Centipedes

There are honestly centipedes, everywhere! Dead, or alive there are heaps ;). The meeting with Pastor Mark went really well! He drove us to his house where pretty much his whole family was home and we all talked about church. theology and why we came to Capernwray. We drank cappacinos and ate TimTams, as well as caramel sponge cake. He said that we are welcome to come over anytime since his house is about 2 min into Moss Vale. I told him about all the stuff we are required to pay for at the school and he said we were welcome to use his internet as well!

Last Night a bunch of the girls and guys who didn't have youthgroup worked out to an aerobics and abs video, it was actually alot of fun mostly because one of the guys overly exaggerated the aerobics. I am quite sore today.

After that we played animal snap for five minutes before watching law abiding citizen, It was a pretty decent movie! Not everyone ended up watching like we'd planned because they went to Street Meat which is an outreach thing where they cook sausages outside and hand them out to whoever is at the pubs at night.

I should probably get up and go to breakfast.... I have to get to work on my biblestudy and then make a quick trip into town before coming back and working more on my biblestudy! I really should finish either today before going to see The Vow, or sunday morning before afternoon church....

It's Friday, Friday...

YES, even here the Rebecca Black song is being sung :P. So Valentines is coming up and I can't write what we are doing just in case anyone that is at the school reads this.(you'll find on on Valentines though)  I can tell you this , there is lots of planning to do! This weekend all the girls are going to go see The Vow!! SO excited for that!

I have a meeting with the pastor of my church today at 2pm, so hopefully that goes well and I find out what my job will be at the church! Rachel and I are the only ones with afternoon church so we are also the only two at the school sunday morning. Maybe this week I'll accomplish something with that time!

Its the second last day of my bathroom priviledge and then I will get a different job, Olivia hopes that I don't get put on morning set and serve because she wants to sleep in ;).

More Later,

Bible study

So I also have to write a biblestudy outline for this week and started today, hoping to be done on friday :). We listened to one of the second semester students biblestudy and she did a really great job.

The IT guy came today so now the internet works in the girls dorms, the boys still have to wait!

So my room is directly in front of "The Four Seasons" (fancy name for the guys dorms). For the past two nights, they have been really noisy which makes it hard to fall asleep. I always leave the window open so that the room is cool and apparently their windows are open too, sometimes even the curtains! hah. I hope they can't hear or see into our room as well as Olivia and I can for theirs!

I'm pretty sure that God has given me the go ahead for the missions trip to Hong Kong, I'm just a little worried about who the other people are that want to go... I know it shouldn't matter....so pray for me in that regard!

Also, today I hurried to eat lunch so that I could call and talk to my grandma. After I left the table one of the guys asked my friend if grandma was code for "boyfriend" and one of the other guys replied with, "I'll check facebook". Don't worry friends and family, I am not without teasing! I also hear "Its all about Brianna" at least five times a day, lots of fun. Can't lie though, I don't mind the attention.

So... I think thats about it other than the fact that Olivia and I got commended for having the cleanest, most organized room ;)

Workday

So, first full workday and it went pretty well! I prayed the night before and asked God for a fairly nice day since I was scheduled to work outside, he pulled through of course :). It started out really nice and the sun was out, Rachel and I were on van cleaning duty which I found amusing. So far the jobs I've had are cleaning bathrooms (which I don't do very often at home) and cleaning vehicles inside and out( also something I don't do often)! Interesting... haha anyways I was almost done cleaning the van when Neil (principal) came and drove it into town, he said he would bring it back so I could finish but that never happened... After van cleaning, we were giving the task of cleaning all the outside lights and were given a stepladder, sponge and broom! Lots of cobwebs in those lights and I saw another interesting spider. No need to worry, no screaming here....yet! After that we were instructed to clean the bread van which is a van with no seats that they use to carry the leftover bakery bread. The outside was easy enough to clean with the sponge and water hose (I may have "accidentely" got some people wet") but once we got inside we saw that moss was growing inside the van. Please pray for a new bread van, or even an old one with no moss! All of a sudden while we are cleaning Rachel screams and starts running to the front of the van, so I do too. I didn't realize at the time but the van had started rolling forward toward the tool shed and Rachel was runing to the front of the bus to stop it. Emma also saw what was happening and tried to jump in the van from the outside but forgot which side the brake was on! Well, due to our inability to stop the van, it hit the tool shed, narrowly missing the water pipe and bringing us to a halt. Quite the little adventure, and by this time God decided that we had had enough nice weather and since I was getting people wet, he decided he needed to wash his van and "accidentely" get me ;)!

The Huntsman

So a few things to say. First of all I should actually be working and not blogging but I can do that later haha. I'm definitely regretting saying "It's all about Brianna" in front of the camera because pretty much everytime I say something and there is a guy within hearing distance they say "cuz Its all about Brianna". Also the guys are pretty obsessed with Taylor swift and are watching her on youtube as I write this, they are also trying to get tickets to her show since she's apparently in australia. Some of them have already been to one of her concerts.... Oh and today after lectures there was a shadow in the light and it looked like a spider so the guys were called over and hit the light to see it move. After doing this they decided to get the biggest spider i've ever seen out of the light. Almost all the girls in the room were screaming.... so Randy stands up on the table and lifts the panel besides the light to flick the spider out. Before it gets out completely he lets go of the panel and one spider leg is caught inside. This spider was HUGE, I've only seen one that big on TV! Well the guys knock it down with a frisbee and the leg stays in the ceiling while the spider falls to the ground (more screams!) they threw the spider out the door after some pictures, then checked out the spider chart... A Huntsman

Sunday!

So I went to my new church yesterday which is held at a Christian School and there are about 25 people in the congregation. The pastor is really nice and has no theological training so he told me and Rachel that we already knew more then him after only a week at Capernwray. Most of the people there are younger married couples with kids. The only person close to my age other than Rachel is the music leader, he leads music all by himself and has an amazing voice! I was really impressed! So far we don't have anything specific to our ministry other than just helping them get established, which is cool. We had to leave right after the service to get back for SN @ C, since my team was adamant that they wouldn't get an A without me haha. It went really well, about 15-20 people showed and with the capernwray students it seemed like alot! Adam started out as MC and did a really good job getting people comfortable, then we introduced ourselves and I read the prodical son while my team acted it out. It was really funny and I had a hard time trying not to laugh. The game was next and it was a race to put together a puzzle and surprisingly the 10 p puzzle took them quite a while! After that I explained how our life is like a puzzle and that without one piece we cannot be complete and related that to the story., We continued with a video and it really hit the message home, that and our conclusion as well as some other stuff, we took just enough time and got an A-! First team to present and we did that well! Our team worked so well together and all I can say is that it was definitely God!