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Boaz’s Graduation Party

Lawrence — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 02:08:55 +0000

Tonight Mazie and I went to Boaz’s graduation party. Lots of good food and fun. I was able to take some swings at a baseball, and almost hit one out of the park. I think I was probably 20 feet short of doing so. As usual, I had my camera with me, and I was able to get some good shots with a nice blue sky for a background. It’s amazing what you can do with light. I’ve added some pictures to a small album, so go take a look! Below are 3 pictures from the album.

Congrats again to Boaz on graduating high school!

MBC 08: Photo Gallery

Lawrence — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 01:23:03 +0000

Well, as the title implies, I have finally put together a photo gallery. I only included around 100 pictures, simply because it takes me way too long to edit all the pictures to put them online, and a lot of them were repeats.

Anyways, here’s the link to the gallery, or just click on the “photos” box above Enjoy!

MBC 08: The Power to Share the Good News

Lawrence — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:22:22 +0000

Well, with MBC over, it’s time for me to go through all my pictures and come up with an album. This will take a few days, but I’ll finish it up eventually. All in all, this year’s Music and Bible camp went really well in my opinion with the performance last night going great. It’s always great to see everything come together and work out in the end. Below are a couple of pictures that were taken from day 4.

MBC 08: The Power to Live Forever!

Lawrence — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:09:47 +0000

Today was the last full day of Music and Bible camp, with tomorrow being more geared towards getting ready for the concert tomorrow evening. Today’s bible point focused around the death and resurrection of Jesus, such that Jesus gives us the power to live forever!

A majority of the pictures that I took today focused around the TAs since I needed to get a couple of them. However, since I had to run a station in the afternoon, I had to let some of the TAs borrow my camera to go take shots of the other stations. By the end of the day, I ended up with almost 700 pictures taken for just today! It’ll definitely take me awhile to go through all of them for the slideshow. Below are a few that were taken during today.

One of a few pictures of “senior picture” poses

One of many Jess “senior pictures”

Make sure you take the time to smell the flowers!

V is for Victory!

MBC 08: The Power to be Brave!

Lawrence — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:47:47 +0000

Well, it’s now more than half way to the end of Music and Bible camp and things have been going really well. The kids seem to all really be having a lot of fun, and the TAs have all done a great job helping out with things so far this week. Today’s bible point was that Jesus gives us the power to be brave! This was based around the story of Peter walking on water to go and meet Jesus.

Running “Station 5″ or what we’re calling Power Lab, I do this one activity where I take pictures of the kids the previous day and then show those pictures in a slide show that tells a story the following day. It’s pretty funny how all the kids love to see themselves in the pictures, and they even complain if they don’t see themselves enough. Gotta spread those pictures around evenly! It’s also been a good way for me to take pictures, though I miss out on being able to take pictures of the other afternoon bible stations.

Well anyways, here are a few pictures from today. Enjoy!

What pretty pony tails!

Accidentally cut off part of Keith in this picture, but it’s still a good one

This is actually from Day 1, but I thought it was a good one so I posted it anyways.

MBC 08: The Power to Help Others

Lawrence — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:30:52 +0000

Another day in the books, and a lot more pictures taken. I think drinking coffee this morning definitely helped to keep my energy up throughout the day. Today’s bible point was that “Jesus gives us the power to help others!” This year, whenever the kids hear the bible point, they all yell out “Aha!” I was thinking “Eureaka!” would’ve worked too, but Aha was probably more understandble for the kids. Anyways, below are a few pictures that I picked out from the 300+ I took today. A real photo album will come eventually, so you’ll have to enjoy these in the mean time.

The kids just love to chase after Dan

This is what happens after they’ve caught him

Karate Kick!

MBC 08: The Power to be Thankful!

Lawrence — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 23:47:21 +0000

Well, the first day of MBC is now over, and I’m exhausted. I forget how tiring it is to work with so many kids for such a long time. I even took a short nap afterwards, something that I usually try to avoid. Anyways, I was able to take a good number of pictures for today, but it’d take me too long to go through them all and post them all online. I’ll probably get to that sometime later this week. In the meantime, enjoy these 4 pictures that I liked.

All in all, a great first day and a great rest of the week to come.

MBC 08: Power Lab

Lawrence — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 00:17:07 +0000

Well, it’s that time of year again where Music and Bible Camp is about to start again. I’ll luckily be able to help out the whole week this year, so be on the look out this week for some picture posts. Here’s one for starters.

To Comment or Not to Comment?

Lawrence — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 02:37:59 +0000

No, I’m not talking about leaving comments on my webpage, though comments are always appreciated. Instead, I’m talking about whether or not you would interject in a random person’s conversation if you overheard them talking about something that you knew about?

I’ve always had this thought during the times that I’ve been in stores where the sales person is trying to make a sale and telling the customer all sorts of stuff. Usually, the sales person is it in for themselves, trying to make a sale, with the customer not really knowing what they’re looking for. If you hear the sales person saying something like “Getting this item will really make things better,” and you know that for the most part, that item won’t really do anything to help the customer, do you step in and give advice to the random stranger about to be duped? Or do you just laugh to yourself, and think that you know better, then keep walking?

What if let’s say you’re at a restaurant eating, and you overhear the table next to you and you hear one person tell the person their eating with something that’s completely wrong and you know it’s wrong. The person listening doens’t seem like they know it’s wrong, so they believe what they’re hearing. Do you offer your own comments, of course in a nice manner?

I’ve typically stayed quiet figuring that for the most part it’s not my place to make a comment. But maybe I should be commenting in the future? What do you do? Do you pass on your knowledge or do you keep quiet not knowing the other people? Leave a comment and let me know!

A Recital and an Initiation Day

Lawrence — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 23:46:28 +0000

I wanted to post a couple of pictures that I was able to take from this past weekend’s events. First on Saturday, Wesley had his senior recital where he rocked out on his electric violin (as well as a normal one). Then on Sunday, we had a student planned/led YG Inititiation/Summer kickoff day. I wasn’t able to get many pictures, but here are just a few from the weekend.