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.
Friday, February 11, 2011
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
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 :)
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 :)
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
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...
Ok. Here ends my blog post. Mainly because they are about to play Junglespeed and Junglespeed definitely has priority over log writing :)
Bye!
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
Ok. Here ends my blog post. Mainly because they are about to play Junglespeed and Junglespeed definitely has priority over log writing :)
Bye!
Friday, January 28, 2011
Weekend Number Two...
Happy Belated Australia Day everyone! lol. Aussie day was awesome. we got off work 2 hours early and went to the park for kids activities. every year canowindra runs a boring ceremony thing where they give awards to people who are amazing and some well known person gives a speech.... basically the only people who ever turned up were the people receiving awards and old dudes lol. this year however, we got permission to run kids activities to attract families and stuff. it was so much fun! we did facepainting (which i am amazingly talented at :) ) and baloon animal making (fairly good at that) and played games (i didnt get to play any) and a pinata (which i dont know how to spell but its that paper mache thing full of lollies that children hit). the kids loved it and so did we. so good
so exhausted! work is so hard man. and i am so sick of watermellons! im not sure if i already told you or not but now, whenever i close my eyes, i see watermellons! and then the other night i prayed in desperation "God make me let it go!". i then imagined myself dropping the mellons lol. im not sure if thats an overactive imagination or Gods sense of humour shining through. i like to think God was being funny :)
thursday was by far the worst work day so far. it was super duper hot and we had to work an extra hour to start making up for the lost hours on aussie day. i had to work extra hard too coz Tim Wagstaff was on his first time and got exhausted, so i had to pick half of his coz he kept missing them and then he ended up having to leave coz he was going to pass out. i was also really tired already so the day was just soooo hard. 3/4 of the way through the day Beau looked over at me and was like "wow. Marks gone white" and i stayed completely white until like half an hour after we finished. i got to the stage of stumbling as i walked and vision receding when i stood up too fast lol. i told myself i could do it though and refused to quit. and i made it! so proud of myself lol. and then Phill, coz hes a legend, gave me the next day off! lol. i slept in until 8! so good lol.
work was easier today (saturday) coz it was cooler. itfelt longer though for some reason. it just dragged on and on. i had been praying that God would renew me, physically and spiritually and he must have answered coz i just felt so great all day. even though i was physically tired i felt great. i even found myself encouraging others :) totally unlikely right?! me. encouraging *grin*
we have our first assignment this afternoon. well actually its a practice assignment. its on hospitality. hospitality is really important we have discovered. and our assignment involves preparing a meal and having people over for dinner. our practice tonight is at the park and the food we are having smells soooo good! we are having a green salad, potato salad and a pasta salad thingy. it might not sound good but it looks and smells amazing!! you people reading should be sooo jealous lol.
oh. our Korean student arrived this week. her name is Saerom. shes pretty cool and its really fun talking to her. we are having fun learning korean words and phrases lol.
we also have two new guys coming. Sam and Ethan. one of them arrives tonight and the other arrives some time next week i assume. i dont know anything about them... i will update peoples about them when i meet them :)
ok i should probably go help in the kitchen a bit... i will write another blog some time later. when i have time. which i dont have much of lol
so exhausted! work is so hard man. and i am so sick of watermellons! im not sure if i already told you or not but now, whenever i close my eyes, i see watermellons! and then the other night i prayed in desperation "God make me let it go!". i then imagined myself dropping the mellons lol. im not sure if thats an overactive imagination or Gods sense of humour shining through. i like to think God was being funny :)
thursday was by far the worst work day so far. it was super duper hot and we had to work an extra hour to start making up for the lost hours on aussie day. i had to work extra hard too coz Tim Wagstaff was on his first time and got exhausted, so i had to pick half of his coz he kept missing them and then he ended up having to leave coz he was going to pass out. i was also really tired already so the day was just soooo hard. 3/4 of the way through the day Beau looked over at me and was like "wow. Marks gone white" and i stayed completely white until like half an hour after we finished. i got to the stage of stumbling as i walked and vision receding when i stood up too fast lol. i told myself i could do it though and refused to quit. and i made it! so proud of myself lol. and then Phill, coz hes a legend, gave me the next day off! lol. i slept in until 8! so good lol.
work was easier today (saturday) coz it was cooler. itfelt longer though for some reason. it just dragged on and on. i had been praying that God would renew me, physically and spiritually and he must have answered coz i just felt so great all day. even though i was physically tired i felt great. i even found myself encouraging others :) totally unlikely right?! me. encouraging *grin*
we have our first assignment this afternoon. well actually its a practice assignment. its on hospitality. hospitality is really important we have discovered. and our assignment involves preparing a meal and having people over for dinner. our practice tonight is at the park and the food we are having smells soooo good! we are having a green salad, potato salad and a pasta salad thingy. it might not sound good but it looks and smells amazing!! you people reading should be sooo jealous lol.
oh. our Korean student arrived this week. her name is Saerom. shes pretty cool and its really fun talking to her. we are having fun learning korean words and phrases lol.
we also have two new guys coming. Sam and Ethan. one of them arrives tonight and the other arrives some time next week i assume. i dont know anything about them... i will update peoples about them when i meet them :)
ok i should probably go help in the kitchen a bit... i will write another blog some time later. when i have time. which i dont have much of lol
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Meet My Nemisis --- Beaus's Alarm Clock!
Sunday night i got to bed fairly late, trying to enjoy as much weekend as possible or whatever, and so i knew i was going to be really tired the next morning but hey, it was worth it. (no it wasnt)
i set my alarm on my watch for 5am, which as you know i have to be up by, and i went to bed dreading the wakeup call... i did also notice that someone seemed to have left the room during the night and not come back (Beau as it turns out) but anyway...
at 4.40am Beaus alarm clock goes off... it was set onto the radio but it was super duper loud! i tried to ignore it, hoping it would turn itself off, or at least that someone else would turn it off. it got to the point though that i had to get up and turn it off... so i stumbled (more like rolled) out of bed, staggered across the room and clicked the button on top of the alarm. i then went back to bed hoing for a bit more sleep before 5. then, at 4.42 it went off again! nevertheless i tried to ignore it again... which also didnt work, so i got out of bed, seriously annoyed, and pressed a second button on the clock. then went and literally collapsed into bed. and THEN at 4.45 it went off a third time! seriously angry i jumped up, ran over, felt around for the plug, and triumphantly flourished the pulled out clock and felt deep satisfaction in seeing the lights go off on it! but it turns out that the clock has nine lives because at 4.46 it started beeping!! really loudly!!! i couldnt believe it! i yelled out "WHY ARE YOU STILL ALIVE!" lol. im pretty sure josh laughed. he didnt come help me though i noticed. i then tossed the covers, stomped to the clock , yanked it in the air, pressed every button i could find, and then buried it under all of Beaus clothing lol. "at last!" i thought. im sure you already guessed that it went off again... at 4.47 or something. i gave up at this point. i was like "fine! im getting up!" and went over, turned on the light (blinding myself in the process) and uncovered my arch nemisis - the clock. i then found an on/off switch hidden on the back, which i flipped, and wasnt troubled again.
i had a shower then and came out into the common room. when i saw all the people with the heads bowed in a circle i loudly exclaimed "Beaus alarm clock went off SIX TIMES!" Millie then said softly "Mark. we are praying at the moment..." i didnt really register and said again "SIX TIMES!!!" lol. i then left the room, realising that i was interupting lol.
needless to say all my fellow students found my clock escapades highly amusing over breakfast.
i found out that Beau had left the room that night to sleep in the lecture room. he couldnt sleep and knew he would toss and turn. so out of consideration for me, who had told him im not used to having roommates tossing and turning in my room, he left to sleep elsewhere. he also admitted to setting the alarm early because he thought we were going for a run in the morning.... how wrong he was lol
and thats the account of my Nemisis. i hope i have your sympathy :)
i set my alarm on my watch for 5am, which as you know i have to be up by, and i went to bed dreading the wakeup call... i did also notice that someone seemed to have left the room during the night and not come back (Beau as it turns out) but anyway...
at 4.40am Beaus alarm clock goes off... it was set onto the radio but it was super duper loud! i tried to ignore it, hoping it would turn itself off, or at least that someone else would turn it off. it got to the point though that i had to get up and turn it off... so i stumbled (more like rolled) out of bed, staggered across the room and clicked the button on top of the alarm. i then went back to bed hoing for a bit more sleep before 5. then, at 4.42 it went off again! nevertheless i tried to ignore it again... which also didnt work, so i got out of bed, seriously annoyed, and pressed a second button on the clock. then went and literally collapsed into bed. and THEN at 4.45 it went off a third time! seriously angry i jumped up, ran over, felt around for the plug, and triumphantly flourished the pulled out clock and felt deep satisfaction in seeing the lights go off on it! but it turns out that the clock has nine lives because at 4.46 it started beeping!! really loudly!!! i couldnt believe it! i yelled out "WHY ARE YOU STILL ALIVE!" lol. im pretty sure josh laughed. he didnt come help me though i noticed. i then tossed the covers, stomped to the clock , yanked it in the air, pressed every button i could find, and then buried it under all of Beaus clothing lol. "at last!" i thought. im sure you already guessed that it went off again... at 4.47 or something. i gave up at this point. i was like "fine! im getting up!" and went over, turned on the light (blinding myself in the process) and uncovered my arch nemisis - the clock. i then found an on/off switch hidden on the back, which i flipped, and wasnt troubled again.
i had a shower then and came out into the common room. when i saw all the people with the heads bowed in a circle i loudly exclaimed "Beaus alarm clock went off SIX TIMES!" Millie then said softly "Mark. we are praying at the moment..." i didnt really register and said again "SIX TIMES!!!" lol. i then left the room, realising that i was interupting lol.
needless to say all my fellow students found my clock escapades highly amusing over breakfast.
i found out that Beau had left the room that night to sleep in the lecture room. he couldnt sleep and knew he would toss and turn. so out of consideration for me, who had told him im not used to having roommates tossing and turning in my room, he left to sleep elsewhere. he also admitted to setting the alarm early because he thought we were going for a run in the morning.... how wrong he was lol
and thats the account of my Nemisis. i hope i have your sympathy :)
Friday, January 21, 2011
Week One - Orientation part 2
ok. seeing as i have some more free time i thought i would add more to my blog. and seeing as i have no idea what i said in my last post so if i repeat myself im sorry. you will just have to live with it.
on one of the first mornings (monday maybe?) 4 of us guys all got up early to go for a morning run. and when i say early i mean like 5am type thing. i regreted it the next morning lol. i lay there in bed thinking of reasons for getting out of it. at one point i found myself thinking "i know! when chris comes in here to wake me i will lie! i will say that i barely slept and needed another hour of sleep" ... my conscience made me get up though. which is good i suppose...
anyways, the run was hideous. being the most unfit i had to stop and start walking before anyone else. Jon (the dean) was nice though and walked with me. pretty soon we caught up with Josh who had stopped too. Chris and Tim were the only ones who made it the whole way. good for them i suppose. stupid people.
during the week we have had heaps of introductory lectures. for example, yesterday we had a lecture on purity. we read verses about being pure and then the guys and girls advised eachother on how they can dress and act to not make the other sex stumble lol. and also so they can avoid attracting unwanted attention from kids at youth etc. we decided that the girls had to wear turtle necks and pants below the knee. they protested at first but they understood the need. also, us guys have to never take of our shirts, even to swim, wear sleeves and pants no higher than the knee so we dont make the girls stumble. its so anoying but alright i suppose... nah im just joking. we arent that crazy lol
btw. just so everyone else reading this know, when i say that we are doing stuff that sounds cultish i am actually joking. we arent some crazy cult lol. i thought i should make that clear so people reading this go "oh my goodness! what is Mark apart of!" lol.
oh i am part of the cornerstone touch footy team! and im amazing. (naturally) . we play in town on mondays. last week we were smashed 5 to 1 but it was still fun. my personal goal was for our team to get at least 1 so im satisfied :)
the sunrises are amazing here. and we get to see them every morning on the way to work. so cool. the other day we arrived early at the Galeas and we watched the sunrise.
we had like a 2 hour community meeeting the other night. its a time to encourage and rebuke and give information to everyone. if i hadnt been next to Les i think it would have been torture. the information part was long and boring but Les made it fun by making funny, lame puns throughout. he's a champion lol.
lots of people here to be fairly musical. and half at least have nice singing voices. im imagining a very musical year lol. im not complaining though. music is the best :)
us guys have been going down to the little under Jons place every second day. its pretty fun. talking while doing weights. comparing muscles. laughing at others struggling at chin ups (mostly me laughing at Chris). etc. im hoping that by the end of the yera i will have mad guns lol. probably wishful thinking but hey, its worth trying.
i am starving right now... and, while sitting on the couch typing im looking over at the people cooking in the kitchen... well so far all im seeing is food flying through the air while people try cutting it with a knife, or spear it as it flies through the air. looks productive....
ok im going to go eat something before i whither to nothing...
on one of the first mornings (monday maybe?) 4 of us guys all got up early to go for a morning run. and when i say early i mean like 5am type thing. i regreted it the next morning lol. i lay there in bed thinking of reasons for getting out of it. at one point i found myself thinking "i know! when chris comes in here to wake me i will lie! i will say that i barely slept and needed another hour of sleep" ... my conscience made me get up though. which is good i suppose...
anyways, the run was hideous. being the most unfit i had to stop and start walking before anyone else. Jon (the dean) was nice though and walked with me. pretty soon we caught up with Josh who had stopped too. Chris and Tim were the only ones who made it the whole way. good for them i suppose. stupid people.
during the week we have had heaps of introductory lectures. for example, yesterday we had a lecture on purity. we read verses about being pure and then the guys and girls advised eachother on how they can dress and act to not make the other sex stumble lol. and also so they can avoid attracting unwanted attention from kids at youth etc. we decided that the girls had to wear turtle necks and pants below the knee. they protested at first but they understood the need. also, us guys have to never take of our shirts, even to swim, wear sleeves and pants no higher than the knee so we dont make the girls stumble. its so anoying but alright i suppose... nah im just joking. we arent that crazy lol
btw. just so everyone else reading this know, when i say that we are doing stuff that sounds cultish i am actually joking. we arent some crazy cult lol. i thought i should make that clear so people reading this go "oh my goodness! what is Mark apart of!" lol.
oh i am part of the cornerstone touch footy team! and im amazing. (naturally) . we play in town on mondays. last week we were smashed 5 to 1 but it was still fun. my personal goal was for our team to get at least 1 so im satisfied :)
the sunrises are amazing here. and we get to see them every morning on the way to work. so cool. the other day we arrived early at the Galeas and we watched the sunrise.
we had like a 2 hour community meeeting the other night. its a time to encourage and rebuke and give information to everyone. if i hadnt been next to Les i think it would have been torture. the information part was long and boring but Les made it fun by making funny, lame puns throughout. he's a champion lol.
lots of people here to be fairly musical. and half at least have nice singing voices. im imagining a very musical year lol. im not complaining though. music is the best :)
us guys have been going down to the little under Jons place every second day. its pretty fun. talking while doing weights. comparing muscles. laughing at others struggling at chin ups (mostly me laughing at Chris). etc. im hoping that by the end of the yera i will have mad guns lol. probably wishful thinking but hey, its worth trying.
i am starving right now... and, while sitting on the couch typing im looking over at the people cooking in the kitchen... well so far all im seeing is food flying through the air while people try cutting it with a knife, or spear it as it flies through the air. looks productive....
ok im going to go eat something before i whither to nothing...
Week One - Orientation
Before coming to cornerstone i agreed to writing a blog each week... im foreseeing this being a pain but i can see the usefulness. i suppose its something i can fill my time with on my days off... although there isnt alot of those... anyways, this is how my week started...
The parentals drove me here Saturday afternoon (15th? maybe?). i must say that i was pleasantly surprised with the area. the scenery is amazing and the space is larger than i imagined. i remember thinking "great! if i end up hating everyone i can just walk off into the wilderness and they would never be able to find me!" ... or something like that anyways.
I was greeted by Chris and Georgie, some familiar faces to help ease the strangeness of the place and everyone else :) i was then bombarded with people, names and faces, knowing that i could never ever remember them all within the next few hours. i decided when approached by someone i had already met to just launch straight into conversation, skipping over the need to greet with the traditional " Frankenstein! Hows it going mate!" and avoid the awkward "... ... ... im really sorry but i just cant remember your name!" and then when they tell it to you, you automatically respond with"oh hi. my names Mark. nice to meet you." and get the awkward "i know..." implying that they didnt forget my name so why arent they good enough to be remembered.... so yeah i tried to avoid that entire scenario.
didnt work though.
we then went for a swim, had a ritualistic slug ceremony, and then came back to meet the nezt lot of arriving first years.
Josh, my new roommate, i met in the dining room . He was wearing a singlet top, khaki pants and army boots. He had a decent amount of muscle on him i suppose and a short haircut. Then, when we showed him the room, he flicks out this knife, telling Chris and i how he wants to join the army and kill people... well he didnt say it like that but i remember thinking "oh my goodness. this guy is going to practice his knife skills and kill me i just know it. i better look up how to treat knife wounds..." lol ok so it wasnt like that but the tough fella persona seemed to come across quite a bit. hes a nice fella though. really polite and friendly. im considering nicknaming him joshy squashy just to see the reaction...
man writing this blog is taking forever. i will have to use less detail...
over the next two days most of the first years turned up. there is...
The Girls
This week we eased into work. I have now done two days of official work though. Watermellon picking. and i got the most painful rash both times. feels similar to a painful sunburn. not the greatest feeling ever. my skin is meant to toughen in a week or so though. or so i hope.
The lectures are amazing! i feel so sorry for all you people not here. you seriously have no idea what you are missing out on. there is so much i didnt know or hadnt thought about and am loving learning all this stuff. seriously. its the best.
i wish i could write more coz there is so much more to write but ive already been typing away for 45minutes and Tim has no one to talk to lol. so i will stop and go talk to him so he doesnt die of boredom lol. i will write later i suppose.
and i dont know how to end a blog...
umm... the end?
The parentals drove me here Saturday afternoon (15th? maybe?). i must say that i was pleasantly surprised with the area. the scenery is amazing and the space is larger than i imagined. i remember thinking "great! if i end up hating everyone i can just walk off into the wilderness and they would never be able to find me!" ... or something like that anyways.
I was greeted by Chris and Georgie, some familiar faces to help ease the strangeness of the place and everyone else :) i was then bombarded with people, names and faces, knowing that i could never ever remember them all within the next few hours. i decided when approached by someone i had already met to just launch straight into conversation, skipping over the need to greet with the traditional " Frankenstein! Hows it going mate!" and avoid the awkward "... ... ... im really sorry but i just cant remember your name!" and then when they tell it to you, you automatically respond with"oh hi. my names Mark. nice to meet you." and get the awkward "i know..." implying that they didnt forget my name so why arent they good enough to be remembered.... so yeah i tried to avoid that entire scenario.
didnt work though.
we then went for a swim, had a ritualistic slug ceremony, and then came back to meet the nezt lot of arriving first years.
Josh, my new roommate, i met in the dining room . He was wearing a singlet top, khaki pants and army boots. He had a decent amount of muscle on him i suppose and a short haircut. Then, when we showed him the room, he flicks out this knife, telling Chris and i how he wants to join the army and kill people... well he didnt say it like that but i remember thinking "oh my goodness. this guy is going to practice his knife skills and kill me i just know it. i better look up how to treat knife wounds..." lol ok so it wasnt like that but the tough fella persona seemed to come across quite a bit. hes a nice fella though. really polite and friendly. im considering nicknaming him joshy squashy just to see the reaction...
man writing this blog is taking forever. i will have to use less detail...
over the next two days most of the first years turned up. there is...
The Girls
- Amy who was a first year last year as well. she has red hair and is great at helping out all the new guys work their way around the community and how stuff works...
- Carmel from Swan Hill. short, talkative and as funny as ever. if you let her, she will probably talk non stop all day. and she has the coolest laugh coz when she does, her whole face wrinkles up in amusement.
- Georgie who i had already gotten to know well over the past two years. she would have to have one of the coolest senses of humour ever. she tricked me into thinking a spider was on my neck on outward bound and laughed hysterically when i jumped in fright. so funny.
- Jess W who is amazing. she hurt her ankle right in the first few days but didnt complain and did all the work anyway. legend.
- Jess C came late due to flooding in toowoomba. shes almost always encouraging people and she gets right into lecture discussions.
- Millie who is amazing. she has the nicest personality and always gives 110%. shes the best to have around when working hard and when haivng fun relaxing. totally awesome
- Alyssa (pronounced Aleesah) is the oldest first year being 27(?) she teaches early childhood. im really glad shes here and i think that we can learn alot working alongside her. her extra experience and wisdom shows
- Joshy Squasy my rommy. already told you about him
- Tim who is a league player. lol i love the fact that he is so much like Tim from Thailand. hes all buff and totally into the work and stuff. Tims awesome lol.
- Paul the wine guy (i added the wine guy part for the benefit of those FRIENDS fans lol like you Jenna) hes also older being 25 but that doesnt stop him joining in with all us young fellas (yes im still young. 19 is def young) hes got a mad beard going down and he is great value for conversation and stuff. he also has a great sense of humour. im so glad eveyone here seems to have good senses of humour. i think i would have died otherwise lol
- Chris... we dont talk about Chris. lol nah. Chris is great. talented and humourous as ever. no sense of personal space. always seems to catch you at your most embarrassing moments. its gonna be fun having him around all year.
- Jordan, who i have called jason, jackson, james, etc. because for some reason Jordan is just too hard to remember lol. its terrible i know. hes a great guy though. he came late but managed to become part of the group quicker than anyone else i think. he just fit straight in lol. great guy
This week we eased into work. I have now done two days of official work though. Watermellon picking. and i got the most painful rash both times. feels similar to a painful sunburn. not the greatest feeling ever. my skin is meant to toughen in a week or so though. or so i hope.
The lectures are amazing! i feel so sorry for all you people not here. you seriously have no idea what you are missing out on. there is so much i didnt know or hadnt thought about and am loving learning all this stuff. seriously. its the best.
i wish i could write more coz there is so much more to write but ive already been typing away for 45minutes and Tim has no one to talk to lol. so i will stop and go talk to him so he doesnt die of boredom lol. i will write later i suppose.
and i dont know how to end a blog...
umm... the end?
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