It was a great thing that I didn't have wifi throughout the trip, but the negative is that I'm coming up with these posts from memory which many of you know is not great. haha.
Saturday after we arrived was our training day for the camp, in which we spent the morning at the Risttee offices talking about the logistics of the camp and what we could expect, including a little cultural training and worship time. Betti led us in some singing before camp - she was a student during my English Camp in 2008 and not yet a leader at the time and now she has really stepped up as a leader not only in singing but also in leading people to know God and worship him with their hearts. This is really cool.
And then... part of the cultural training, which included blindfolding the six of us Americans up and introducing us to a little Estonian food. It was a good thing that they blindfolded us because there was some crazy stuff they made us try, including "gelatin meat" which looks unappealing to me and after trying it... it was. I couldn't get it down... I tried, but as soon as my brain tried to tell my mouth to swallow my stomach went into "reject sequence" and I managed to use up my napkin early because the gelatin meat was the second thing they made us try, and we had six samples on our agenda. Fortunately, the last four weren't so bad, and the fourth was a cheesecakey chocolate bar which is one of my favorite candies from Estonia so I was glad to end on a high note.
We finished up the day with hanging with our Estonian hosts and the guys went to sauna at Peep's place and some of the guys that were going to camp hung with us. It was a good time. Sauna is where the world slows down, and it was a good time.
And... I slept great that night, which was really needed given how little sleep I was going to get at camp :)
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