Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Monday, July 13, 2009
Travellers Yet Again
So travelling worked out pretty nicely because Deborah (outreach team mate) and I are travelling together for the first leg and a half of the trip. From Perth to Singapore (where I am now) we've been together and then we split when I leave at 9:45 tonight. It's a blessing to be able to talk to someone becuase pretty soon i'll be alone for a total of 28 + hours (flights and layovers) .. it's gunna be interesting to say the least.
It's been hard to just get to this airport. I was dying last night not knowing for sure if I was meant to come home and then struggling to find the people I needed to say goodbye too.. it was rough. Plus on the way to the airport to make matters worse, we passed by an accident where I guess a person on a motorcycle/moped had been hit and they were doing chest compressions on him on the left lane and we drove right by it.. all they had was a sheet covering it but oncoming traffic can totally see the whole thing it was aweful. I was smacked with a brick of shock as soon as I saw this lady pumping on this persons chest.
We did end up making it here and I watched a movie and a half .. one of which was 17 Again.. I found it rather comical myself haha and then I had TV issues so that kinda cut in my time but whatever. Anyways. I'm gunna deak and let Deb-Deb facebook it.
PEACE
It's been hard to just get to this airport. I was dying last night not knowing for sure if I was meant to come home and then struggling to find the people I needed to say goodbye too.. it was rough. Plus on the way to the airport to make matters worse, we passed by an accident where I guess a person on a motorcycle/moped had been hit and they were doing chest compressions on him on the left lane and we drove right by it.. all they had was a sheet covering it but oncoming traffic can totally see the whole thing it was aweful. I was smacked with a brick of shock as soon as I saw this lady pumping on this persons chest.
We did end up making it here and I watched a movie and a half .. one of which was 17 Again.. I found it rather comical myself haha and then I had TV issues so that kinda cut in my time but whatever. Anyways. I'm gunna deak and let Deb-Deb facebook it.
PEACE
Thursday, July 2, 2009
It Wouldn't be YWAM If...
... Something unexpected didn't happen.
This week, while staffing with Nex Wave, Landon (nex wave staff) and I have been working together to organize all the food and all that jazz for winter camp for 100 + people. We've gone grocery shopping like 4 times now. I'm going to document what our days have looked like.
Tuesday was my first day in the office and we had to go pick up stuff for camp at this place called Food Bank which is a cheap cheap bulk wholesale place thing and we ended up getting lost and it took us forever to actually get there because we went to the wrong place originally. Then Wednesday we went shopping with 2 students doing work experience week and it was fairly simple .. kind of a pain to walk back and forth to the city and parking garage but whatever simple enough afternoon was pretty chill too. Then Thursday happens... today. Landon tells me last night at dinner that were planning on leaving at 8:30 AM right after morning chores to leave to get at the good stuff at the cheap Food Bank place. So we leave probs around 9 because we're never truely on time in YWAM really.. and then as we get half way there the hiace starts twitching and then dies at the worst place possible in the right lane (which is bad cuz we drive on the left side here) so we slowly drive across the lanes as the haice slows down meanwhile someone honks violently at us.. clearly he was short on patients today. So the Hiace breaks down over and over and over as we try to get to a decent stopping point and Landon's on the phone trying to figure out what to do .. whats wrong while talking to Mark, vehicle maitenance man. Im useless.. all I did was find out the street name and hold the seats up so Landon could look at the engine stuff. Eventually Joe and Q came and picked us up in the Nex Wave Hiace (which was what saved us when the bus broke down on outreach.. it was like a deja vu I swear) and we all went shopping. After lunch Landon and I left around 2 - 2:30 to get more groveries for meals.. we got there and were there litterally till 6 by the time we checked out with 1700 + dollars worth of food - omg right? - so then I take all the food outside and expect Landon to be waiting with the actual food van. I look over and he's walking across the parking lot with his arms out and drops them to his side and basically says, "why us!" with his arms. He left the lights on all afternoon and the battery died. So I sat for like 15 minutes waiting with the food mostly because they couldnt find the battery cuz these vans are all weird. Anyways.. moral of the story.. Landon and I will always come across some type of issue while trying to make this camp happen. I wonder what will go wrong tomorrow when we try to go grocery shopping for the 5th time.. yay life. PEACE & LOVE
This week, while staffing with Nex Wave, Landon (nex wave staff) and I have been working together to organize all the food and all that jazz for winter camp for 100 + people. We've gone grocery shopping like 4 times now. I'm going to document what our days have looked like.
Tuesday was my first day in the office and we had to go pick up stuff for camp at this place called Food Bank which is a cheap cheap bulk wholesale place thing and we ended up getting lost and it took us forever to actually get there because we went to the wrong place originally. Then Wednesday we went shopping with 2 students doing work experience week and it was fairly simple .. kind of a pain to walk back and forth to the city and parking garage but whatever simple enough afternoon was pretty chill too. Then Thursday happens... today. Landon tells me last night at dinner that were planning on leaving at 8:30 AM right after morning chores to leave to get at the good stuff at the cheap Food Bank place. So we leave probs around 9 because we're never truely on time in YWAM really.. and then as we get half way there the hiace starts twitching and then dies at the worst place possible in the right lane (which is bad cuz we drive on the left side here) so we slowly drive across the lanes as the haice slows down meanwhile someone honks violently at us.. clearly he was short on patients today. So the Hiace breaks down over and over and over as we try to get to a decent stopping point and Landon's on the phone trying to figure out what to do .. whats wrong while talking to Mark, vehicle maitenance man. Im useless.. all I did was find out the street name and hold the seats up so Landon could look at the engine stuff. Eventually Joe and Q came and picked us up in the Nex Wave Hiace (which was what saved us when the bus broke down on outreach.. it was like a deja vu I swear) and we all went shopping. After lunch Landon and I left around 2 - 2:30 to get more groveries for meals.. we got there and were there litterally till 6 by the time we checked out with 1700 + dollars worth of food - omg right? - so then I take all the food outside and expect Landon to be waiting with the actual food van. I look over and he's walking across the parking lot with his arms out and drops them to his side and basically says, "why us!" with his arms. He left the lights on all afternoon and the battery died. So I sat for like 15 minutes waiting with the food mostly because they couldnt find the battery cuz these vans are all weird. Anyways.. moral of the story.. Landon and I will always come across some type of issue while trying to make this camp happen. I wonder what will go wrong tomorrow when we try to go grocery shopping for the 5th time.. yay life. PEACE & LOVE
ps the cool part of sitting and waiting for the van to get boosted was that I think I saw a bandicoot! Well i know I saw something I just dont know if it was a bandicoot but it was sweet as man..
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