its all over... =[

so parachute is over and im sad. i want it to come back. i want to be dancing to family force 5, worshipping with the ember days, having a dance party in the middle of worship with parachute band, and having a ho down with david crowder band (man i miss that guitar hero controller).

probably had the best spot ever this year, had shade all day long... actually too much shade in the morning cause it was cold! ha never thought cold and parachute could be used together.

got burnt on the last day! boo! the only day i put sunscreen on too, whats with that? haha

had a youth farewell dinner last night as well 12 of us are leaving for further study this year, the biggest exodus of youth from the youth group in the last 10 years or so. none last year and only 1 the year before that. 

man im going to miss a lot of people this year... my bestest has just left town today for wellington, that'll be a 10 hour drive from where ill be going =[ that makes me sad.

anyway i have to go out and have some lunch with people and stuff, leaving town is a lot of work i tell ya and im not even leaving for another month haha...

toodles

parachute 09

woo! next week! i so cant wait! hahah its my fav thing of the year (well along with christmas and my birthday haha).

printed out the programme tonight, and decided where i'll be spending my weekend.

friday.

arrive at parachute | set up tent

mainstage | 7.30pm | the wildcard comp winner
mainstage | 9.55pm | rapture ruckus
palladium | 11.00pm | family force 5

saturday.

mainstage | 9.30am | morning meeting
palladium | 12.20pm | artist interview
palladium | 3.40pm | primal band
seminar space | 4.10pm | guy talk
mainstage | 8.20pm | family force 5
mainstage | 9.25pm | kutless
palladium | 10.30pm | the ember days
palladium | 11.10pm | fatis valour

sunday.

mainstage | 9.30am | morning meeting
seminar space | 12.30pm | christian responsibility in a dying world
seminar space | 1.20pm | hurt people - hurt people
seminar space | 4.50pm | creativity & the arts: new hope for the 21st century
mainstage | 6.15pm | the ember days
mainstage | 7.40pm | joe pringle
mainstage | 9.20pm | david crowder band
mainstage | 10.35pm | casting crowns

monday.

mainstage | 9.30am | morning meeting
mainstage | 11.20am | casting crowns

sometime in the afternoon | go home =[

so if anyones at any of those things, text me or something and we'll hang =]

news?

ok so im watching the late night news and so far in the first 3 stories, at least 8 people have died.

what the heck? ok make that 4 stories and at least 9 deaths. seriously? why is this all the news shows? like a happy story would be nice...

so all the local news has just finished, and now it goes over to gaza where another conflict is happening, guess what more deaths..

it's really no wonder why there are so many people on anti-depression meds, who dont see anything coming of this life.

we are constantly bombarded with stories of death, murder, rape, war, and more of the like. im probably going to go to sleep tonight thinking of these things and how crap the world is.

thats the effect the news can have, we study the effect of the media in school yet we do nothing to change that. we do nothing to change the stories they show, we dont even make our voices heard with what stories we want to see or hear.

im thinking of ways to help change that.

id like a happy story before bed thank you.

seeking

well i just bought the live cd/dvd "the final riot!" by paramore last week and it just arrived in the post this morning. i've watched it 3 times now and it's great! honestly well worth it! their album "riot!" just went platinum in the united states and by watching this dvd you can certainly see why. they have a great stage show and are real creative with where they take their intros and songs etc. its not like the studio album at all, with all their creativity going into changes in the songs, linking songs together.

the set list goes:
- born for this
- thats what you get
- here we go again
- fences
- crushcrushcrush
- let the flames begin
- when it rains
- my heart
- decoy
- pressure
- for a pessimist, im pretty optimistic
- we are broken
- emergency
- hallelujah
- misery business

it is good! definitely recommended!

at the end of my heart (which was done acoustically to an amazing effect), when hayley was singing "this heart, it beats, beats for only you, my heart is yours" she got the crowd to join her.

now what really interested me was that hayleys hands were raised as if she was worshipping in a church, i know hayley is christian, but what really interested me is that nearly the rest of the crowd were doing the same.

maybe they felt something, felt like they were a part of something bigger than themselves. and since they were feeling that they had no hesitation to join in and become a part of something.

maybe thats one thing the church needs to learn, to make people feel that they are a part of something bigger than themselves that they have a purpose.

well anyway im out. pic below.