast made by my ate and went to school in my supercool white uniform shirt and blue uniform skirt. I then traveled down the new elevator in the condos i live in. It makes me sad because i liked the old elevator much better. The old one had windows all around so i could see the back of my hair in the morning. The new one smells funny and has a strange light. Oh well, I still live and it’s depressing effects don’t last too long. So I rode to school with Nika (my housemate) who has recently learned to drive. When I got to school, i hurried to my locker (i was a tad bit late…but the tardy bell hadn’t rung yet) and went to my useless geometry class where all we did was draw flowers using compasses. At least we had time to study for biology. After geometry, i had US history and then english. In english we’re making speeches. Today i decided to make mine about kissing and its negative effects (I can’t speak from personal experience but…yeah). Then i had a test in biology and i have no idea how that went. Then we had lunch and i ate rice and some lumpia (kinda like egg rolls). Next came my weights class…that’s pretty fun. So be prepared to see my buffness when i return. After that, i have art 2 where we’re drawing our self portraits using oil pastels. That is lookin pretty good actually. Then my last class of the day is worldview where we learned about cults. Oo i just remembered tomorrow is chapel day…my favorite day!!! i’m excited! ok so after school on tuesdays, we don’t have sports because the teachers have meetings and most of the coaches are teachers. So instead of swimming (that’s the sport i am currently in), i ran 2 miles and felt like i was gonna die. But at least i’m one step further toward getting in shape for running. Because i’m in shape for swimming and working out…but those are entirely different from running! then i talked with lauren bell and caleb ebersole for a while about relationships n such. Twas quite fun

so now i’m gettin ready to do my wonderful homework…oh and today, i am 16 and 1/2. my mom just reminded me. i feel so old! ahhh!!!

planet wisdom was so fun you guys! and we raised a little bit more than $2000 which i’m super excited about. today at school, they announced that on the cafeteria menu for lunch, they were serving chic-fil-a and i gagged. haha but nonetheless, it was a nice time for bonding and support and music which is always a plus. when’s our garage sale fundraiser? and i’ve officially decided that as a team, we should all go to see PRINCE CASPIAN!

tagalog word of the day: buhay (pronounced boo-hi) meaning house!

Wow! Chantelle you are amazing! thank you so much for setting up this blog it is very crisp and official! i am so looking forward to what God has planned for this trip each meeting is just another opportunity to see what God wants to do through this trip! i think we are all going to make a dedicated and determined team! how do we look at the pics? still gotta get the hang of this

First post! Not going to be very exciting since its 1:24AM and I’m exhausted. Nevertheless, the blog is done and I hope everyone continues to use this to the fullest just like I pray God will use us on this trip.  SO STOKED you don’t even know. Then again maybe you do :]

<3chantelle