Let's post some mail

I want to start off by thanking everyone who has commented. It means a lot to me to read those, you have no idea. Bro, the BTinLC quote was perfect to hear. Also, if you are interested you should talk to mom and dad about coming up with them to my commisioning in just 3 weeks. The week after jenny will be in rockford. Brian, I couldn't post on your blog because the service you use no longer works. You'll wanna change what you use for that. I really hope I'll be able to get on the phone soon with both of you. I've only been able to squeeze in a few calls so far. Not to mention those are hard because I'm usually exhausted by the time I have any free time.

So I leave tomorrow for camp. I'll be at camps for approx. the next 4 weeks. Yeah. I want to send you guys mail! And of course recieving mail would be cool too. It's called correspondence and it's way the in thing these days I assure you. So drop me one eh? And post comments containing your mail addresses so I can send you stuff. Immediate family members...I have yours already and you'll be getting mail from me soon. My mail address all year will be:

Jason Gorski, New Vision
c/o Youth Encounter
3490 Lexington Ave. N.
Shoreview, MN 55126

So kick it. I feel like I've done a lot of laughing the past days, but what I find oddest is that everything comes at me so quickly in this environment it is really hard to even think of something to post about. I made a basket from the opposite free throw line today. One of only three guys, I got applause, it was cool...yeah I liked it. I feel like it's high school sometimes here lol. You nastolgic people will enjoy knowing that I told the story about the 2 paddie-wagons being called on us while filming a super-hero adventure. It's one of the first stories I've told about my friends back in Rockford. The two worlds are definitely disjointed, neither really knowing much about the other. It'd be different if my contact with all you Rockfordians were consistent during this time. I think even if I came home right now it would take me a couple days to get re-acclaimated.

I definitely posted some new pictures. We came across a huge super-target on our way to get ice cream the other day and I took a picture of my team standing in the middle of a huge red bullseye drawn on the concrete in front of the store. I also found a water tower that said Blaine and my team was late in returning to training because they wanted to allow me a good picture of it.

Tonight we had group pictures in which we were all supposed to be "dressed up." Of course, I brought a nice dress shirt and tie, but upon inspecing my team members I felt apt to wear a short-sleeved pearl inlay snap shirt that I'd wear any other day. Later in the day we went on our first team outing. It was pretty cool. We went bowling and bumped in to another team that decided to do the same thing. So what did we do? Took a picture of us brawling like out of the West Side Story or the Outsiders. I don't know if I was Sosh or a Greaser? We ate at Chilis and then stopped by Guitar Center. Overall, it went rather well. We still are not entirely comfortable with each other's humors etc. However, I do think it will get there. Despite this confidence in our ability to gel as a team, I also foresee frustrating times ahead. We took personality tests and everyone on our team was different. We had no one that matched personality types and we were the only team that had that result. This should prove to be the source of our strength as well as our challenges as a team. I didn't like the tests that much. I think it may force us in to rigid roles which the team has already decided would be a bad thing. I mean, people can now defend what roles they assume or don't assume by saying "I'm [a such and such] personality."

So you're all wondering what I scored...Well here goes, from memory. I'll give you the number I scored in each category and then explain my overall pairings. We still have yet to recieve information about what our specific combo. of letters means, but eh?

6 - Extraverted
5 - Introverted

8 - Sensory
12 - iNtuitive

16 - Thinking
4 - Feeling

13 - Justifying
7 - Processing

I'm a ENTJ. Extroverts think outloud instead of thinking what they are going to say completely through before offering anything to a conversation (yes), they also supposedly get energized by being around other people (no). Intuitives don't rely on sensual queues to determine what is going on, instead they intuitively know what is going on (yes). Thinking people is obvious. Justifying people seek to justify their actions, they are more interested in the completed product rather than the process itself (yes). The also tend to make lists (yes).

Now this test was definitely right-on about a lot of things. The leader said that NTs (inuitive thinkers) tend to have a lot of anxiouty about certain social situations. They have intuition about how someone is feeling etc. but trust themselves enough to act on it. This is completely true for me. I often sense that someone is upset with me, or trying to tell me something with their body language and yet, I don't trust those feelings enough to act on them. Instead I rely on them to verbally tell me what I already know. Totally true. I was one of only 4 people who were ENTJs out of like 40 people or something. And he said that people of my combination typically invent things, start new businesses, and are good leaders. In the past I think I've definitely gone the leadership route, and my goal is to start a gaming company some day, and I always have those crazy ideas for inventions. So I'm thinking this is probably pretty right on.

Anyway...this whole thing is way way way way too long, but I thought I might give you just a slice of what my days consist of. I also talked to some Aussies the other day about Aussie slang since I'm going over there, that was entertaining.

okay, love you all. I'll probably post again in like 3 weeks or something...we'll see.

love you all.
in Christ,
jason