A Sunny Day

Well this morning was definitely not the best, first bad morning I've had since being here. Olivia and I were 2 minutes late for set and serve breakfast this morning, so we had to do lunch privileges today as well. Then we went to serve breakfast and the porridge had been left on the stove by a staff member so it was all stuck to the bottom and still had to be dished out. The milk had also gone sour for the cereal. On top of that, the clock in the kitchen was off, so it looked like we were later for breakfast than we really were. The day got better, thankfully. Lectures were great. Our speaker is from Queensland and he is speaking on Abiding in God. He taught in the morning and after tea, Woodsy talked on The Gospel Driven Life.

Neil couldn't drive the van into town today because he had to pick up another board member from the airport. Therefore Woodsy had to. He moved our Hong Kong meeting into town and we sat at a cafe and went over fundraising and information. It went really good and we have two things that will be happening in the next few weeks. The first is Breakfast in Bed, the students will give 10, 20, or 50$ (depending on what they want to eat) and we will make them food and bring it to their room. The meal choices are: a ham and cheese croissant, fruit and yogurt, and finally a kangaroo steak with eggs. We're hoping that the other students will really support this and we will be announcing it on Friday, then taking money and orders on Monday to serve them the following Friday.  It's going to be a big job but I'm looking forward to it! The other idea is a Head Shave for the guys, to take place during SN @C. I like the idea of it although I don't really want to go to Hong Kong with a bunch of baldies.... :/. The good part is that my team members might not have to shave their heads. We're going to try and get a bunch of the other Capers guys to participate as well. We will have a basket and people at SN @ C will pay 10$ each time they put someone's' name in.  Then for every 100$ that is contributed, a name will be drawn from the basket, and their head will be shaved. We're probably going to invite other people that we know from church as well. The other thing we talked about at our meeting was parenting essentially. Woodsy discussed how the way a child is raised, effects their choices in life. So, the guys at New Man House need to learn everything that we would normally learn at 2, like what is right and wrong and how to use their judgement. It's going to be interesting, that's for sure!

When we got back from town, Olivia and I decided to go sunbathing on the bike path behind the Briars. The grass path from the briars to the bike path was super wet because of all the rain we've been getting. So we were walking through mud and puddles! We didn't stay out too long because the sun kept hiding behind the clouds, we saw a turtle and some bunny rabbits on our walk, as well as lots of bugs (a fuzzy caterpillar.)

Dinner was carrot soup and Swedish bread, it was....interesting. Olivia didn't eat anything, which reminded me of one of my sisters... you can probably guess who!