About five years ago, when I was ten, my Sunday School pastor asked me if I would like to join the worship team. Since then, every once a month I worship as a singer in front of the Sunday School kids. When I was younger, I was more hyper. I had more energy to jump around. But these few months, maybe because I am old, I would be exhausted jumping for a few minutes. Waking up early, singing and jumping around takes a lot of energy, usually when I get home I fall to my bed.
After graduating Sunday School, I volunteered with my friend to assist kindergarten students. Kindergarten kids are very naughty and would never listen to us. Eventually, I became a teacher for Sunday School. Unfortunately I wasn't able to teach the kids, without adults with support, kindergarten kids are uncontrollable. So I moved to toddler two and three. Toddle two is a very peaceful class; the kids don't scream, they just eat and play. Most of them has their babysitter with them. Toddler three is okay. They don't have babysitters with them but they are quiet. Most of them still don't know how to talk much.
I love small kids so much. One day in April, I was asked if I would like to be a camp leader for a group. Of course, I accepted it. I have been joining almost all the Sunday School camp since the age of eight. I was very excited to be a leader. It wasn't as easy as I thought it would be. We had many meetings, we had to think of a devotion too. Time flies, it was already June 23, Camp JoDa. It was my first time to meet my camp kids, in my team. There were many kids I didn't know, especially the older kids. We woke up at 5 am and slept at 2 am for the past 2 days. It was very tiring, but come to think about it, I experienced many things. And I know how much nice it is to be young. The kids ran up the hill, 50 minutes trip to the waterfall. They had so much energy, I couldn't run up the slope like the kids did. All the leaders were at the very back, walking up very slowly. Some boys were carrying the kid's bag too. The last day, I had lost my mood. I wanted to go back to sleep in my own comfy bed. But when the kids in my team came to me and sang songs, gave me a massage, gave me a hug and thanked me, I was very happy. I never felt like that before, and last, when the kids gave me a hand-made bracelet it was just too nice.
Even after camp, when i meet them, they would smile at me and show the shoelaces; which symbolizes my team 'Shoelaces'. I thank God for all the opportunity he has created for me. :)
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