Its March

Blog entry Mar 3

It’s been almost 2 weeks since my last post, so lots to update you on.

In the last two weeks i have presented a bible study, done an oral presentation, gone surfing(which requires swimming), talent night, and a mens conference among other things.

My bible study presentation was great, it was about 45 minutes long and i got an A- on it.

We went to a mens conference on the 23rd in katoomba, which is in the blue mountains. It was an early morning as we left at 6am to get there by 9am. The conference was alright, not the greatest. The first speaker was decent, but it was hard to focus because i was tired(5 hours of sleep will do that...). the worship was ok, it seemed not very up to tempo and most of the songs i hadn’t sung or heard before, and probably won’t again. Haha. The second speaker was the keynote speaker...and he was not good. He spoke on micah(at a mens conference?) and didn’t give any illustrations or application of what he said, also he didnt even mention Jesus. So you get the idea(i hope). After the conference we saw the three sisters thing in the blue mountains, that was cool. We stopped at macdonalds after. Its funny, with the food we get it seems like we all enjoy going to macdonalds even more. The sizes here are funny though, the large drinks are about as big as our mediums, and they have slurpees!(coke and raspberry).

During the week i needed to get ready for my oral presentation. I decided to do it on Calgary(it was recommended that i do it on something i know).

On Monday i got to go play soccer, which was lots of fun, even though i got hit in the face haha.

On Tuesday we had quiet day. Quiet day was good and relaxing, we weren’t allowed to talk from wake up til 7:30 pm when we did communion. It was time to spend with God, in quiet. I read a bit in my bible and prayed and listened to worship music for a bit. It was a good day.

Wednesday we had work day as usual. I put more songs into powerpoint and helped set up the talent show. We had the talent show Wednesday night, there was 24 acts, i was in two of them and ran the music for all of them. It was a fun night, the talent show went about 3 hours.

Thursday i had funhouse, then a meeting for snac and got work done on my oral. I was so happy to have my oral done but it was only about 6 minutes and i needed 9.

On Friday i did my oral...i stretched it out to over 9 minutes and it went really well. Friday afternoon we met for snac and then went to a “john deere” show. Haha it was ridiculous. There were like 5 tractors and 10 lawnmowers, they had about 5 people there, but at least there were free hot dogs and soda. We went to bowral after for a bit. Friday night 8 of us saw Sweeney Todd, it was gory but really good and well done.

Saturday we got up and left at 8:30 to learn to surf at shell harbour beach with “Christian surfers.” It was great, i actually surfed! Got up on my feet on one wave, but they weren’t big waves or very many. The water was so warm and it was sunny! Unfortunately the sun burnt me pretty good. It was a fun day, we hung out on the beach in the afternoon and some of us played football. We stopped at macdonalds where Jonny bought us all soft serve ice cream cones. Later our snac team got together and practiced for Sunday night.

On Sunday we went to church and after a few of us guys hung out at woodseys and had tea and cake. After lunch i worked on my video for snac and we ran through our skit again. I also wrote the testimony to share. Snac came quick and it was great. It was funny but it had a great flow and we got our message of focusing on god and getting rid of distractions through. We got an A on it.

Last week our topic for classes was world religions. It was Really interesting. We learned about Hinduism, islam, Buddhism, Mormonism and Jehovahs witnesses. This week we are learning about Jesus as the healer and also about 1 Tim. This week i don’t have any assignments, which is awesome. Time to relax. This Friday travel weekend starts and a whole lot of us are going to Sydney, its going to be fun.

Today i went into bowral, and spent a ton of money. $100 on clothes and $50 on groceries...oi. might be getting a cell here or something though.

On another note, I can say ive been swimming with friends now from the beach on Saturday but i haven’t been taking 100 pics a day...not even close. At this rate i won’t be hitting 5000 pics while here, maybe 3000. And yes i missed brekkie...i won’t be doing that again haha.

I think that’s it for today. Luckily enough the internet is working right now.
Thanks for reading.
From Down Under,
Adam