9/12/09

Well hello everybody. This week was great. First we had some teaching from David Cowie, the founder of Marine Reach, and then for the last half of the week we had our school leader, Cheyne (pronounced Shane) Hosking. He spoke on the Word of the Lord, and it was really good, like really good. He just went at it with asking us questions and having us fill out questionnaires to see what we need to work on, like I realized that I read the Bible for accomplishment rather than to get to know God, which is the only reason you should really be reading it. What’s the point otherwise? Ok, well I guess if you were wanting to check some theology or whatever, but honestly, let’s get to know him. But yea, it was a really amazing week of teaching from Cheyne.
The best part of this week was really the weekend, it all started on Friday night when we had a BBQ/Dance party with a 40s/30s theme. The other married couple in our DTS, Michael and Leah from Canada, taught us all how to jive, cha-cha, and waltz. It was awesome. We were dancing all night long, and everyone got into it, even the boys who said they wouldn’t, it was great. So now we are a dancing school and we are planning on having more dance parties. So yea, that was really fun because we got to dress up and just hang out and relax outside of the ship. But then on Saturday we got to go to a rugby game between the All Blacks and the Springboks (New Zealand vs. South Africa). New Zealand lost, but it was such a close game. It seriously came down to the last couple of seconds and we were almost there. It was awesome. We all put on face paint and yea, it was just fun. But Rugby is huge here, and this game was a really big deal, a lot of South Africans moved here and so yea, it wasn’t like everyone was rooting for NZ, it was fairly even on both sides, and apparently ZA fans are crazy, so yea. People were throwing their beer bottles onto the field during half time, it was pretty funny, nothing serious. Oh and the coolest part is at the beginning of the game when the All Blacks do this thing called a Haka. It’s like a chant type thing, but it is a Maori tradition and they like are yelling this thing at the top of their lungs and they’re like sumo wrestlers but not. I don’t know, it’s just awesome and uber intimidating. You should all go look up a video of it.
Heidi