Brock Week 8

God is up to something over here in Canada!

So the last week as with all others has flown by so quickly. Last Saturday night I hung out with the bcf people, played some pretty fun games. Sunday morning I went to church at the Pen. The main church broadcasts their service (minus the music) to the movie theatres in the Pen shopping centre. So we had church in the movie theatres, which was cool. It was funny walking into the movie theatres and hearing hillsong being played over the main sound system. In the afternoon the church was hosting a Halloween street party and it was pirate themed. It was pretty fun dressing up and just ‘fighting’ each other in the yard.

I met a really cool guy called Roy who has started Red Frogs in Canada after having studied in Australia and seen the phenomenon it has become there. It was fantastic to finally be able to talk some footy with someone as well! The kids that came by trick or treating had some really cool costumes, and there were some really cute baby costumes as well!

I had an exam the next day so studied hard for that one. Once that was over, my week was over because my Tuesday class was cancelled. Not too shabby! Monday afternoon I visited the doctors to try and sort out my really annoying cough which has been hanging around for over 3 weeks. Got some drugs for that – which turned out to cost 150 dollars! And I couldn’t get it covered by my health insurance…not happy Jan!

The rest of the days of the week are all moulded together in my head. Much of the time was spent actually doing work this week! I have a big seminar coming up soon.

Other activities included shopping trips, hanging out with friends, going to the gym, eating, sleeping, watching television, skyping, and playing the guitar. I played tennis with another BCF guy, Tyson, which is always fun.

Monday night was hockey night! I didn’t play but went along to hang out and watch. Tuesday night was our last night of Boxing Kangaroos volleyball. We got knocked out in a pretty close game. After that I took Sofia along to the Muskoka woods Bible study. We had our floor meeting later that night, after it, while Carly was knitting a scarf, Taylor and I stole her massive ball of wool and unthreaded it all around the hallway and down the stairs and outside and then back up to the lounge. It was hilarious… and totally worth all the time it took to re roll the ball of wool.

Wednesday night I went over to Josh Trinder’s house for a yummy home cooked dinner. After hanging out for a while we went to Sarah Brink’s birthday party. It had a lot of people. It was fun.

Thursday night was BCF bible study night. We went off campus this week to the boys’ house! It was a really cool house! It had 7 of the BCF boys living there….very cool.

After Bible study, Kayla and I hung out with Taylor and Jasmine (It was Taylors birthday) till the wee hours of the morning. Friday night Taylor’s twin brother came to Brock and we hung out for a while eating dinner and pestering people on our floor. At around 9 we went to Jasmine’s house and played some games including hide and seek which was a blast from the past…. I really have lost my touch at that game… I guess I am not the small inconspicuous flexible twisty guy I used to be. Later that night after I had caught a taxi back to res, I had a really cool chat with Andrew aka Soup.

This week I nearly got back into the time zone of Australia. I didn’t wake up before 10am and didn’t go to sleep before 2am. The life of a student!

Taylor and I have a new game we like to play at night times. It’s called interrogation. We didn’t even plan this game or speak about it, its just an understanding between us and it just happens haha. We just go into people’s rooms on our floor and interrogate and question them question after question for about an hour. It’s very entertaining. Some of the questions are pretty random and hilarious as well. And they often turn into deep talks.

This week God has taught me, blessed me, and challenged me in countless ways. I went to bed last night excited. My mind was whizzing yet at the same time I was so relaxed and content.

Ps. Its getting pretty cold, but I am persisting with the thongs