Kinship Kampmeeting ~ Day 2

Truly an amazing day.

Here is an outline written quickly before I forget it all.  I will try to develop it more later.

Didn't go to the early morning devotion and exercise....I was keeping my addiction from rusting!

Morning Mtg: Beth G. was fantastic.  What touching stories...especially about her brother coming out to her just last fall.  She showed us a picture of her "beautiful brother".  (OMG, but he is gorgeous!)  Also very touching about her retired-SDA-pastor-father who now wants to be an advocate for gays and lesbians in the church.  WOW!

Business Mtg: A bit long, but actually quite interesting.

Lunch: One of the servers is Asian and so f**king cute and I'm sure gay.  I kept eye flirting with him.

2-4 pm: "Sandro D." gave a presentation about a paper he did dealing with homophobia and religiosity.  A bit long but quite well presented.  I'm quite fascinated by Sandro.  He is 25 and 100% pretty boy...beautiful eastern-European-Bel-Ami-model looks.  I was left with a major curiosity as to weather or not he is gay.  He neither confirmed nor denied it in his talk.  Hum....I have to figure this out!

4-6 pm: Film "Brother Outsider."  Very good, a story I had never heard about a man I had never heard of.  If you haven't seen it, you MUST!

Dinner: Sat at the table with Sandro, the gay male couple with two kids (via a surrogate), and others.  I still couldn't figure Sandro out.  Went to a short meeting for local coordinators.  I think I will try to do something when I get back to Korea, but don't know how much.  The cute Asian boy was there again.  I'm so in lust!  I actually gave him my numbers on a sheet of paper after dinner....no response so far...and feeling pretty stupid about it.  Oh well!

Evening Mtg: Changed to watching the film about the LDS church and Proposition 8 in California.  Very interesting and thought provoking....but not really enjoyable.

Evening Mtg 2: "Our Stories."  I hurried across the isle and got in the group with Sandro.  Very interesting story, OMG!  But that is all I can say until he graduates....you always have risks at SDA institutions.  The other stories were very interesting too...

Afterwards Seth and I talked for quite a while.  We are going to try to practice some piano duets tomorrow.

OK, I'm super tired now.  I hope this makes some sense.  It is more details than I planned on.

Kinship Kampmeeting ~ Day 1

I am at my first SDA Kinship Kampmeeting.

Why did I spend the money to come (well over $600)?

• I was logistically close anyway
• I was curious what it was about
• I wanted to be with "my own kind"
• I might meet someone that understands me
• This is something entirely for me and no one else and I deserve it!

July 21, 12:45 pm.  I met my ride close to my parents house.  Lesbian (obviously) mother and gay son.  Interesting visit on the way to the conference venue, about 1.5 hours drive.

We were here a bit early, but got checked in and registered.  The retreat center and hotel is VERY nice and the people seem very nice.

It is interesting to be in a place where you are assumed to be gay...LOL...no explanations required, but we do like to hear our stories, but I'm getting ahead of myself a bit.

I worked on my editing project until almost time for dinner.  Then dinner was a sit-down affair that was actually quite nice.  There were eight of us around the table.  It turns out they included the president of Kinship, the speaker for the evening and her partner, and a former pastor who is very involved in the running of the Kampmeeting.  The food was decent.  Main course was a sort of pumpkin filled ravioli with vegetables.

Evening meeting: Niki talked about ethics, justice and righteousness.  Good, but I don't really remember the real point now.

Afterward I payed for the rest of my fee and then talked quite a while to the "money man" and Daneen A.  Mr. Money pretty well pulled my entire personal history out of me, and he shared quite a bit (with several interruptions) about himself as well.  Certainly a very nice man, with a very interesting history with the church.

I stayed up too late channel surfing, so I need to get to bed on time tonight.