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Friday, October 14, 2011

Annual Confrence

I want to tell you about Annual Confrence. (Mostly because I have tons of time and nothing else to do) So every year, well, I only went once but I'm planning on doing it agian, I am a Page at United Meathodist Church Annual Confrence. All I have to do, is diliver paper and notes. But they tell us that they are so greatful, because before they had the pages, they would have to go and get them (they meaning the pastors, the ones we are serving) and it would take up so much time, that the confrence would last 10 days instead of how it is now - 4 days. But, the suckiest part of it, is that where we sleep (in a collage dorm) charges us 25 dollars per night, and we stay there for 4 days, so we have to pay 100 dollars. But during the confrence, people donate money just to the pages. And then we donate usually 10% of that to whoever needs it, and then we all split the rest equally.
Last year, when my sister went (she couldn't go this year, because she was at a chior trip) she got 157 dollars, and this year when I went, I got 330. So it matters on the year.
When I went this year to Annual Confrence, there was many, many people there, very close to 2 Thousand. And I got recongnized by them all, I was famous. I got famous for doing the "Rollercoaster" the whole confrence. When I was walking, I moved my arms in a wave- like motion, at the same time. It was weird because most people thought I was a fish. At first, everyone looked at me weird, but I embraced that, and did it more, all the time. And even one person asked me what's my name because he thought that we (the pages) were doing a dancing contest, and he wanted to write my name down because he would vote for me. Which I thought was pretty hilarious. But at the end of the confrence,  I was loved by many. Only a few people gave me gifts; one person gave me an awesome drawing he drew, it was a picture of a clown (but it wasn't scary) and a dog, both happy and smiling, and on the top of the page in bubble letters, it said, "Keep smiling" That made me smile. And then another guy, he took a picture of me doing the rollercoaster, and then also me with my sameri (I probably misspelled that...) sword. (more details about that later) And then the other present I got was a cool lanyard, made of paper beads, all handmade. I got this from talking to someone, and then I complimented her on it, and then she said a friend made it for her, and that she can always make her another, and then gave me her lanyard. And I still wear that lanyard, to school, and I get so many compliments on it, it's unbeilevable.
And then the rest of the pages were pretty cool this year, too. For a while, we tried to do a flash mob. Whenever they were about to vote for something, then we would do something. Whenever the bishop said, "take out your respoders" we would either, lay on the ground, follow each other, freeze, or point to the bishop. And I think we did this the second to last day of confrence. When we would drop to the floor, that we the most confusing. Because no body realized we were all doing the same thing. And so whenever we would drop to the floor, the people around us would ask, "are you okay?" and we couldn't answer because we were laughing to hard, trying to be as quiet as possible. And when we were laughing, people thought we were either crying because we were hurt, or laughing because we were embarrised. And one of the pages was up by the front, dilivering notes up there, and then when she dropped, they thought she was dehydrated. They got her water and tried to help her, but nothing was wrong with her. And then people would kind of notice the other two, and then when we pointed at the bishop, he said, over his microphone, pointing with fingers isn't nice. So the next day, we did the same thing, only we did it with out swords.
And so the last day came, and we were going to do a skit. It was all prepared and everything. There are these two pages, and their names are Greyson and Andrew. And they were going to have like a morning talk show with the bishop, making it all funny. And when they wern't looking, we kidnapped the bishop. YES, WE DID KIDNAP THE BISHOP... and it was epic. There were two sides, the evil, kidnapping the bishop, and then we good, saving the bishop. And so I was a bad guy, and we got bananas for the bad guys, and we could wear them however we can. So I wore mine around my mouth, as if I was a bandit. And... i died.
But yeah, it was a lot of fun, and there's a few details I didn't tell you, because I didn't have enogh time, but anyways, we drank a lot of starbucks and redbull (they were for free) and we went to a waterpark, and an arcade, and it was so fun, and I can't wait till I go next year. Bye!

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