Many Things...

Ok so i havent written in a while so i have many different things to talk about... im thinking sub headings is the way to do it :) yes i shall use sub headings :)

-Volleyball-
In between two of our lectures (or maybe after... i cant remember) we all decided that we would play some volleyball. Coz we hadnt played in a while and volleyball is fun :)
Anyways, it was the funniest game ever because, when you made your team lose a point you had to do five push ups. It was so much fun. Poor Jordan had to do heaps of them coz he always made it go out lol. by the end he was struggling to do his push ups. Sometimes we also had to clap between push ups (which is really hard!) or eat some sand on your fifth push up or we just made them do heaps and heaps of push ups :) basically we just kept adding rules to make it ridiculous. Often we would be laughing so hard that we couldnt do the push ups at all lol. we just kind of held ourselves up while we laughed. Jess C at one point had tears in her eyes she was laughing so hard.
Sigh so much fun. It probably isnt funny for you guys to hear but believe me, it was hilarious. my sides ached from laughter. I love living here! lol

Melons!
The melons hate me. they actually go out of their way to make my life miserable. i had finally gotten to the stage where i could tell from looking at a melons colour if it was rotten or not... and then all of a sudden these ninja melons started appearing! the ninja melons hide themselves! they look and feel on the top like a good melon, but then when you put your hands under it to lift it up you realise that its disgustingly rotten! YUCK! I can no longer trust any melons! i roll half of them over now because im so paranoid about the rotten ones lol.
I had this one melon that looked fine, but when i lifted it up rottenness squirted out of a small hole in the top straight at my face! THE MELONS ARE FIGHTING BACK I SAY!! i say we burn the melons! stupid melons...

*Scripture*
On tuesdays i now teach scripture. its pretty good really. in the morning (first period) Georgie and Jewels (staff lady) teach grade 1&2, which is all boys! amazing. they are a great class though. and because i have nothing better to do in the morning i go help out with the class (as well as Anna who is another staff lady). Then, after we debrief on how the lesson went, Anna and i teach a grade 6 class. That was fun too. Pretty different to teaching 1&2 but its still pretty good. Overall the classes were really good. they were friendly and open, which is always a good thing :)
Oh. Jono (the minister dude) is with us for each lesson too. we are working with him in all the classes.
Next week for scripture Georgie and I have to run our classes. and its only our second week! im a bit nervous about it but it should be ok. i will just pretend im confident and dazzle them with my wit and charm so they love me :) and get stuff out of the class :)

CAMPING
So this weekend the guys all went camping with Phill and his daughters. It was pretty good really... although it did rain on us several times during dinner... and i forgot my rain jacket... and  we left Ethan and Josh in charge of getting the camp (which we shall never do again)... and we didnt really pack food real well... :) but overall it was really fun times lol
Our tent was a disaster though. Cornerstone has four tents at its disposal and so we were borrowing one. We sent Ethan and Josh to get one thinking that it wasnt too complicated of a job. Now one of the tents had broken poles and like no tent pegs in it, which we all knew, but we all assumed that it would be simple enough for Josh and Ethan to work out which one it was and choose another. We were so wrong. they had a 1 in 4 chance of choosing the wrong tent and they chose it. they even looked in it to check and still got it wrong lol. So, what that meant was we could try and assemble a tent in the conventional way using broken poles and 2 tent pegs or we could improvise. Tim was all for improvising so he took charge and made a makeshift tent. Basically we lay out the tent base on the ground and used the fly of the tent (outside part) to make a weird shelter above it. It kind of slanted from some trees down to the foot of one side of the tent on the ground. It looked alright when they made it and all the gaps were closed up and stuff so we were going to be protected from the wind rain and bugs so we were all proud of our amazing tent. How naive we were :)
The tent leaked, there were gaps for the mozzies to get in, it was boiling hot and they didnt remove all the rocks from underneath. It made sleeping difficult lol. i barely slept at all that night. it was either be hot under the covers and be safe from mozzieslol. not the best sleeping conditions...

^Waterfalls and the Dream^
The day after camping we had to go to these waterfalls. so we got up early and left at 9.30 after breaky. We then travelled to the church an hour or so away to meet the girls and the church youth people who we were trying to get to know. From there we went to the waterfalls, were people swam and jumped off the waterfalls etc for 2 hours. At least thats what im told we did...
i slept through all of it. coz i had barely slept the night before the car trip to the church put me to sleep... and i just kept sleeping. When we arrived at the waterfalls i told them that i would come in a second, fully intending to go up as soon as i had woken a bit more... well i fell asleep again lol.
but the funniest thing was was that i dreamt that i actually did get up to go the waterfalls! it was really convincing and i was disoriented when i woke to find i was still in the car. basically, in the dream, i walked up this track following the sounds of voices and laughter, to find myself on the top of this cliff type thing. and below the cliff was this massive blue lake type thing where people were swimming in after jumping off this cliff. oddly enough i also dreamt that there was this massive statue of a man on the top of the cliff, and it fell down into the water! almost squishing some people down there. i managed to warn the people it was falling though so everyone was fine (coz i had all of a sudden appeared at the lake shore where they could all hear me telling them of the statue). We all decided then that the statue had to be removed from the lake... so Tim calls all these dolphins, and the dolphins push the statue out of the water! I then notice that the statue is kind of fizzing from where the water touched it and Jordan and i speculate for a while as to what type of rock it is and why it fizzed, and we came to the conclusion that the reason the water is so blue is because the rock has a type of metal in it that has dissolved in the water to make the vibrant blue. lol! i then swam in the water for a while. i then woke up as i was talking to this girl who had the most amazing long blonde hair lol. the hair was so silky lol. and iw as talking to her when i woke up. needless to say i was very confused for a few seconds after realising that it had actually all been a dream :)
so funny lol

#Roomies#
i have a new roomy! Tim! hes so funny. best roommate ever. although i discovered that he sleep talks quite often and also snores occasionally. One night he was snoring so LOUD and i remembered Ruth telling me how she used to stop her roommate from snoring at uni by clapping or yelling or something to jolt them out of snoring. It didnt work for Tim. i clapped. i yelled. i thumped the floor. nothing worked lol. and i was at the point of going over there and poking him or something when he scares me half to heath by sleep talking. sleep yelling more like it though lol. he yelled out this "wow. WOW! thats TERIBBLE! Dixy hates it when its like that. They're too full! WOW!" and then he went totally silent again lol. and the snoring stopped! it was so funny. i had to smother my laughter with my pillow lol. i couldnt wait to tell him in the morning lol. (by the way, we havent figured out who Tim was talking about coz he doesnt know anyone named Dixy or even anything close to it lol. hilarious)

And i think thats about it for sharing about whats going on... wow i just scrolled up. i wrote a lot. i think now is a good time to stop lol.
goodnight :)

Week Five... Already? Wow.....

Ok.. I havent written in a while so i will quickly update you on events....
Paul left. :( Very sad. He didnt feel like this was where God wanted him. Which you can't really argue with...
Sam left. Going back to school apparently. Do year 11 and 12. That sort of thing. Which is good for him i guess...
Joshy Squashy came back. Which came as a surprise to most. We all thought he had left...
Beau is leaving this Friday coming for Bendigo...
This all happened on Saturday and Sunday. Busy weekend. We lost two fellas and gained one back.
Monday was touch footy. Heaps fun.
Tuesday night i had a flexi. Had dinner with Dave Dalton.
Today is Wednesday. Josh refused to go to work this morning. Dunno what that means...

Ok. Now that you are updated i shall go into more detail in the areas that interest me... :)
Pranks. I dunno who planted the idea to play pranks, probably partly my fault, but anyways... the pranks are coming out. And its hilarious...
Tim and i ofter throw the pollinator melons at eachother during work for laughs. After a few throws though it escalated to throwing melons already split, so the person got melon juice all over them. I got him good by wiping this melon all down his back. We both laughed and he was like "im gonna get you for that" and i knew that i would regret it pretty soon. I was right. Naturally. So what he did was get a half rotten melon, and wipe it onto my neck and chin! it was disgusting!! eugh! and he knew how much i hated melons, especially rotten ones. he was laughing away at my distress when i told him that i would make him regret it lol.
So... next time we went into Cowra for supplies, Jess C and i went into target and bought a whole heap of womens underwear. They were pink and lacy mostly, and there was this one massive pair of grandma ones. lol. Then, once we got back, i went into Tims room, stole ALL of his underwear (except what he was wearing of course), put them in a bag, and smuggled them to Jess, who put them in the girls section of the center where the boys can't go. I then replaced all his underwear with the girls ones. lol.
After getting back from footy training, he came in, speared me with his eyes and said loudly "Mark! Where are they!" lol. it was hilarious. He then proceeded to put me in a headlock and he and Sam dragged me into the guys rooms (guessing that thats where i hid them). They then started tickling me, singeing my leg hairs off, etc to get me to tell where they were. I ended up telling them that they would have to ask the girls because i gave them to them lol. His eyes widened a bit at that lol.
Amy ended up returning them to him. It was great though. Totally worth the $10 to buy the underwear.
Another prank that happened recently was spiking Sams coke with liquid laxatives. I dont know if i mentioned before, but Sam is addicted to coke. like seriously addicted. Unfortunately, or fortunately, he didnt drink it. The girls set up a chart for him for each day he didnt drink coke. And so Jordan ended up telling him what he and others did after a few days.
Carmel carries a mini Daddy Cool thing for her drinking water at work. And so what Jordan did one day was put a dirty rag, used for wiping melons, into her water. Then, while we were at the table eating lunch, I saw Carmel pour herself a drink from her Daddy Cool thing. I felt a moment of horror/hilarity and nudged Jordan. He took one look and burst out laughing. I held the laughter in for a few seconds, but when she lifted the cup to her mouth and took a sip i couldnt help it. Jordan and i were laughing so hard we had tears in our eyes. I then whispered to Chris what had happened, and he started laughing. Carmel caught on then and started asking what we had done. She discovered the rag a minute later after taking her Daddy Cool into the kitchen. So funny!
Tim and i were joking with Milly the other day about picking up a rotten melon and saying to Alf (our boss type person) "Hey catch!" and throwing it at him. Milly thought the idea was great and so with the next rotten melon she found she actually did it! She picked it up gingerly and walked ahead of the group a little, so passing a melon wouldnt be so suss, and yells at Alf "Hey Alfy! Catch" . Unfortunately he realised at the last second and so dodged most of it. i think he got some rottenness on his shorts but that was it. He appreciated the humour though. So good. Milly is a legend.
Carmel and Milly have also poured cold dirty water onto each other when one or the other was in the shower. Or thats what i gathered from their giggling recounts.
Sigh. Pranks are totally the best. Tim and i are planning something big to do to Jordan still :) cant wait!

What else has been going on around here... Well. Josh moved into Chris's room. Chris asked for him to be moved in with him. He has kind of decided to take him under his wing. He has been using the tough love type approach. It seems to be going well... maybe.
Beau leaves soon, which means no roommate for Mark. So I think Tim is moving in with me. So it will be Ethan and Jordan, Me and Tim, Chris and Josh (if he stays).
As i said earlier, Josh refused to go to work again. He also has refused to go to two lectures. I dont know what that means for him. It doesnt look like he will be staying at this stage. I dunno. Please everyone pray for him!
Oh we got our Tute's. Mine is James! Which im pleased about. It should be good. Im looking forward to spending more time with him.
Yesterday i was meant to teach scripture for primary so i got a flexi. Unfortunately scripture was cancelled so i didnt have to go. I figured i could work then, so i got up at 5 to work. And i actually wanted to work too. Heaps of fun people were going to be working so i was looking forward to working with them. Phil, however, had other ideas. He told me that i wasnt allowed to work! Even when i asked nicely. Sigh. So i had to have a day off. lol. i was actually disappointed for awhile. i was glad for it after sleeping an extra 2 hours though :) it was a good day. just relaxing the entire time. totally needed.
That night Dave Dalton took us out to dinner (as in the guys) to the Junction. And we all had a Mixed Grill. Imagine a plate covered in every type of meat you can think of... thats what we ate. with eggs. I was sooo stuffed afterwards. It was a good night though. Just the guys :) refreshing lol
Ok i have been typing forever and im hungry. so im going.
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Weird Dream...

So last night i had the weirdest most vivid dream ever. It was totally bizarre but it made sense at the time :) so i decided that i would record it so i never forget the details...
Ok. It began with Paul, Chris, Georgie, Carmel, Milly, Jess C, Jess W and I all going into the Dubbo Christian School hall for assembly. After sitting down together Carmel anounces that she needs to have a shower. Paul, who all of a sudden is the principal as well, says that if she waits until after he gives his principal speech he would drive her to his place so she could have a shower. Jess C, Jess W and Chris all then say they need a shower too and so its agreed that Paul will drive them after his speech. Carmel then leaves the hall, gets into Pauls red convertible and drives it to the exit of the carpark to wait for Pauls speech and the others. In my dream i watch her trying to drive the car but shes totally dodge at it and almost hits like every other car in the carpark. But Paul doesnt seem to mind that she could potentially damage his convertible... anyways... then Paul leaves (without making his speech for some reason) with Jess, Jess and Chris. They all get in the car with Carmel and drive off. Meanwhile, this woman up the front is getting us to sing the national anthem. So she gets us all to stand. But because everyone is talking and stuff she tells everyone to sit again. Then she makes us rise, but we are still unsettled so we have to sit again. etc. this happens like 5 times. On the last time she makes us sit again i start yawning and so miss everyone sitting coz of my closed eyes and yawningness. I then realise that im the only one standing and so quickly sit down.Unfortunately the woman up the front saw me... so, after we finally sing the anthem, she comes over to me and asks angrily "How dare you be so disobedient..." blah blah. i cut her rant off after a few seconds saying that i didnt disobey because i was yawning due to tiredness, from working the day before. She didnt believe me.
After those around me confirmed that i was telling the truth she says "Well then i will test you to see if you are lying or not." And then she gives me a pen and paper to answer her questions on. Her first question was "How good do you think your handwriting is?" Which is such a stupid question to ask as it is totally irrevelant. So, understandably, im getting angry too at this stupid woman asking stupid questions.
Im trying to answer write down an answer but for some reason my words are all meshing together. So i start giggling away knowing that she is getting anoyed at me as i try writing my answer, then cross it out, then write, then cross, etc. Eventually, after getting her very anoyed, i manage to write "is this good enough?" I then ask her why she asked such a stupid question and she explains that she will be firing random weird questions at me and then will catch me by surprise by asking the REAL question. Then, caught of guard, im meant to answer truthfully. Whats even funnier is that in my head this made perfect sense and i had this "OH!" moment in my head lol.
Anyways, she then leaves, telling me that i have to go see the Counsellor before the next assembly.
Then, Alyssa, who is all of a sudden some important person in the school, goes up the front and tells everyone that we are going to have an hour break before the next assembly.
So we all march out.
Oh! and Alyssa also said that we had to go to see the principal during the break.
So im left with this delemma of needing to go see the Counsellor AND the Principal in the next hour. I kind of wander around for a while in indecision and then decide to go to the office to find out what i should do.
Turns out Milly is the office lady. And when i ask her what i should do about my delemma she smiles smugly saying "Well you cant do both can you" and grins wickedly coz she knows im getting in trouble either way. I then say "you enjoyed telling me that didnt you" and she said yes with a grin.
(i know! weirdest dream...)
Georgie then walks in. And funnily enough she is magically the Councellor! So i decide to go with her to have my councilling session seeing astechnically Paul the Principal isnt even here.
The dream then ends with me and Georgie trying to convince this annoying little dude to leave the hall coz we are having out session in there.... the boy then leaves...
and i wake up!
Thus concludes the weirdest dream of my life! and while i was dreaming it, it made total perfect sense! lol. so funny.

Week Four!

Josh left on Friday :( Its very sad. And Beau is leaving soon for team... so I'm giong to lose all my roommates. Maybe i should be getting an understanding out of it all... maybe I'm a people repeller. lol.
Anyways. it is very sad about Josh. And if everyone who reads this blog could pray for him that would be wonderful. Hes struggling. So please everyone pray for him.
We were meant to have a guys retreat weekend last weekend but.... because of the rain i prayed so hard for came, we all had to work on Saturday :( We still went on the camp though. All the guys went to a waterfall and camped at a campsite overnight. The view from the top of the waterfall was amazing. And there was a madness cave behind the waterfall that we went into. So cool.
However. We were told, or maybe we just assumed, that it would be really hot over the weekend. So many of us didn't pack for cold weather. Some of us (including myself) didn't pack sleeping bags. And most of us didn't bring jumpers. Well.... turns out that it was forecast to be a cold wet weekend. So we were cold that night... i wore three shirts to try and stay warm during the night, and slept with a towel for a blanket. Mmmm. How cosy! It wasn't too bad though. Tim was sleeping next to me and he had a sleeping bag, so he got really hot. At one stage during the night i felt the heat behind my back and so moved closer, putting my back against his arm, and it was so warm! i couldn't believe it! lol. and then i moved someones mattress half on me to use as a blanket. So i slept alright considering...
Oh! The funniest thing. In the middle of the night Tim started muttering, waking me up, and he said clearly that he couldn't go do something because "i have to go pick melons" !!! lol it made me chuckle so bad. I'm obviously not the only one traumatised by melons lol.
Us guys all had a good conversation though. About manliness and guys in general. If you've read it, think "Wild at Heart" and you will get the general idea of the conversation. It was good.
Monday we got another day off coz of rain. YAY! Well the people who work at the Galleas got a day off (which is me) so we got to relax all day. Well in the afternoon we got to relax at least. In the morning we had two lectures. Which were amazing by the way! James gave the lectures and they were on "Radical Discipline". Sigh. I love lectures :) Who would have thought there was so much to following the dude we call Jesus :)
I got sick Monday afternoon though :( I'm not sure why though. i suspect it could have been the amazing half of a milkshake i had. or something. so yummy :) unfortunately that meant i was unable to play touch footy. which our team lost at. again. i think we are setting a trend here. maybe, if we are lucky, we might some day play a team with only 3 players, meaning that we win a game for once! lol. wishful thinking i think :)
On Monday we also visited this really weird cafe that was also a shop. My mother would love it i reckon. She will have to check it out when she visits. But it had, on this bed, this crazy doll thing that looked half like a woman and half like a gorilla! It scared a few of us when we saw it lol. We were like "what is THAT!" lol. i wonder if i can upload photos on this thing... i probably can. I should go back, take a picture, and post it so you can all appreciate the creepiness of the doll.
Ok. I will end the blog here as its dinner time. Georgie cooked. Beef casserole or something. And food has priority over blog so.....
Goodbye
ps. oh and all the guys shaved their hair off :)

Week Three...ish?

We were told yesterday that if it rained too much we wouldn't be able to work today, due to mud and tractors not mixing well or something. So last night and this morning i prayed that it would rain enough for us not to work. However, due to lack of substantial amounts of rain i was forced to accept that we would have to work today :(
In focus time (like a mini devo before work), Tim prayed for it not to rain so that we could work. So after the prayer i was like "Tim! You are praying against my prayer! I've been praying for lots of rain so we cant work!!" Everyone thought this was amusing and so were laughing when Phil (our work boss) announces "Well it worked. We cant work today." !!! Jordan (who had also been praying for the same thing) then jumped up and danced and hugged and laughed lol. We were all pretty excited. Best surprise ever!
So what has been happening since the last time i wrote.... umm... Sam and Ethan arrived. Sometime yesterday im pretty sure. They are pretty cool. They are apparently both also into footy and they are both only 16. At the moment Ethan is sleeping in Jordan and Tims room, while Sam is sleeping in the room with Chris and Paul. And Sam has pet snakes! He has two Childrens Pythons and they are awesome! They girl is only 10cm and the guy maybe 20cm. They are the coolest ever and i totally want one! Coolest pet in the world! Apparently Sam takes Valek (male snake) everywhere with him, even to the movies lol. So cool! And after Beau leaves there might be a room shuffle, meaning Sam might be in my room coz Paul is terrified of snakes. It will be so awesome! lol. i hope the snakes get to be in my room :)
At the moment we are all preparing for a community meal that we (students) have to organise and run. Its a hospitality assignment so we all have to be very hospitable. At the moment i can see the majority of people making kebabs in the kitchen. i should probably be helping... lol oh well
Chris and I had dinner with the Webbs on Tuesday. It was pretty fun. Xanthe made me read another story to her lol. Shes so cute. and the book she chose was a really long one. towards the end i kind of just made it up seeing as she couldnt read anyways lol. The meal was amazing though. and so was the dessert. it was amazing!
I just had the nicest slice thingy ever. it was a passionfruit lime slice thing made by Jewels. Tastes so goooood!
Dani stuffed her ankle the other night. She, Tim and i were all doing the olympic walk thing along the driveway and when Dani stopped, she slid on a big rock and damaged something. It doesn't look like a break but is too bad to be a sprain. Thinking its a ligament or something. I don't actually know...
I got a little more sleep last night. YAY! i got like 8 hours. and then i got another hour sleep today. go sleep!
Oh. By the way. i have decided that i am suffering from a disease. Its very serious. They call it MELLONITIS.  it may prove fatal. the symptoms include...

• melons haunting dreams
• seeing melons where there are none
• feeling sick at the smell or taste of melons
• paranoia of melons being rotten
• thinking melons are watching them
• believing there is a melon behind you when there isnt

Yes. I definitely suffering from mellonitis. its very sad. youo probably wont recognise the Mark you used to know...
Ok. Here ends my blog post. Mainly because they are about to play Junglespeed and Junglespeed definitely has priority over log writing :)
Bye!