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Thursday, October 15, 2009

A Day at The Crossing

Here is a description of a typical week for me:
I like to wake up at about five to seven so that I am out of the room by 7:15. I then go outside for 45 minutes of quiet time. Breakfast is from 8:00 to 8:20. We get porridge and toast every morning except on weekends and Wednesdays. Amber makes the best porridge!!! At the moment, I am on clean up duty after breakfast, but this will change next week when we get a new set of duties.
Classes run from 8:45 to 9:35 then from 9:40 to 10:30 with a break in between. 10:30 to 11:20 is morning tea where we have devotions, book studies, or prayer time all together. The last morning class goes from 11:30 to 12:20 and is a DVD lecture (all the other lectures are either skype classes, or done by the main lecturer). Lunch is at 12:30.
There are no classes in the afternoon. Instead, we have time to prep for our ministry, we are out doing our ministry, or there is free time. Wednesday afternoons are work afternoons where we all have tasks to do in the house, on the grounds, or at the Epp’s house (Dale Epp is the principle).
Tea (what we would call supper) is at 5:30. We have evening classes from 7:00 to 7:50 and from 8:00 to 8:50 on Monday and Thursday from the main lecturer. On Tuesday evenings, we either have family night which is tons of fun) or classes. On Wednesday evenings, we rent the gym at the local high school gym and we go play soccer.We get Saturdays off, but there tends to be an optional organised activity we can take part in (like going to Timaru, the beach or on a hike). Sunday mornings, we go to church in Geraldine. The afternoons are free. In the evening of every second Sunday, we have Sunday Fellowship, where someone (usually the main lecturer for the next week) comes and presents a message that introduces the material for the next week and we sing some praise songs. After that we have supper (which here essentially means an evening snack). The hour between tea and Sunday night fellowship is spent in silence so that we can spend some time with God.

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