Murder Mystery

Yesterday after dinner we had a contest to come up for names for a campus Azusa is thinking of starting in San Diego which will be much like High Sierra, only warmer. It will be a small community of students doing outdoor activities like surfing and rockclimbing and, well, things like that. Today after chapel they announced the winner. One of my suggestions, Destination Diego, won. Woo! I feel like I never win things, haha, so that was pretty exciting. I won a package of oreos. They're gone now. I had some, then I put them out in the lobby, and five minutes later they were history.

After chapel I went up on Star Rock, a hill behind the dorms where cell phone reception isn't 100% obsolete. There's this side of Star Rock that's kinda closed off from the main part by bushes, and that's where the girls go to read and tan. I finished Erasmus and Luther's Discourse on Free Will today and made a dent in Three Cups of Tea--all while getting a tan! That's one of the things I was pleasantly surprised with about High Sierra: it's actually warm here. Like, you can wear shorts and T-shirts during the day and be fine. At night it gets chilly and there's usually frost in the morning, but in the afternoon during the winter you can tan. Isn't that crazy?! I love it. I also love how it's so beautiful here, but at the same time snow is around. I went for a four-mile trail run with some girls today, and some parts we had to run through snow. It's weird because it's there, but it's not really cold out...

Tonight after dinner we had a "murder mystery." I've never done one of those before, and actually had no idea what it was. For the version we did of it, we were all supposed to get dressed up ("glamorous" was the category), and then we wore headlamps and went around searching in the dark for clues (slips of paper that were hidden around camp). Unfortunately, I was murdered pretty soon after the game started--the unknown murderers sprayed people with water to kill them. I never even suspected the murderers, haha. But two of the people from our team solved the mystery before the murderers killed everyone, so it was all good.

Kenny and I Lookin Glamorous. Well...Kenny's wearing a fake bloodied trenchcoat. But I'm looking glamorous?

The group

Finishing up my Friday night by watching 27 Dresses...it was a successful day, Sparky.