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Friday::

What a nice weekend. After the plea on my blog for something to do friday, coggo and chenny came to the rescue to organise some spur-of-the-moment skating at bass hill. These dudes there were jumping on a skateboard over two big otto bins piled on top of each other sideways. I think that's probably somewhere between belly button height and nipple height for me. It was great to watch, even if they did love themselves immensely. The park had a nice vibe though. Lots of people just skating around all at once, it felt nice. I managed to do a couple of little grinds which is cool, and some manuals. We skated til well after dark.

At about 8:30 these drunk dudes wondered into the park. One of them whipped out his shlong and urinated all over a ramp, so we decided to call it quits and head back to my house. I cooked some fried rice for coggo and chenny. It came out nicely. Coggo left, but me and chenny played some starcraft on the LAN. I think I'm going to try and get some more network games happening for such occasions.

Saturday::
Sleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep. I had a drama meeting at 12. The drama team doesn't really excite me spiritually. We have so much opportunity but we don't really do anything. I think everyone in it is just too busy with other things. Phil is taking things over this year. I hope he whips us all into shape. It was cool hanging out with cutler and link a bit. They are crazy. After the meeting I walked back to link's house with them and put natural selection on link's computer.

The night time was spent at connie's cousin's engagement party. I pretty much just hung out with the kids the whole time and by the end they were all like putting on shows for me and trying to sit on my lap and stuff. It was nice to know that I was entertaining them, but I always feel a little uncomfortable with phyical contact where I feel like I'm being judged or taken the wrong way. It's similar to hugs amongst peers and stuff. I am sometimes stand-offish towards people with hugs for no tangable reason. I can only put it down to an irrational fear of people taking me the wrong way. Which maybe could be better channeled into my speech rather than my hugging behaviour. I think girls get away with it more as well. It's more socially normal for a girl to hug everyone, or to be playing with kids than it is for a guy. Anyways I was talking to the father of the parents afterwards and he was thankful for me entertaining his kids, so maybe I have nothing to worry about, but I do like to be careful. It would really suck to not be able to youth lead any more because someone takes something the wrong way.

After the party I played some NS with link. He did ok for his first go. It was pretty funny.

Sunday::

Cross meeting! Connie cooked me risotto for lunch (MMMMMmmmmmm!) and I went off to church for the start-of-term meeting. I have so much to do this year in terms of responsibility. It's good though because I can really trust the youth to help me do some of it, and I think that's God taking it from me and giving it to them. We'll wait and see what happens though - it's a long year. I'm organising talks, and doing about 3-4 nights a term as well.

I'm really excited about what this year holds. It's going to be a great opportunity to do something special, because so many people are enthused and ready to serve and do stuff, and there is vision and leadership around, it's only a matter of time before things will start to happen. I hope I get a chance to be a part of it all.

The sermon was good tonight. Our church is going to take a role in helping the community more. We're going to do projects and services for sutherland and hopefully be an asset to the community. I don't know if I'll be able to be a big part of that because I live in a very different community to where the church is, but I might try and apply the philosophy to my own area.

There's not much else to say really.
Everything is going quite well :D

posted by hunt @ 5:23 PM