In my procrastination... I looked up UNSW. Take a look at this pic:
Can anyone explain what the huge black wall is???From Car-O-Line
Friday, August 31, 2007
Google Maps - UNSW
Have any of you seen google maps lately? It's pretty good... and you can get good directions too... it shows you pictures of the streets and all that jazz.
In my procrastination... I looked up UNSW. Take a look at this pic:
Can anyone explain what the huge black wall is???
From Car-O-Line
In my procrastination... I looked up UNSW. Take a look at this pic:
Can anyone explain what the huge black wall is???From Car-O-Line
Friday, August 10, 2007
an update!!!
so... what's been going on since my last blog? So much!!!
switch camp:
For switch camp Doug came and spoke to us about Thomas (from the book of John) and what we could learn from him. We talked a lot about the different reactions that people have when they experience Jesus. A lot of the kids were struck by the fact that it's easy to say you follow Jesus, but harder to actually follow him. We're all keeping each other accountable now. We also had fun games and good music.
uni holidays:
before and after switch camp (although not during camp) I was sick. One week of a terrible sore throat (I suspect aa UPTI) and then a week of a flu.
Bob and Nicole's wedding:
Bob and Nicole got married on the 7/7/7. I drove Daniella, Veronica and Simon from my place to Engadine... it was a very long, fun, interesting and revealing trip.
Twin Cellos:
Me and Veronica went to the City Recital hall on the 13/7/7 to see the twin cellists play. They were really good. They played 4 different pieces, my favourite was the Rachmaninov cello sonata (solo cello) and the Elena Kats Chernin - "Phoenix Story."
Rice Planning:
there have been 2 planning days so far. I'm going to be on admin team and post-rally team. It's kinda a scary experience. So much planning and so much organising to be done. Everyone is praying that the BDO (which is tomorrow) wont be rained out.
MYC!!!
Definitely the highlight of my holidays. The topic for this year was "guidance" and grimmo gave some awesome talks. I actually went up to MYC the day before (for pre-myc) which was nice. We got everything organised and prayed and thought about how we can be looking out for those who might be anxious about myc. I had awesome room buddies for myc. In my room was Verity, Erin, Jess O, Carlie, Naomi and Anne. We all got along very well and had fun.
highlights of the week:
-seeing naomi come to myc!!!
-meeting all the first year arts (and the other arts people who I've never met before)
-free time - our girl/gui-dance - this was so funny! we basically all got together at free time and freestyled until we worked out some dance moves that we liked. Everyone in the arts faculty took part which was awesome. And there was an inter-faculty competition... and arts won!!! We are the best faculty ever!!!
-D&M's with erin, verity and naomi
-mafia in the prayer tower - we cramped in 11 people into one of those tiny rooms!
Things I learned from the talks:
-one thing that I never really thought about much before was that God is the one who made the world futile. This sorta shocked me at first but it's a really awesome that he did it... in fact it was an act of mercy!!!
-the only guidance we need is guidance on how to be married to Christ. And God has given us all the guidance that we need now.
Pizza at Alistair's:
Alistair makes really nice pizza... and really nice ice cream.... drool! We watched "The Devil Wears Prada." A movie that has always confused me... is it a happy or sad ending???
Anna's 21st/farewell:
straight after work I drove to Anna's party. It was a good party. The theme was "any wee thing Scottish" so I wore a wee bit of Scottish tartan (in the form of my red scarf :P). There were some really awesome speeches... like there was this whole presentation with audience participation. And there was dancing. There was a jukebox so we got to choose some songs. We all had a fun time dancing. It was kinda scary seeing people like Lindsay know all the lyrics to spice girls songs. Oh and Warren and Dan blue-zinc-ed half of their faces braveheart style... and at the end they were rubbing it on everyone. Very funny.
Parent's holiday:
after getting home from anna's and sleeping at 1am... I had to wake up at 4am to go to the airport with parents... then drive myself home at 5:30am. Needless to say I was tired. Parents went up to sunny townsville for a holiday without me... but that was ok. Cler came over a few times and we watched a stack of movies (including Harry Potter... before I finished reading the book).
Back to uni:
First day back at uni was really awesome. I was wearing my mission hoodie from myc... and I saw all these people I met at myc wearing their hoodies too. I even had some of my friends asking me what it was all about which was cool... although that was the only time they asked about it (after quickly realising that it was a christian thing). We also had our first prof prac class with Christine Logan. She's really encouraging and eases your nervousness. She talked a lot about our recitals... I'm excited about mine now.
post-Choir fun:
Me, Naomi and Erin are at it again. The first choir night back we went to the spot for pizza and then saw harry potter (again) with Dan W, Lindsay, Warren and Dave. Watching it again lets you pick up on things you missed the first time. I slept over at naomi's house that night (didn't have to go home because parents weren't home) and we stayed up talking and chatting with erin on msn.
chai chai time:
is sorta happening... something that I'm finding really sucky this session is that I have class after cbs on both monday and thursday... so I can't really hang around and talk to people. As soon as me and naomi finish class... we rush to chai chai to see if people are still there.
arts hang:
is happening a bit more than chai chai time. The only thing about arts hang time at the moment is that people keep on going to the wrong location lol. I've got some good feelings about arts hang though... I'm sure it'll work out soon enough.
prof prac preliminary:
played half of one of my recital pieces in class. first time my class mates have seen me so "angry" (ie: focused and serious). It was sorta fun playing for them... I must admit it was a pretty unpolished performance but that's ok... I like the piece and it should be good for recital time :)
other uni classes:
there is so much reading it's unbelievable!!! I've never had to read so much a week ever!!! And I don't like it! The thing is... our readings get checked... so I have to do the readings!!! GAH!
21st party research:
planning a 21st is the most difficult and confusing thing I've ever done (not really but I feel like exaggerating). I think I've finally got a place and a date that will be good-ish. Too many people are having their 21st in september which makes it hard.
Blood of Kings:
After choir I met up with Alistair and watched this play called "Blood of Kings" which was written by Alistair's, brother's girlfriend. It was a really good play! So cool that she (Clairie Ormiston) could write something like that. From what I gathered... it's a play about the tension between truth and thought.
CBS mission talk:
The 'first' mission talk was entitled "Why do Camels have more hope than Bill Gates." Chales Gajus gave the talk... and it was really good. I brought one of my class mates along and introed him to an arts guy so that they could talk. The talk was about "who can get into heaven." Talk about tough answers!!!
and there it is... my life so far :P
from Car-O-Line
switch camp:
For switch camp Doug came and spoke to us about Thomas (from the book of John) and what we could learn from him. We talked a lot about the different reactions that people have when they experience Jesus. A lot of the kids were struck by the fact that it's easy to say you follow Jesus, but harder to actually follow him. We're all keeping each other accountable now. We also had fun games and good music.
uni holidays:
before and after switch camp (although not during camp) I was sick. One week of a terrible sore throat (I suspect aa UPTI) and then a week of a flu.
Bob and Nicole's wedding:
Bob and Nicole got married on the 7/7/7. I drove Daniella, Veronica and Simon from my place to Engadine... it was a very long, fun, interesting and revealing trip.
Twin Cellos:
Me and Veronica went to the City Recital hall on the 13/7/7 to see the twin cellists play. They were really good. They played 4 different pieces, my favourite was the Rachmaninov cello sonata (solo cello) and the Elena Kats Chernin - "Phoenix Story."
Rice Planning:
there have been 2 planning days so far. I'm going to be on admin team and post-rally team. It's kinda a scary experience. So much planning and so much organising to be done. Everyone is praying that the BDO (which is tomorrow) wont be rained out.
MYC!!!
Definitely the highlight of my holidays. The topic for this year was "guidance" and grimmo gave some awesome talks. I actually went up to MYC the day before (for pre-myc) which was nice. We got everything organised and prayed and thought about how we can be looking out for those who might be anxious about myc. I had awesome room buddies for myc. In my room was Verity, Erin, Jess O, Carlie, Naomi and Anne. We all got along very well and had fun.
highlights of the week:
-seeing naomi come to myc!!!
-meeting all the first year arts (and the other arts people who I've never met before)
-free time - our girl/gui-dance - this was so funny! we basically all got together at free time and freestyled until we worked out some dance moves that we liked. Everyone in the arts faculty took part which was awesome. And there was an inter-faculty competition... and arts won!!! We are the best faculty ever!!!
-D&M's with erin, verity and naomi
-mafia in the prayer tower - we cramped in 11 people into one of those tiny rooms!
Things I learned from the talks:
-one thing that I never really thought about much before was that God is the one who made the world futile. This sorta shocked me at first but it's a really awesome that he did it... in fact it was an act of mercy!!!
-the only guidance we need is guidance on how to be married to Christ. And God has given us all the guidance that we need now.
Pizza at Alistair's:
Alistair makes really nice pizza... and really nice ice cream.... drool! We watched "The Devil Wears Prada." A movie that has always confused me... is it a happy or sad ending???
Anna's 21st/farewell:
straight after work I drove to Anna's party. It was a good party. The theme was "any wee thing Scottish" so I wore a wee bit of Scottish tartan (in the form of my red scarf :P). There were some really awesome speeches... like there was this whole presentation with audience participation. And there was dancing. There was a jukebox so we got to choose some songs. We all had a fun time dancing. It was kinda scary seeing people like Lindsay know all the lyrics to spice girls songs. Oh and Warren and Dan blue-zinc-ed half of their faces braveheart style... and at the end they were rubbing it on everyone. Very funny.
Parent's holiday:
after getting home from anna's and sleeping at 1am... I had to wake up at 4am to go to the airport with parents... then drive myself home at 5:30am. Needless to say I was tired. Parents went up to sunny townsville for a holiday without me... but that was ok. Cler came over a few times and we watched a stack of movies (including Harry Potter... before I finished reading the book).
Back to uni:
First day back at uni was really awesome. I was wearing my mission hoodie from myc... and I saw all these people I met at myc wearing their hoodies too. I even had some of my friends asking me what it was all about which was cool... although that was the only time they asked about it (after quickly realising that it was a christian thing). We also had our first prof prac class with Christine Logan. She's really encouraging and eases your nervousness. She talked a lot about our recitals... I'm excited about mine now.
post-Choir fun:
Me, Naomi and Erin are at it again. The first choir night back we went to the spot for pizza and then saw harry potter (again) with Dan W, Lindsay, Warren and Dave. Watching it again lets you pick up on things you missed the first time. I slept over at naomi's house that night (didn't have to go home because parents weren't home) and we stayed up talking and chatting with erin on msn.
chai chai time:
is sorta happening... something that I'm finding really sucky this session is that I have class after cbs on both monday and thursday... so I can't really hang around and talk to people. As soon as me and naomi finish class... we rush to chai chai to see if people are still there.
arts hang:
is happening a bit more than chai chai time. The only thing about arts hang time at the moment is that people keep on going to the wrong location lol. I've got some good feelings about arts hang though... I'm sure it'll work out soon enough.
prof prac preliminary:
played half of one of my recital pieces in class. first time my class mates have seen me so "angry" (ie: focused and serious). It was sorta fun playing for them... I must admit it was a pretty unpolished performance but that's ok... I like the piece and it should be good for recital time :)
other uni classes:
there is so much reading it's unbelievable!!! I've never had to read so much a week ever!!! And I don't like it! The thing is... our readings get checked... so I have to do the readings!!! GAH!
21st party research:
planning a 21st is the most difficult and confusing thing I've ever done (not really but I feel like exaggerating). I think I've finally got a place and a date that will be good-ish. Too many people are having their 21st in september which makes it hard.
Blood of Kings:
After choir I met up with Alistair and watched this play called "Blood of Kings" which was written by Alistair's, brother's girlfriend. It was a really good play! So cool that she (Clairie Ormiston) could write something like that. From what I gathered... it's a play about the tension between truth and thought.
CBS mission talk:
The 'first' mission talk was entitled "Why do Camels have more hope than Bill Gates." Chales Gajus gave the talk... and it was really good. I brought one of my class mates along and introed him to an arts guy so that they could talk. The talk was about "who can get into heaven." Talk about tough answers!!!
and there it is... my life so far :P
from Car-O-Line
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