GOD is amazing. :D

ok, so things went really well with that competition and what not.  we all got there not expecting to really do too well and we walked away 7th place out of 10 of the instalations that competed for instalaton of the year a.k.a IOY.  so yea, that is really good see as how we are a bunch of people from around the country and we really didn't get to know each other until these two weeks here.  you see, the other people that were there work with each other year round and have already gone through a whole heap together and we have only had a coupld training events together with each other so we really didn't know each other at all.  im going to tell you we did go through some hard times.  there was one day that was just horrible.  one of the people in charge was just yelling at everyone would shut up and was just pushing for some certain things way to hard.  and so i ended up getting pissed and wasn't in the mood to do anything and so i just got out of there and while i was gone 3 of the other people in charge, yes we pretty much had 4 people in charge, lol, but yea, they gave him a lecture and that day got better.  but yea, that one guy won't be returning next year which i think is a good thing cuz i don't think he was really doing much good for the team, but we won't go there.  so yea, i ended up taking on a lot of stuff during the competition and i am starting to think i almost took on too much but i came out really well.  in fact i was pretty much the highest medal winner on our team.  i walked away with 1 silver medal, 3 bronze medals, and a comendable.  silver medal was the the hot nutritional which during that competition we did so well that i ended up just stirring a soup for 30 min atleast to just kill time.  i got the soup from 80 degrees to 38 degrees with just an ice bath. lol  but that one went really well and we made the best ribs that i have ever had.  the meat just fell off the bone which makes me want to get a pressure cooker so i can make them.  but then the next competition was jr chef.  i got a bronze but personally i feel like i don't deservet that one.  i made a lot of mistakes and so yea...the biggest was we had to make a menu before we went in there and on my menu i had chocolate mousse as the dessert but i went and messed that one up and so i couldn't serve that and so i had to come up with something off the top of my head with an hour left to go which sucked cuz that put me under a lot of pressure but i ended up making an apple dumpling, which takes an hour to cook and like i said i had an hour left and so i had to put it all together and cook it within an hour.  luckily it came out just in time.  but htat got me points off becuz like i said i had mousse on my menu, which i know what i did wrong so it will never happen again.  but yea, one of the judges said he didn't take off points for it becuz he was happy i got something out there.  i was supposed to send out a 3 course meal and dessert was one of them and so he said he was happy that i got something out there and just didn't sent anything out at all and so he was like, i compliment you on your ability to think on your feet and so that made me feel better.  so yea that was jr chef.  the next one i got a bronze in was student skills which we put together a menu the night before cuz the person who was supposed to come up with one didn't do it in the two weeks we were there when he was supposed to have it done before we even got there which just pissed me off becuz we were not ready for that one at all i think but we ended up pulling out a bronze so yay.  which is quite a feet when the other teams had months to pracice it and i didn't even practice it at all cuz i didn't have time to when i only got it the night before.  so somehow we pulled that one out of our butts.  the next one we got a bronze on was the knowledge bowl.  we came in second for that only becuz we were so tired from the night before comeing up with the menu for student skills otherwise i think we would have gotten 1st.  but what was really interesting was that at the beginning of the two weeks we took a test which was the cc written exam and the aver amount of people to pass it per team was 25 percent and our team 78 percent passed so that was kool.  we had a lot of knowledge on out team.  oh and another thing i came away with was a c.c. certification which is a certified culinarian which helps in the whole getting a job thing.  next year i think i want to either got for working pastry chef or for certified executive chef.  but that second one would be really hard.  but yea, that was the highlights of my two week in ft lee.  all in all it was a pretty good time.  i think that is about all i am going to put for now cuz i am kind of tired of typing.  lol

so the other night i went to go to NCC to go hang out with some friends that i still know up there.  for some reason i made some sort of good impression with them and i have no idea y or how cuz i really didn't do too much around there but soccer adn then when that was over i wasn't really around there too much but nonetheless they all still like me and so i still go up and hang out now and use some of the resources there.  but anyway i went up and they were having a movie night and watching meet the robinsons.  now i have no idea what that has to do about what i got on here for lol but yea, i just thought i would shove that in here.  but anyway i was walking down the halls and i read a paper that someone had written and but up for all to see.  it wasn't like a paper for class or anything it was a verse which i am guessing had something to do with what was going on around there at the time so i just stopped and read it and i liked what i read and i guess it made me think a little bit.  but the verse was:

Galatians 5:22-26 (New International Version)

22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. 24Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the sinful nature with its passions and desires. 25Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit. 26Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other.

idk, i guess i just read through this and thought to myself, y is it so hard for humans to do that.  and i think the biggest part is the not envying each other.  i know there are times where i envy people even though i know i shouldn't.  but yea, i just thought i would put that up here.  i know there isn't much to it but WHO CARES tis my page so if you don't like it then....idk but i will think of something. lol

tty'all later.  bye bye

ok so i am going to see how much i can get on to here.  lets see, what have i been up to lately... well i just got back from a weekend of camp which was a lot of fun.  though i was in the kitchen cooking the whole i still had a lot of fun.  even though i was stuck with a pink haired girl and then a bossy lady.  lol jk it was a lot of fun with katily and tamie.  so apparently loni and i can do a good job curtailing our relationship becuz by the time we left mike still didn'tknow that we were and 'item' as tamie put it. lol  but it was funny cuz as i was leaving the kitchen to leave camp vita turned to me with a bit smile and told me good luck with loni and mike was right there and he was like, with who?  so i guess we did a good job of not showing it. :) lol  bu thtat don't mean a lot of people already knew.  and then for the people who didn't know who found out i got a lot of the same reactions as i have before like, awww, isn't that cute. and stuff like that.  but then people found out that sunday was two months and then even the people who did know like EVA were like awww, isn't that cute.  what is the point of that?  w/e lol i just sit there and laugh at them inside. ;) jk   but anyway i was talking with naomi this weekend and we started talking about stuff like clubs for something.  i think it started out i was joking about her being the president of the PTH (pt haters club) and just joking around with her on that one and then she said that there wasn't a pth club but a ptl club and i was like you know i don't want that.  i don't go to camp for people to start a club about me or w/e.  i go there to hopefully help kids grow in christ more and stuff like that.  i don't know, i guess just the thought of a bunch of kids putting me up on a pedestal or w/e and lookingup to me like that just kind of puts me under some pressure like i can't mess up on anything or i will just totally let them down or something.  and i don't like that feeling.  i guess though i would rather have them look up to me then some of the other people out there in the world like that.  but really in all reality i would rather just have them look up to me as a friend and as a peer then as the way it made it sound.  idk, maybe i am just overreacting here on this one but any thoughts one it would be kool.  i guess something i want to say is don't get me wrong on this, i love the kids at camp and what not and i look forward to seeing them everytime i go up there but idk. idk if i got the point accross on here or not but if i confused you at all just ask me.  but yea, thoughts on this plz.  thanx guys.

SPC Harmon.  :) lol