week

I went to the midwinter Christmas dinner on Friday. There wasn't so much of me on the camera this year but I definitely got a video in of me stuffing my face with icecream. Lots of good food, humour, helium balloons, company, etc. I haven't completely filled myself up for a while but by 10pm I was completely stuffed. A few of us went to Amy's new flat in Merivale and watched Hitch - I was taking mental notes of how to dance at my formal (pelvic thrust, shopping for pizza, making the pizza, the lawnmower, the lighthouse, and other great dance moves). At about 1:30 Steve J dropped the other people in his car home and he, Mark and I went to church and had a snow fight with the snow they had for the entrance to the Christmas Dinner. We ofcourse played around in it until Steve got hurt. Mark seemed to be the only one not hurting by the end of it but I think it was fair to say that Stephen got the most injured. So Steve drove home and we went to bed so we could get up early the next morning for Youthtrain. I was up early enough to drive around to Steve's place to take him to youthtrain (he asked for a ride the night before) but after spending 15mins knocking on his door, ringing his mobile phone (which was, unbeknown to me, in his car) and ringing his doorbell I eventually gave up and headed there by myself. He drove himself there a few minutes later. I think a lot of us were very tired that morning, from either going to Amy's or studying for tests.

After youthtrain Mark and I went to Steve's house and ate another massive meal, so to burn it off we headed into the port hills and climbed some rocks. Then we got home just before 6pm to have dinner with Rach's boyfriend's Father and two of his sisters.

The service this morning was very different to usual. We went over the Elizabeth/Mary meeting verses in Luke and then we talked about what stuck out to us in what we listened to or what question we would ask, after hearing the verses, to a theologian. After discussing our answers with a "distant relation" or two we listened to people stand up around the church and share what their "distant relation" discussed with them. As Steve Taylor pointed out, this was not just one sermon, not just the Holy Spirit talking to one person, but rather the Holy Spirit among us as a congregation and several, many, people preaching as they taught the congregation what they had learned from their discussion with their "distant relation".

I asked Bob Jaegar last Sunday if he would consider being my Mentor. I have a lot of respect for him and because of various things I believe he is the person that God wants to mentor me. I'm really happy that today Bob confirmed he would be my mentor and I am meeting with him tomorrow evening. My Growth Coaching with Jason is almost over now and my last task in it was to find a mentor.

My week this week will be quite busy, tomorrow i'll have my mentor meeting, then Tuesday I'll have to get started on my homework, Wednesday is reserved for youthgroup, Thursday set aside for YouthAlpha, and Friday has been claimed by my growthcoaching meeting which will later be followed by a party with my friends from school (many people will not be drinking as several christians will be attending). Saturday will be engulfed by Iceskating with the Youthgroup's Saturday Events.

So that's my week all lined up for inspection. On wednesday my head of school (dean) should be giving out the forms to fill out if we need to invite people from other schools to the formal (I've been nagging him about it)

Time for me to go to work now.