How am I supposed to feel?! I have just experienced the most amazing four weeks, created incredible friendships/family and now the school has ended, people have gone and… I have no idea. What do you do with this information? This, experience? How do you settle back into what was, having experienced what has been and… [Read more…]
July 3, 2011
Saturday 2nd July. Oh snap. Scotland, Ireland, Alaska and some other states met up in a wee local car park to travel onwards and outwards to Lake Shasta. Chris and I joined Erik & Wee Chris (party to the Alaskan Experience) in their car and journeyed outwards towards Shasta, supported by 90 minutes of great… [Read more…]
July 2, 2011
Here is, eh, an update. This week has been an amazing week for friendship. We’ve had so many great times laughing and sharing together, across many different apartments, and with so many different groups of people. Redding’s water park was rented out for our school and it was a perfect opportunity to join with different… [Read more…]
June 26, 2011
I attended a conference! As part of the school of worship we were given free access to this conference. It was ha-mazing! Consisted of seven sessions that began on Wednesday evening and finished on Friday night. Ohhhhh Emmmm Geeeeeeebers. I actually had no idea what this conference was about when I arrived. When we arrived… [Read more…]
June 22, 2011
What is the point? Why half believe in God? Even, why believe in God and the things he says and does and not do something about it? This whole school/experience/bonanza, mind your knees, is becoming challenging. I am here, in a school that is taught by a Church that lives in “connection” with Jesus, with… [Read more…]
June 22, 2011
Ah hod a wee blast so ah did. Friday night was spent at a Bethel Evening meeting, c’était beast. The drummer new every groove to play, every fill, every dynamic change that would lead into a new sound. Honestly, he was more of a worship leader than the main dude that night. To explain: in… [Read more…]
June 18, 2011
This is an update, I’ve finally found internet. Prepare yourselves and ready your caps, we are journeying back in time. RECAP! Oh my, this is a school to be excited about. I have had a most excellent time. The culture these people live in is unlike anything else! They could be on the stage, they… [Read more…]
June 18, 2011
And so am I. Red raw. I’d take a picture, but my mother would enjoy recognising me so I won’t. I jest, It’s only my back and thighs, but it’s the kind of colour you’d want a rare steak to be. If the ladies don’t love me, the men will be all over, prodding me… [Read more…]
June 12, 2011
I am not a big fan of water. I’m not the best swimmer and I’m not keen when it shoots up your nose, in your ears and out of your mouth. Alas, water activities are the past times of the Reds, or Reddingers, or Dingers, or Dingoes. Dingo ate my baby. Sticking with Reds. On… [Read more…]
June 12, 2011
Menfolk/David/hurried people, scroll to the end. “Living without internet? Oh my, that’s gonna be tricky.” Okay, that’s easily done. Living without clean clothes, that sucks. Leaving the airport with only our hand luggage, I was strangely optimistic. No idea why, maybe I was deliriously tired. Probably. My delirium in waking up and experiencing the… [Read more…]
July 15, 2011
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