Categories: festivals
Tags: Greenbelt, wibmeet, music, Christianity, random
Date: 28 August 2007 15:35:51
Back in Wales now (I head back to Moldova at stupid o'clock tomorrow morning). HD is working from home so we are doing our familiar his 'n' hers laptops in the living room thing.
We actually left last night so I am blogging having actually had a decent night's sleep (Sunday night/Monday morning's sleep was not decent at all, too cold and our tent was on a lumpy slope so I had a ridge in my hip and kept waking up halfway down the tent). I'm trying not to think about going back tomorrow (argh, too much to do!) so will think about Greenbelt instead.
For me, I think this has been my best Greenbelt for ages. I encountered God, I met good people, I chilled out, I relaxed, and feel like life is pretty good right now. I've mentioned the Trance mass already which was wonderful, and other highlights include Kando Bongo Man (utterly joyful and infectious), a very interesting seminar by my old vicar on genealogy, the wibsite get-together (including getting together with kerensa of Lost in Translation and Real Life fame and fortune), meeting up with London church people on Monday, amongst lots of other highlights. Oh and Beer and Hymns! How could I forget Beer and Hymns? It was fabulous, and I agree with sophs that it really was worship at its best! Disappointed to miss Peterson Toscano though, everyone I know who went raved about it. But the queue was so long, it was full up long before we got anywhere near the venue.
There were some cool kites yesterday too, I took lots of pictures. I think the rainbow ray was my favourite, though the gecko was cool too.
Lowlight was probably the salsa - we were persuaded by a friend (who also went) that the salsa lesson was fun, so we pitched up to find the CMS tent heaving with people, and to be honest I didn't think the teacher was very good - she probably hadn't expected that many people, and seemed to be assuming either that everyone had at least a bit of a clue of what to do (we didn't) or that we would pick it up really really quickly with minimal instruction (we didn't). After not very long I had all sorts of flashbacks to school PE lessons when I was just as uncoordinated and dorky and just-not-getting-it, and so we left because I thought I would end up needing therapy if I stayed. So that was sad, but maybe we'll try again some other time.
I think I need to write some streams of consciousness in my (occasional) (well, that's an exaggeration - virtually unused more like) written diary about what happened inside this year, and maybe I'll give you the selected highlights of that some other time. But yeah - a good Greenbelt this year, very good indeed. Looking forward to next year already.