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Summit Meeting

12 October 1997

This weekend at Austin was really super productive and super fun.

I picked up Jason F in a rental car at about 6:45pm Friday. He practically bounced out the front door, goin' "West Side Prepatory! Come Again!" The craziness had begun. He was wearing nothing but a towel around his waist, as he had just taken a shower, making the scene much funny.

We stopped by a gas station to get food. As soon as I parked the car, Jason jacked the keys out of the ignition, since I didn't let him drive. I got a a bar-b-cue sandwich, a king sized KitKat, and two 12-ounces of Surge. Jason got beef jerky and something else and a beverage. Always Surge and KitKat for me a beef jerky for Jason.

Jason ran outside so he could drive. To get the keys back, I simply told him I wouldn't get in the car, and pointed out that he didn't know how to get to Austin.

On the way to Austin, mostly Jason told me all kindsa crazy experiences he's experienced. Ask him for details.

I apparently didn't know how to get to the church in Austin, and we drove up and down most of 35 twice to find Koenig. Turns out we weren't far enough north and I had heard that Airport intersected Koenig, so I just took Airport.

Got to the church around 11:30pm and Jon D and JoEllen W were the adults still there waiting for an adult on YAC to arrive. I could not fuckin' believe it that they hadn't just given the keys to Jeremy or Tia!!!!

As soon as I got they keys and they left, I gave them to Jeremy. I didn't want to be in charge of the keys!

We drove to Taco Cabana to get some food and then munched and talked back at the church until Arlene D and Aaron I arrived.

We played and played the first night. Jason and Jeremy walked to the Blockbuster about 3 blocks away to get a movie (it was closed since it was 1am) so we just stayed up playin' hackey sack and I don't even remember what else, except the funniest thing I remember from that night was when Jason, Austin, Jeremy, Tia all dog piled onto Aaron, shouting "crush Aaron's dude!" "Crush his dude!" That was hilarious.

I think we just hung out and talked and played all night until I went to bed about 3am and the boys were all still playing roudily until like 4am. Crazy fun.

8am we woke up at the insistence of my beeper alarm and cleaned up the room we had trashed and got prepared for the meeting. Tia had woken up at 7am to take a shower and get bagels, Jason, Aaron and I played hackey sack, and next thing we know the meeting is ready to start.

The meeting lasted from 9 to 4. (we did have a couple breaks)

Basically we redesigned District YAC: 8 youth serving 1 year terms; 2 youth-elected advisors to serve 2-year terms, staggered by a year to help continuity; 1 board appointed adult and 1 RE board appointed adult, each to serve 2 year staggered terms.

Then we went through the bylaws and fixed some of the wording and redesigned some portions of them.

We plan to present the new bylaws to the YRUU at San Antonio Rally, October 31 weekend, then the board will vote on them at their meeting in November, and then it should be all good and we'll have new bylaws that put YAC on the district map. YAC will be fully recognized by the adult congregation and so youth empowerment will not be empowerment in a vacuum, as Jon D described the present state of the District YAC.

The meeting was all good.

At about 5 or 5:30 in the pm, several of us decided to go shopping in Austin. The first place we went was a leather, latex and bondage shop; I don't remember the name. I got a blindfold, and the youth were all like, Woah, Rob.. and I said, It's for a haunted house. They were all Suurrre.. good story Rob. I said Thanks!

The we went to a place called Bohemian Boutique (I think). They sold a bunch of old-ass clothing and vinyl and masks and furniture and eye glasses and everything. I got a groovy round pillow with circles quilted onto one side of it. I'll use it for meditation and other sitting activities.

Then to the strip we went to shop for CDs. (Oh- did I tell you it was raining all day? It was raining all day. Always more than just a sprinkle, and sometimes fairly hard.) We finally found a parking space and went first to Technophilia, a small CD shop crowded with discs and people. I spent a great deal of time talking with the owner about various CD stuff, and told him my CD purchases were at an all time low as I am getting ready for my trip in August. We talked about the importance of exploration during life and following one's dream. Pretty cool guy; I got his email and URL www.technophilia.com permalink