Thursday, February 18, 2010
Well well well
well it is time, i currently have 2 days left in my five day stretch of work days and i am so excited for my next day off you have no idea. i am not tired from physical labour i am merely exhausted form greeting a group of people where half of the people you greet rarely acknowledge your existence. Being a servant is hard but i have never been a servant to a people so blind and who purposely show that they don't appreciate you a single bit...at least they are honest. other than that my experience here has been like none other. i mean i am at the olympics and by the time i am anywhere near them i will be at a ripe old age. the other day i was just running my mouth off jokingly around other kaleos pretending my dad was John Furlong (Prez of olympic committee) and some of the other volunteers believed me and asked why i was volunteering. a great way to start speaking about your bible school experience to strangers. The experience at the olympics has quickly lost its novelty value and is now turning into a real work experience. It is really hard to serve at a place where its purpose is to promote world peace for a time period of a month but during the process stomps on on the human rights of the homeless and promotes countries to spend millions of dollars towards entertainment and making a name for there own nation. i Ask for prayers of peace of mind and heart and most importantly great conversation opportunities with soft hearts and open ears involved. Living with everyone is nice, but i want more room. people are always loud and it is hard to find a quiet place to do anything, its not a bad thing and it may seem like I'm complaining its more of me being bugged and a need for space, i find myself spending a lot of my time on the roof of the church to be away from people. The time here is excellent it has really turned into an exhausting mission trip and we are all in this together.
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
My Blog is Best read Aloud
Another week has gone by so quickly and I cant help but have a small count down timer ticking in the back of my head, counting down the days until I go home. Just to clarify things there is in no way any negative feelings towards this place, I love being here and being around these people. I am just so excited to be back home with my family since I am noticing everyday how my heart tugs to be around them, opposed to at the start of the year how It pushed me to get far away. We leave for the Olympics tomorrow, early, which is Ok because waking up early to leave for something (ie. snowboarding), is something that I am relatively used to so it wont be hard for me to roll out of bed.
Do you ever have one of those moments where you forget your age? I do it all the time, I just looked at a poster on my wall that was sent to me for my birthday “ 18th birthday” it says, and I was just reminded of my age, our age is not something we really recognize most of the time, or well I don’t. There are times in my life when I am in intense conversations and some how barf out pieces of wisdom that I didn’t even know I had and there are others where I am acting so immature and stupid that I end up getting kicked out of wall mart… (well me and John were having races on those electric scooters…Ken the assistant manager was not impressed). But there are times in my life when I realize how young I am and how little of life I have really experienced and that gets me excited for times like tomorrow where only a few thousand Canadians will ever work at the Olympics in 2010 and how even fewer will be there to be an image of God to those people who have never seen him before.
Things around here are winging down or I have be come accustomed to this place so well that everything seems normal and not really anything new or different. I got news that back home my sister Olivia is going to steal my room. I’m not bugged by it, I will just have to get used to the “possessed” room, which turn out to be my original room from when we first moved in to the house.
Youth is going well, our pastor was delayed another month or so in coming out here but that doesn’t really affect us because by the time we get back he will be at church running the show (hopefully). Things at Church have seemed to warm up lately, the people seem a lot nicer and more open to us students. Its just for the past 5 months it seemed like we were ghosts in that church, or just students visiting for the next 8 months, but now it feels like we are more in there family than ever.
P.S. look at my new pics! ----->
Do you ever have one of those moments where you forget your age? I do it all the time, I just looked at a poster on my wall that was sent to me for my birthday “ 18th birthday” it says, and I was just reminded of my age, our age is not something we really recognize most of the time, or well I don’t. There are times in my life when I am in intense conversations and some how barf out pieces of wisdom that I didn’t even know I had and there are others where I am acting so immature and stupid that I end up getting kicked out of wall mart… (well me and John were having races on those electric scooters…Ken the assistant manager was not impressed). But there are times in my life when I realize how young I am and how little of life I have really experienced and that gets me excited for times like tomorrow where only a few thousand Canadians will ever work at the Olympics in 2010 and how even fewer will be there to be an image of God to those people who have never seen him before.
Things around here are winging down or I have be come accustomed to this place so well that everything seems normal and not really anything new or different. I got news that back home my sister Olivia is going to steal my room. I’m not bugged by it, I will just have to get used to the “possessed” room, which turn out to be my original room from when we first moved in to the house.
Youth is going well, our pastor was delayed another month or so in coming out here but that doesn’t really affect us because by the time we get back he will be at church running the show (hopefully). Things at Church have seemed to warm up lately, the people seem a lot nicer and more open to us students. Its just for the past 5 months it seemed like we were ghosts in that church, or just students visiting for the next 8 months, but now it feels like we are more in there family than ever.
P.S. look at my new pics! ----->
Monday, February 1, 2010
It is Monday and I don’t know how I feel about that.
It’s the start of a new week! And I am really tired today and it looks like I am going to bed early to combat this early exhaustion if I am going to last throughout the week.
Jim Paulson is teaching us this week on theology. Hrmm we will see how things go. From what I have gathered so far from his teaching is not really much. It is hard to make some definite points from what he is speaking about if he doesn’t make them obvious. The rest of the week will solidify my thoughts but at this moment it is a “nodding of the head” class. You know. When you are sitting and are sleepy so your head falls a-bit but then snaps right back up because you woke up suddenly. Kinda like a one second nap Over and over and over..…….. and over
Youth is picking up really well. This semester we have a youth band in place which gives us some quality worship. We didn’t organize it, some guy named will did. That’s something bugs me every time I go to youth. I never know who are the leaders and who are the students! It seems every week, someone that I previously thought to be a student…turns out to be 19-21! Blows my mind!!!!!!!! But if I’m there long enough, maybe ill figure out who’s still in high school and who’s not. But other than that there is getting to be more of a familiarity between the students and myself, making it easier to carry conversation on more familiar ground. It would help if I could remember there names…..
If any one cares, Bob and I have taken fooseball to a whole new level. We play… to music from the Rocky films! It makes our already intense games, even that much more intense…and cool.. . . . .
We had a boys party in the office last night with a bucket of moose tracks ice cream and some root beer. I put it in the mini fridge “freezer” and this morning I went to look at it…ok me and Claire went to finish it off this morning after breakfast and it was all gone!!!! So if anyone wants to come forward, and give me a new tub of ice cream, it would be much appreciated.
I got a tattoo haha jokes, but I caused some elements of worry in my Mother when I sent her that very statement. Its not that I don’t want one.. well I’m flip flopping on the topic but I need to work out and get a better bod before I start tatin it up. I think ill get some sleeves… or a golden Hawk on my chest. I’m not totally decided but things will become clear when I go home.
Live free, Die hard… For Christ
Nate
Jim Paulson is teaching us this week on theology. Hrmm we will see how things go. From what I have gathered so far from his teaching is not really much. It is hard to make some definite points from what he is speaking about if he doesn’t make them obvious. The rest of the week will solidify my thoughts but at this moment it is a “nodding of the head” class. You know. When you are sitting and are sleepy so your head falls a-bit but then snaps right back up because you woke up suddenly. Kinda like a one second nap Over and over and over..…….. and over
Youth is picking up really well. This semester we have a youth band in place which gives us some quality worship. We didn’t organize it, some guy named will did. That’s something bugs me every time I go to youth. I never know who are the leaders and who are the students! It seems every week, someone that I previously thought to be a student…turns out to be 19-21! Blows my mind!!!!!!!! But if I’m there long enough, maybe ill figure out who’s still in high school and who’s not. But other than that there is getting to be more of a familiarity between the students and myself, making it easier to carry conversation on more familiar ground. It would help if I could remember there names…..
If any one cares, Bob and I have taken fooseball to a whole new level. We play… to music from the Rocky films! It makes our already intense games, even that much more intense…and cool.. . . . .
We had a boys party in the office last night with a bucket of moose tracks ice cream and some root beer. I put it in the mini fridge “freezer” and this morning I went to look at it…ok me and Claire went to finish it off this morning after breakfast and it was all gone!!!! So if anyone wants to come forward, and give me a new tub of ice cream, it would be much appreciated.
I got a tattoo haha jokes, but I caused some elements of worry in my Mother when I sent her that very statement. Its not that I don’t want one.. well I’m flip flopping on the topic but I need to work out and get a better bod before I start tatin it up. I think ill get some sleeves… or a golden Hawk on my chest. I’m not totally decided but things will become clear when I go home.
Live free, Die hard… For Christ
Nate
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