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Celebration.
At 7:30, a group of my friends and I went to Gabby and Mari’s house in the Universidad
Norte neighborhood, for a 'surprise' party for our friend Merphran. When we
arrived, we were told to park out of sight, so Merphran wouldn’t be suspicious.
A group of about 15 people huddled in the kitchen waiting to surprise him. Meanwhile,
Gabby and Mari distracted him by moving him through several rooms in the house,
and almost escorting him to the kitchen for us to ‘surprise’ him. Needless to
say, he wasn’t surprised in the least. Especially since my birthday had been
only this Monday, and the group had used similar tactics (how do you surprise
someone by taking them to someone else’s house, and not telling them what
for?).
During the party, we had popcorn, chips, cokes, while some people played ping pong, others
watched the movie Armageddon, and some were filling out a personality test we
all got at church.
Afterward we all gathered together to play a hilarious grapefruit race. Four teams of
four guys or girls lined up to pass a grapefruit from the front to the back of
the line and back again without dropping the grapefruit. The catch of the game:
no hands, no arms, no feet. We had to pass the grapefruit using only our chins
and necks. Do I have to describe what happened any further?
After this, we played a mummy race in two teams. Each team chose someone to be the mummy,
and proceeded to bandage him with toilet paper, trying to cover all of his body
in a minute. After time ran out, the rules changed, and each team had to
protect their mummy against the other, and try to destroy the other team’s
mummy. This game ended in a tie.
After a while, Gabby brought out a cake and we all sang, in eager anticipation of the
battle that would soon begin. This time, however, although Merphran was the
victim, he didn’t get soaked, but smeared with icing all over his face, glasses
and hair. He became a blind lunatic, and looked the part, with his hair messed
up into a mane, and his face white with frosting. He charged everyone in his
path, and smeared me with icing, although I was an innocent bystander
(honest!).
After the games we got together on the steps of the house and prayed for Merphran. I told
him that he’d become an irreplaceable friend, and that God had carved out a
special place for him in our hearts.
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