I've said it on Facebook, but it's worth reiterating here. I am rather (very) fond of high schoolers... and middle schoolers, and elementary schoolers for that matter. But, seeing as I spent twelve hours with a group of them yesterday, we'll stick with high schoolers for the moment.
Those kids voluntarily paid money to wake up early on a Saturday and spend the day doing manual labor -- everything from digging trenches and shoveling rock to pulling weeds and painting skate ramps. I'm not sure of the final numbers, but we made food for seventy people, leaders included, which probably means that something just under half of the kids who are involved in youth group showed up for the event.
Being as I have seemingly taken up the role of "that one person who looks too old to be a student but too young to fit in with the other leaders," I got to hang out with them all day doing yard work at a center for the blind, setting up chairs for the all-church tailgate party, and timing lots of trips up the rock wall at CBRC after all of the work was done.
All those years of working at camp and teaching Sunday school are proving to be useful, in that, even though I've been gone for all but four months of the last three years, I'm not a total stranger to most of the youth group...which makes the whole randomly-showing-up-at-youth-group-events thing much less awkward. Now I just have to pretend to be a responsible adult!
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