Brock week 7

On Saturday I played some leisurely sport with the Campus for Christ people for a couple of hours out on the oval. That night, I helped Josh out doing the stats for the brock basketball game again, which they won easily. It’s great having a front row seat. After that I went with him and two of his friends to the Pen Centre and got free tickets (because one of his friends works there and it was his birthday) to see Jackass 3D. It was very entertaining. We even bumped into Mum and her friends at the movie.

After that, we went back to Josh’ house where we stayed the night. His parents were out of the country. We had some good table tennis games, basketball and football outside on the street, and jammed on the guitar. We went to bed around 130, but Josh and I were up to nearly 3am sharing a great chat.

Woke up early at 830 (Yeah that’s early!) to go to church at Central again. It was really good. After church, about 10 of us from our floor went for a trip into value village to get some Halloween costumes and groceries. I got some fully sick bright blue track pants which are really warm!

When we got back from the shopping adventure, the whole floor had a pizza party in the lounge and decorated it for a res competition – Haunted house. We all dressed up scary and scared the res heads when they came to inspect. A group of us went to the marketplace afterwards to get dinner in our costumes. We got many strange looks from that haha. After dinner, Taylor and I went and annoyed a bunch of people on the floor interrogating them with random questions. It was really funny but turned out to be good to find out more about some of them.

Monday – I woke up when it was still dark!!! That was tough! Lucky I only have to do it once a week. Classes were aight. Did some vacuuming and washing in the afternoon. Then played some soccer with the crew from my floor. Got pretty muddy from that. On Monday night, I played ice hockey for the second time. This time I was a bit better and got a few good touches on the puck. It was really fun. It is always great to hang out with the bcf people. They are very inclusive, friendly and encouraging. Great people.

Tuesday – Shelby and I went to the pen centre to get some cash out, and also check out some necessities for Halloween costumes. I had class in the afternoon. On Tuesday night I had volleyball then went straight to MW bible study at Vanessa’s house. We looked at the parable of the persistent widow, which was encouraging.

On Wednesday, most of the day was spent studying for an upcoming exam and working on my assignment. Thursday morning I played tennis with Ella for an hour and a half (beat her this time) and then played squash with Sophia for another hour and a half. Three hours of sport!!! For the rest of the day my shoulder was very sore and exhausted. I spent the afternoon working on my assignment.

At 9pm, I left with 5 of the girls on my floor for St Catharine’s biggest All Ages Halloween party at the Barracuda club. I dressed up as Aussie-man with my Aussie flag as my cape. It was pretty crazy. There were so many people at the club. And all the girls were wearing the skimpiest Halloween costumes imaginable. There were a lot of seedy guys there as well and I had to come to the rescue of a few of the girls on my floor from being grinded on. It was pretty cool seeing all the costumes but it wasn’t really my scene.

We got back to res around 130. Then a bunch of us went to McDonalds where we had to line up for about an hour because there were so many people there at 2 in the morning!

Slept in the next morning. Went to c4c bible study with Jaime, Mike and Tyler. I did some more study, went to Merge which was run by bcf and it was focused around worship. Straight after merge, Burgers and Hilary from Guelph came to visit. It was great hanging out with them, catching up over some dinner. Then we dressed up in some Halloween costumes (this time I was a fat lady) and went wandering around town. It was hilarious as Burgers dressed up as a ninja and got up to some ninja antics that we caught on camera. It was hilarious!

Spent about an hour at Tim Hortons, eating and chatting at 1am. Then watched a movie before hitting the hay. Burgers and I slept in the lounge room while Hilary slept in my bed. It was amazing how comfortable the couches were to sleep on! Probably more comfortable than my bed!

On Saturday, we slept in until the pm came about. Then grabbed some food. Said goodbye to my good friends, then went with Leanne and watched the Brock Mens Rugby game (win) and womens volleyball game (win).

My time here at Brock is just about half over. I have done many things already but still my time has flown by and I realise that I need to get out there and do as much as I can in the time that I have!