Reto Extremo = Extreme Challenge

Where to begin... my day today started before the day did. I'll have to explain: they sent us home yesterday after relaxing the whole day, doing devotions, worship, and listening to Jerry talk and talk and talllllllllk :), which was fun since we all had a billion questions for him. I fell asleep around 11pm and in the middle of REM sleep I hear a *BuZZ *BuZZ then a rukus and then I'm being pushed out of my bed, glancing at the clock I see it's 12:30am. I shook my clock a little to see if it was broken and then heard: "5 minutes to get out the door!"

When I get out to the street, I see the guys in the group at our door along with the ministry leader and our "extreme challenge" trainer (Jerry's son). When all the girls came out to meet them, we began a 30 minute run down dark streets and around the corners and through the neighborhoods and pausing only once for jumping jacks and military-style push-ups we arrive finally at the top of a bridge where at the bottom is a really dead-looking deer-type animal... I spit off the edge of the bridge and our trainer says non-chalantely... "ok, let's go back to bed."

You'd think, wow, what a long day - they probably won't make them do anything to difficult when they wake up at 6am, huh?

WRONG.

We eat breakfast and by 8am we were on a bus to the base of a Big Hill that we had to climb with backpacks (mine with all my homework and two Bibles and a Nalgene bottle full of water), and a very heavy odd item, like a tire, a weight, a chain, a brick, and a big giant 50- pound cross. The point, of course, being that we had to learn to work as a team and help each other up a hill without dissention or division... uhh, we failed that one. On the way back down, we got the point and stuck together, offered help and did all that a team is supposed to do.

Tomorrow is laundry day-slash- baby sitting day at the orphanage. All the staff is going to a conference at the church and we get to stay and be in charge. It'll be great! My favorite thing to do is play with the little girls... jump rope, etc. :)