mission team rules!!!!!

i had the most awesomely cool weekend ever!! i went to finland with the mission team and it tottally rocked!! and now i'm gonna write about it in segments (i can't write it all in one sitting) so starting at the beggining...

on friday at lunch time me and my dad took a bus to tallinn which was, as all bus trips are, pure torture. me and my dad where squeezed into a little seat together along with his bag, my backpack and sleeping bag, and my drum. not in any way a comfortable experience. so then we get there and at the bus station they had this place where you could buy burgers, so we got so some. those were the most atrocious burgers i've ever had!! they mixed together ketchup and mayonaise and smothered it all over the burger, the thing, quite literally, dripped!! urg, that was sickening. so then Mrs. Wittenberg comes and picks us up and seems very interested in some of meaghans music that a friend had sent her. right away shes like saying the songs about pushing the fingers into your eyes to stop the pain and i just go "oh!! i know that song, thats the slipknot one!!", and meaghan gives me this look saying "shut up, shut up, shut up!!". and then of course i qeuitly hum the song and remember the lyrics..."i push my fingers into my eyes, cuz its the only way to slowly stop the ache!!", and then Mrs. Wittenberg puts on the song and i sing along. and this whole time meaghan is obviously not happy with me. but meaghan i doubt that you noticed this but i was thinking that maybe your mom would not freak at this music if she knew that i listen to this music too, so i was kinda trying to help you. but man, i love it when you make that face, you know that "chris i'm gonna kill you face", that is so beutiful!! lol. sorry i got away from my point there.

so then we dump meaghan and go get all the rest of the mission team and go to the ferry, and besides some minor passport problems with one of the russian speakers all went well. and so then we get on the boat we start to explore of course, and what do we find? karoake and dancing!!! so of course we have to try out the karoake and so me, tanel, sarah, and evilin sang that backstreet boys song "everybody". and so despite the fact that evilin was the only one who actually knew the whole s0ng we had an awesome time singing anyway. and then we danced. so what if we were dancing in a bar, so what if there where some drunk guys sitting at one of the tables, and so what if the band's guy drummer had 2 girlie looking braids (i find it personally insulting when i see a freaky looking drummer becuase, seeing as how i am one, i think all drumers should look good)!! we danced anyway. and part way through some lady started dancing with us, becuase we were dancing the mission team line dance. and then a few more started dancing, then half the people in the whole place started dancing with us!! that was awesome, dancing our missiong team dance on the boat and having a bar full of people dance with us.

so the we got there kati was there to pick us up and, man, was it great to see her! so then we went and moved into our "mission team apartment", we had a whole floor of what i believe is the headquarters of the salvation army in finland (correct me if im wrong). and man it was so great to walk in there and see miika, maria, and jennika there to greet us. and so then we unpacked, moved in, and made ourselves comfrotable. and between hanging out with a bunch of friends and listening to music on sarah's "baby" (her CD player) it was a great night. and after a pillow fight and an excercise seesion where miika challenged us to do 100 push ups (i did 4) we dropped dead and slept.

and then next day...*yawn*...aw man, i'm tired. i'll right mor later, Cya.