New Years and more
As you all know from my previous post I was very sick. But don't worry I am feeling much much better. My life is back to normal, I'm not going crazy from being stuck in the house for such a long time. hhaha..
Anyway as some of you already know I spent my new years eve at the Times Square Corps in... well Times Square New York! Captains Billy and Annalise Francis (who are AWESOME) agreed to having a bunch of us teens as well as other adults chill at their corps for New Years Eve. I went into the city with the Hickmans after staying at their house for a day. Once we got in we helped set up for the program that was going to happen that night. Then everyone started arriving and the city started filling up with people. A bunch of us teens were there early and had a little jam session in their awesome chapel and had a game or two or three of HALO in their awesome x-box room.
After a while of fooling around on the roof (pictures at the end of the post) we had a little meeting at around 10 oclock. Annalise sang beautifully and then she talked about the past year and how there have been good times and bad and she talked about her beautiful baby Callie. It made me look back on the entire year and it brought a tear to my eye. A whole lot happened this year and well I'm glad 2007 is finally over! Anyway, we had the priviledge of Commissioners Francis being there and leading the meeting. Commissioner Francis spoke about being light in the darkness which could not have been more perfect for me because as you have seen on my post about light I am obsessed with it. :) It was so crazy because as he was preaching he walked out near the congregation and said I see a light in you and pointed to me! AHHh.. WILD! hahaha. So it was a perfect way to bring in the new year!
After the meeting we went upstairs for some food and then we went to the roof. Commissioner Francis, Captain Billy, Captain Hickman, Felix, Juliann and I went up this ladder to a really high part of the roof. It was so scary but we definitely had the best view of the ball. After the ball dropped we went back inside, played some more x-box then walked Jamie Strain and Lili Wilson back to the ARC. Then, Stephen, Seth, Felix and I headed out into the madness of NYC to Penn station. I linked arms with Felix because there were loads of drunk crazy people out. It was really depressing actually. We had to jump over piles of vomit and beer cans and mcDonalds bags and streamers. It was gross out. It was like another world. People were stumbling all over the place, Screaming, some even crying. It was a mess. I wondered why someone would want to bring in a NEW YEAR like that. It just doesn't make sense to me. Anyway, we got to penn at like 2:00am because Stephen said there was a train leaving at 3:00 (we figured we should get there early to get our tickets and get on the train quickly so we could get seats.) Well I go to the board and look for the hempstead line and I see the time 3:51!!!! AHHHHHHh Stephen was like oopssss...By this point I really wasn't feeling good either, I had a fever, sore throat and headache. Penn station was a mess too. I have never seen so many people passed out in one place. So we decided to go Au Bon Pain were we could sit and have a bit to eat. Once we got our food and found a seat we were so relieved.
Au Bon Pain was an experience in itself. We encountered so many odd things. First there was a man passed out on a table behind me and a man working on something the smelled like he hadn't taken a shower in months by Stephen. If any of you know Stephen you know that he was freakin' out about a guy smelling near him. Then there was this man behind felix dressed in a black suit with a red shirt and tie. He was sweating like crazy and mumbling words over and over. I looked over at him because I am so nosy and noticed a Bible on his table and he was mumbling phrases from a book called Spiritual Warfare. I thought that was interesting. After the passed out man got kicked out by the cashier a group of four girls and one guy came in with mcDonalds. They didn't seem very out of it, maybe just a bit. Well all of a sudden Felix started laughing, so I turn around to see what he is laughing about and the guy with them had mayo ALL over his face. I'm talking like on his forehead, cheeks, chin, it was soo nasty! hahahhaa...After the spiritual warfare man left a rather large Asian woman came in with a cart filled with nicknacks. She seemed like the most normal person I had seen all night until she started singing really really loud. She was singing in her own language and by this point we were all delirious and exhausted that we just could not stop laughing! Finally after sitting in Au Bon Pain for nearly two hours we ran onto our train. The train ride wasn't that bad. It was packed with trashed people and some of them started fighting with each other but other than that it was pretty uneventful. We finally got off at our stop. I get home and all the doors are locked! By this time it is like 5 in the morning and I'm stuck outside in the freezing cold. I ended up just calling the house phone and waking everyone up so that I could get in.
So as you have just read new Years was very interesting. Billy and I are already planning next years! We are going to have an all night praise and worship time with all young adults. It's going to be awesome! :)
So I guess that is it for now. Oh here are some pics from that night.
Anyway as some of you already know I spent my new years eve at the Times Square Corps in... well Times Square New York! Captains Billy and Annalise Francis (who are AWESOME) agreed to having a bunch of us teens as well as other adults chill at their corps for New Years Eve. I went into the city with the Hickmans after staying at their house for a day. Once we got in we helped set up for the program that was going to happen that night. Then everyone started arriving and the city started filling up with people. A bunch of us teens were there early and had a little jam session in their awesome chapel and had a game or two or three of HALO in their awesome x-box room.
After a while of fooling around on the roof (pictures at the end of the post) we had a little meeting at around 10 oclock. Annalise sang beautifully and then she talked about the past year and how there have been good times and bad and she talked about her beautiful baby Callie. It made me look back on the entire year and it brought a tear to my eye. A whole lot happened this year and well I'm glad 2007 is finally over! Anyway, we had the priviledge of Commissioners Francis being there and leading the meeting. Commissioner Francis spoke about being light in the darkness which could not have been more perfect for me because as you have seen on my post about light I am obsessed with it. :) It was so crazy because as he was preaching he walked out near the congregation and said I see a light in you and pointed to me! AHHh.. WILD! hahaha. So it was a perfect way to bring in the new year!
After the meeting we went upstairs for some food and then we went to the roof. Commissioner Francis, Captain Billy, Captain Hickman, Felix, Juliann and I went up this ladder to a really high part of the roof. It was so scary but we definitely had the best view of the ball. After the ball dropped we went back inside, played some more x-box then walked Jamie Strain and Lili Wilson back to the ARC. Then, Stephen, Seth, Felix and I headed out into the madness of NYC to Penn station. I linked arms with Felix because there were loads of drunk crazy people out. It was really depressing actually. We had to jump over piles of vomit and beer cans and mcDonalds bags and streamers. It was gross out. It was like another world. People were stumbling all over the place, Screaming, some even crying. It was a mess. I wondered why someone would want to bring in a NEW YEAR like that. It just doesn't make sense to me. Anyway, we got to penn at like 2:00am because Stephen said there was a train leaving at 3:00 (we figured we should get there early to get our tickets and get on the train quickly so we could get seats.) Well I go to the board and look for the hempstead line and I see the time 3:51!!!! AHHHHHHh Stephen was like oopssss...By this point I really wasn't feeling good either, I had a fever, sore throat and headache. Penn station was a mess too. I have never seen so many people passed out in one place. So we decided to go Au Bon Pain were we could sit and have a bit to eat. Once we got our food and found a seat we were so relieved.
Au Bon Pain was an experience in itself. We encountered so many odd things. First there was a man passed out on a table behind me and a man working on something the smelled like he hadn't taken a shower in months by Stephen. If any of you know Stephen you know that he was freakin' out about a guy smelling near him. Then there was this man behind felix dressed in a black suit with a red shirt and tie. He was sweating like crazy and mumbling words over and over. I looked over at him because I am so nosy and noticed a Bible on his table and he was mumbling phrases from a book called Spiritual Warfare. I thought that was interesting. After the passed out man got kicked out by the cashier a group of four girls and one guy came in with mcDonalds. They didn't seem very out of it, maybe just a bit. Well all of a sudden Felix started laughing, so I turn around to see what he is laughing about and the guy with them had mayo ALL over his face. I'm talking like on his forehead, cheeks, chin, it was soo nasty! hahahhaa...After the spiritual warfare man left a rather large Asian woman came in with a cart filled with nicknacks. She seemed like the most normal person I had seen all night until she started singing really really loud. She was singing in her own language and by this point we were all delirious and exhausted that we just could not stop laughing! Finally after sitting in Au Bon Pain for nearly two hours we ran onto our train. The train ride wasn't that bad. It was packed with trashed people and some of them started fighting with each other but other than that it was pretty uneventful. We finally got off at our stop. I get home and all the doors are locked! By this time it is like 5 in the morning and I'm stuck outside in the freezing cold. I ended up just calling the house phone and waking everyone up so that I could get in.
So as you have just read new Years was very interesting. Billy and I are already planning next years! We are going to have an all night praise and worship time with all young adults. It's going to be awesome! :)
So I guess that is it for now. Oh here are some pics from that night.
posted by Allison Ward @ 6:40 PM
2 Comments:
At 9:11 PM,
Anonymous said…
asian lady: "nanana na na na na naaa... miss! miiissss! miss yoh phone!!! misssss!! miss you dwopped yoh phooonnne!"
At 1:02 PM,
Kat said…
glad you had such a good time! I still wished you could've gone to onething with erin and I but it's clear the Lord wanted you there! Love you!
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