UU youth conferences
Emily Schaeffer
would love to chat about them.-Emily
Jonathan Cooper
I just recently went to my first conference and had quite a delightful
time. (This was the Wrath of Con, at the Orlando..)
We DJ'd and ran a dance that went amazingly, and it was absolutely
wonderful. I hope to do a dance at Miami in 2 months as well.
-jon
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Chip Olson
PVB...@prodigy.com (Emily Schaeffer) wrote:
>Does anyone out there go to UU conferences? Just wondering because I
>would love to chat about them.-Emily
Ping. I was in YRUU for seven years, up until the end of 1990, and since
then I've advised at a few conferences and have been active in C*UUYAN,
the young adult network.
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Michael Conlen
: I just recently went to my first conference and had quite a delightful
: time. (This was the Wrath of Con, at the Orlando..)
Truly a delightful time. I just wish I could have seen more of my friends
: We DJ'd and ran a dance that went amazingly, and it was absolutely
: wonderful. I hope to do a dance at Miami in 2 months as well.
I think I will see more people I know, let you DJ with Alex.
Philip Dyer Moore
>Does anyone out there go to UU conferences? Just wondering because I
>would love to chat about them.-Emily
>
Now I've got a couple of future YRUUers of my own. First Church in Houston
is under reconstruction and my post-teen college years absence from the
church is about over so I'll be back soon as a grup. The regional and
national conferences that I attended played a very big part in creating
my personal philosophy and my loyalty to the church.
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Matt Cable
: In article <3jsl8p$c...@usenetw1.news.prodigy.com>,
: PVB...@prodigy.com (Emily Schaeffer) wrote:
: >Does anyone out there go to UU conferences? Just wondering because I
: >would love to chat about them.-Emily
: Ping. I was in YRUU for seven years, up until the end of 1990, and since
: then I've advised at a few conferences and have been active in C*UUYAN,
: the young adult network.
Hey chip, weren't you at Summer's End a lot?
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Ruth J Fink-Winter
was such a relief to hang out with people who didn't think I was
terminally weird for a weekend every couple of months.
Continental conferences are a blast too, though it can be harder to get
to know people, and sometimes people get kind of weird after 3 or 4 days
with the same 50 people in a camp site (the infamous mid-conference
slump!). I met some great people, and went some places I never would
have otherwise.
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Chip Olson
mca...@emerald.tufts.edu (Matt Cable) wrote:
>Hey chip, weren't you at Summer's End a lot?
Yup... first in '86 (Timenot!), then went in '87, '89 and '90. What years
were you there?
Emily Schaeffer
psyched. Do you people who went to S E , do you know Sarah Ladner?
Emily
Emily Schaeffer
but I think that silent football has been around longer. I am really not
very good at wink, I don't think that I'm aggressive enogh, or something.
Emily
Sean Philip Korb
Ahhh. . .the good old days. . .
I played wink back in LRY, and I was under the impression that it had been
around for quite some time. In fact, at common ground II in 1980 (81?) we had
an enormous game that unfourtunately resulted in a broken ankle and two broken
noses. I guess we got too big too fast 8). Because of that, wink was almost
banned from our youth group (then YRUU) but cooler heads prevailed, and gentler
hands were employed. Wink is great fun, and it seems to have enough tradition
behind it to be considered a UU ritual, along with Phoophing (foofing?).
I kinda miss hand cream orgies though. . .
sean 8-)
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Matt Cable
: In article <3kkojj$b...@emerald.tufts.edu>,
: mca...@emerald.tufts.edu (Matt Cable) wrote:
: >Hey chip, weren't you at Summer's End a lot?
: Yup... first in '86 (Timenot!), then went in '87, '89 and '90. What years
: were you there?
'89 (just visited) and '90 (managed to survive the whole thing ;), and I
think I was in your men's group....with luke and arlo....
i came up with kim nichols, sara kennedy, arlo, etc...the whole CVD gang
hung out with beth ross a lot too.
Robert Hettinga
Korb) wrote:
:= around for quite some time. In fact, at common ground II in 1980 (81?)
we had
:=an enormous game that unfourtunately resulted in a broken ankle and two broken
:=noses. I guess we got too big too fast 8).
Fond memories of me slogging across a church floor, dragging a helpless
victim behind me... Just thinking about it makes my rug rash scars itch...
Cheers,
Bob Hettinga
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Matt Cable
: Hi, everyone!! I am hoping to go to Summers End this year. I'm really
: Emily
I remember her.....that was a while ago tho...
Chip Olson
>I played wink back in LRY, and I was under the impression that it had been
> around for quite some time. In fact, at common ground II in 1980 (81?) we had
>an enormous game that unfourtunately resulted in a broken ankle and two broken
>noses.
ouch! actually, I'm surprised that I never saw any serious injuries result from
Wink games... especially in NH/VT district, where the local rules permitted the
couples on either side of It (who are otherwise out of the round) to actively
block the incoming players away from It.
>I kinda miss hand cream orgies though. . .
Those are still around, or at least they were a few years ago.
John Iacoletti
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Harley Stenzel
Wink is a game of many forms.... However, the version that I saw most at
UU-type events is this one:
There's a person in the middle, and pairs of people in a circle around
the person in the middle. The role of the person in the middle is to
wink at people around the outside, at which point one member of the
pair winked to tries to get to the person in the middle, while the other
member of the pair tries to prevent their partner from reaching the middle.
When someone gets away, they switch places with their partner. When the
first person gets to the person in the middle, they switch places.
I hope this makes sense.....
--Harley
Sean Philip Korb
> Hey Sean -- nice duodenum! Now, could someone explain "wink" to me before
> I go nuts? Feel free to email if I'm the only clueless one around here ...
Why thank you John 8) May your guts never appear on your webpage.
Wink (as far as my crumbling memory serves) is played in a circle. To start,
one chooses a parner, and agrees whether to sit in front (facing the center)
or the back (facing the center, but with your partners head in the way).
Someone is inevitably (hopefuly on purpose) left without a partner and is "it".
Everyone sits down in this double circle, indian style, arms at the sides
(sometimes opting to give your partner a backrub, but that's technicaly a
foul). The lucky person that's "it" winks (or points if you are in a big
group and you only want to pick one pair for the monumental struggle) at
someone in the inner circle who promptly rushes towards the winker. The
person behind the winkee desparately tries to prevent the winkee from (taging
the winker in tame games or preferably,) kissing the winker somewhere on
the face (or other agreed spot). The winker can wink at multiple winkees if
desired, and there are an infinite number of variations on this titanic
endevour. Eventualy, the winker get's kissed, and then the winkee is the
winker's partner (innerness and outerness are usualy arbitrary) while the
poor sot with the rugburns all over himself (whoh! memories are clearer than
I thought) is "it" and the process begins again.
Wear clothing you care little for. Underwear can most often be a disadvantage.
Shoes are forbidden. Elastic waistbands lead to embarrassing moments.
Rug or grass burns are the norm. Usualy, virgin Phoophs are discovered during
gameplay, and immediately ummmmm. . .unvirginphoophed. Jewelry of any kind is
not reccomended (ouch). Be *certain* that all participants have parental
consent forms (not for wink playing, what they do not know will not hurt them)
with medical clauses. Usualy, a bandaid will fix the most severe injury,
but you never know.
Marie3333
>Everyone sits down in this double circle, indian style
I would recommend that in the future you refer to this style of sitting as
"cross legged" or "pretzel legged"; most of my family never sits this
way, and there are some who find the term down right offensive. (And for
those who decide to be offended at the request for PC language . . . I
warned you in the heading, so there :-). )
By the way, Wink sounds like fun. Never played it myself, but I was a
young YFCer -- whole different experience than LRY! I am now working with
UU kids; at what age would those of you with experience in this game
recommend it be introduced?
Marie Houck. All opinions subject to change without notice.