Soul Survivor

Hello You!

As I mentioned in my previous post, I also went to Soul Survivor this summer, which for those who don't know, is a camp where lots of Christians and a few non-christians, get together to learn about the bible and God and worship and things like that. But before you stop reading, because you think it sounds utterly boring and a waste of time, it is actually, one of my favourite weeks in the year! I find the talks especially encouraging, so when I leave the 'Big Top', shown below, I always leave with a mix of excitement  joy, contentness and the feeling of possibility and hope for the future.

Along with the interesting talks and worship bands ('The Rend Collective Experiment' is my fav) the camping is quite an experience. Luckily this year, the church youth group I went with had a lounge tent complete with sofa, armchairs, carpet and bunting, which was just perfect. So although the food wasn't 5 star or even 3 star cuisine, and the toilets and showers were positively yucky, the lounge and kitchen tents made up for it.

The Lounge Tent

Dinner mmmmm...

The most delicious hot chocolate

The Wasp Trap

Got a little henna fish on my wrist there!

The tool shed, full of stalls and interesting activities.

Overall, I had a fabulous 5 days at Soul Survivor, hopefully I can go next year too!

Jersey

Hello Again!

Woah, it's been a long time, a month even since I last posted, so I will try to post a little more in the future.

Anyway, it has been a bit hectic recently with my summer holidays, and the exciting (mostly) things I have been up to in the last month.


Firstly I hopped on a ferry with my parents and arrived in Jersey, where we surfed, swam, and sunbathed, in the little British Island off the coast of France if you didn't know. Here a a few of my daily snaps, for you to see our adventures:

Boat picture taken from the ferry on the way to Jersey.

A Lovely lighthouse

Every time that our family goes on holiday, for some reason, there seems to be a tradition of visiting churches, just to see what they look like. So bellow, I show you the first church we visited called something like "the glass church" because there is lots of glass in it (such a surprise!) and on the left is a church we investigated in St. Malo...

"St. Malo... but that's in France", I hear you cry (maybe...). Yes that's right, we also went on a day trip to France, which was so beautiful, and the next 3 photos are also from St. Malo, which is a pretty, small and delightful town, which happens to sell lots of different flavoured, delicious Icecream.

Now I'm no photographer, but I uploaded this photo, because I think it looked like a very cute picture, with the tiny coloured pegs,  bicycle on the balcony in the midst of all the big buildings like the one shown below.

We also went to the zoo, and saw I think my favourite animals, meerkats! I just think they are so lovely, and adorable, aw just look at their little faces! :')









Here is a couple of love-flamingoes, to finish off the photos from Jersey.

If I manage to find any photos from surfing I might upload those on to this post later, so keep an eye out!







So I had a super 2 weeks in Jersey, but then went off to Soul Survivor, a christian camp with many of my friends, which was amazingly fun, and I may also upload, another post on that depending on how I feel.
Okay well that's all for now, I'll write again soon!