Week 15

So, what to blog about this week? Life at the Crossing has gotten back into the routines we became so familiar with last semester. Classes have been awesome. We had Warren Duncan teaching on public speaking for the first half of the week and Werner was teaching on 2 Corinthians. We also got to have a DVD lecture on 1 and 2 Samuel by Charles Price.

For the most part, this week has been spent getting ahead on Bible studies and reading.

Both Thursday and Friday night were rather insane for me because I stayed up until 1am! On Thursday, it was simply because I couldn’t’ fall asleep so I stayed up and chatted and laughed and then sat up writing poetry. On Friday, it was because I stayed up to watch a movie with everyone else. And was it ever worth it!!! It’s called ‘The Prestige’ and it’s about these two magicians competing for the best trick or performance. Most of the story had me quite confused, but the end is insane!!! I really hope to watch it again soon to try and understand it a bit more. As Colin described it, you come out of this movie thinking “What just happened?” and so we spent an hour or so after the movie discussing it and going “Wooooooooooo!! Way cool!!!!!!!!!!”

Saturday was a ‘lazy day’ where we all kind of sat around and worked on getting some assigned reading done or got started working on our next Bible studies. Cara, Kelsey, and Bryan headed off to the North Island at 3am on Saturday to attend Parachute (a huge music festival) and Sheryl and Michael headed down to Christchurch for Sheryl’s sister’s engagement party so the house has been rather quiet this weekend.

Saturday night, after a hilarious game of volleyball (I most definitely need to practice...) a bunch of us had a campfire down by the pond. We had s’mores with real graham crackers and real marshmallows which I had brought from Canada. We were all pretty excited about that! Then Jordan got a can of gasoline and the guys decided to have some fun. They made ‘marshmallow bombs’ by dipping the marshmallows in the gasoline and they threw small amounts of gasoline on the fire. The first time he did it, Joel fell off his stump because the brightness and heat surprised him so much. After a suggestion from Robert, we got an empty spray bottle from the cleaning cupboard and filled it with gasoline (yes, we had Hanna’s permission and supervision). We would then spray the fire to create a fireball. Then we could spray the fireball repeatedly and essentially keep spraying it or right above it so that we could we bring it upwards. It was so cool!! But when you were the one spraying, it got pretty high and we had some close calls (a stump and some grass on fire). When it started raining, we all came in a J.B., Cam, Amber, Robert and I had a ‘spontaneous’ worship service. It was really refreshing (although it meant that I had another late night)

Sunday after church, Mr and Mrs Davey invited Adam and I up to their house out in Temuka for lunch. They had two other guests there who had been staying there for the weekend so we chatted, played some games and ate a delicious meal with tons of fruit and vegetables. After the meal, they toured us around Temuka then we drove out to Pleasant Point where they bought us Den Heath’s Custard squares (which originated in Temuka but have grown so much that they are now produced in Tiamru and shipped all over New Zealand). They gave us tons of history and info about the region (I will write it up in a ‘did you know’ post at some point in the (hopefully) near future).

On Sunday evening, the girls (minus Kelsey, Cara, and Sheryl who were missing) went to Patti’s for some ‘girl talk. This time, Patti talked about women’s roles in society, what they are now and what God intended them to be. We are basing the study on Titus 2 (especially verse4 and 5). It has been really interesting and has brought up several issues that I never would have though needed to be brought up before. I must say that I may have been getting women’s roles in the church all wrong although I think I still need to do some research of my own before I come to a definite conclusion. I really enjoy our Sunday evening meetings although I always stress a little before going because I know that Patti will challenge me and that God will convict me of something.