Today I woke at about 7am...but finally went to sleep again after checking my e-mail and eating a couple of bits of choccie. Then I had weird dreams about having braces again - except they were horrendous and made my teeth bend forwards and a tooth even dropped out...hate those teeth dreams - makes you panic so much when you wake up, but then a huge surge of relief is felt as you realise your teeth are normal.
It was our first match of the season today. So, I made sure I had some breakfast, and enough time to digest it. Don't know why, but every time before a match I start doing my coughing (like I'm going to hurl) thing, and it doesn't stop until I start playing...bad case of nerves or what?! Anyway, KCC C played HKFC G and at first I thought I was playing alright, until Babs told me that I was telling the right half to mark the person I should have been marking. Well, I had wondered where the forward I was supposed to be marking had gone. To be honest it was becasue ALL of the opposition had gone back to defend, We were up 2-0 at half time and we ended up winning 3-1 (but Jimmy had to tell me that because I thought we only won 2-1....good job I don't teach maths). The one scored against us was right near the end when everyone was shattered due to running around in the heat of the sun (2-3:30pm) and I was already marking the girl on the right post and there was a free player who managed to score. I didn't have a great game - some okay bits, but it is the first game after all...and miracle of miracles - we won! Plus we had a lovely photo of the team in our nice new kit (I hear we're getting new skorts, so we won't have to feel like we've got a constant wedgie!)
Just finished watching 2 episodes of 'LOST' thanks to my student who has lent me series 2 while baking about 50 cupcakes for Primetime. Gosh...aren't my Saturday nights exciting!!
Saturday, September 23, 2006
Wednesday, September 20, 2006
My life as I know it
I haven't really written that much about what's going on at the moment. Start of the academic year is always crazy, so it's no huge surprise that I'm only just getting to write about it now.
School started and so did the hunt for our grade 8 student life leader...and nobody really wanted to do it...mostly due to other responsibilities. I grew pretty tired of people telling me I'd be really good at it (sounds like I'm blowing my own trumpet...well...I do have one after all!) and I just really felt it was quite false even though they probably meant it, but I just knew that admin and our team needed someone to lead. Finally my friend and I decided to share the position....quite grudgingly. Thankfully it's been okay so far.......but I've had quite a few days where I have a really bad attitude to it and totally did not like feeling I had to do it just because no one else will.
Something else that is also new - but the HUGE difference is that I want to do this, is that I have joined Flight852 as a volunteer. It was cool, as I remember Matt had asked me several times before the summer, and I'd not replied. It was quite funny as one of the reasons of why I gave up being captain of my hockey team was so that if I decided to help with Flight, then I would have more time. (Ringing through the week trying to get the hockey team together was taking up a lot of time.) It was pretty cool as only about a week before I came back to Hong Kong, I was at Northgate Church in Chester, when I heard this speaker from the States. I can't remember much of what he said now, but I remember him talking about not being afraid, and you know when you just get totally convicted? Yep...it was one of those moments. Having experienced burn out through having worked with Youth before, and knowing that it had literally taken years to recover....I had been very cautious about agreeing to volunteer. I remember saying to Tom that it is something I want to do (and hopefully get some of my students plugged into too) and the most important thing is that I'm in a leadership team and somewhere where I'll feel safe and supported.
School has been good - my students are FANTASTIC again. Seriously - they are so fun, and I always feel like they energise me. I love laughing with them, eating yummy homeroom snacks, going on and on about LOST, teaching and learning sciency stuff - especially fun videos from the internet, some of them come to my room for extra help with Science and to top it off they think I'm younger than I really am!!!!!!!!! I'll be going off to Moganshan with a group of 13 students and we're the 'Pink Foot Potatoes' (Instead of the Black Eyed Peas) and I think the group is designing a T-shirt....and they're soooooo excited!!
We had the launch of the CD 'Who May Ascend' at teh Vine Centre - the place was packed and everything went smoothly (always important to me as the service manager!) but it was so fun watching people worship, and some of my colleagues came too. The CD is soooooooooo good. I've given wuite a few away already.
Hockey season is starting again - I went to two training sessions and then got drenched in the 'red rain' at the third. I have my new and much nicer kit and will get to wear it at my first game of the season on Saturday. Nice!
School started and so did the hunt for our grade 8 student life leader...and nobody really wanted to do it...mostly due to other responsibilities. I grew pretty tired of people telling me I'd be really good at it (sounds like I'm blowing my own trumpet...well...I do have one after all!) and I just really felt it was quite false even though they probably meant it, but I just knew that admin and our team needed someone to lead. Finally my friend and I decided to share the position....quite grudgingly. Thankfully it's been okay so far.......but I've had quite a few days where I have a really bad attitude to it and totally did not like feeling I had to do it just because no one else will.
Something else that is also new - but the HUGE difference is that I want to do this, is that I have joined Flight852 as a volunteer. It was cool, as I remember Matt had asked me several times before the summer, and I'd not replied. It was quite funny as one of the reasons of why I gave up being captain of my hockey team was so that if I decided to help with Flight, then I would have more time. (Ringing through the week trying to get the hockey team together was taking up a lot of time.) It was pretty cool as only about a week before I came back to Hong Kong, I was at Northgate Church in Chester, when I heard this speaker from the States. I can't remember much of what he said now, but I remember him talking about not being afraid, and you know when you just get totally convicted? Yep...it was one of those moments. Having experienced burn out through having worked with Youth before, and knowing that it had literally taken years to recover....I had been very cautious about agreeing to volunteer. I remember saying to Tom that it is something I want to do (and hopefully get some of my students plugged into too) and the most important thing is that I'm in a leadership team and somewhere where I'll feel safe and supported.
School has been good - my students are FANTASTIC again. Seriously - they are so fun, and I always feel like they energise me. I love laughing with them, eating yummy homeroom snacks, going on and on about LOST, teaching and learning sciency stuff - especially fun videos from the internet, some of them come to my room for extra help with Science and to top it off they think I'm younger than I really am!!!!!!!!! I'll be going off to Moganshan with a group of 13 students and we're the 'Pink Foot Potatoes' (Instead of the Black Eyed Peas) and I think the group is designing a T-shirt....and they're soooooo excited!!
We had the launch of the CD 'Who May Ascend' at teh Vine Centre - the place was packed and everything went smoothly (always important to me as the service manager!) but it was so fun watching people worship, and some of my colleagues came too. The CD is soooooooooo good. I've given wuite a few away already.
Hockey season is starting again - I went to two training sessions and then got drenched in the 'red rain' at the third. I have my new and much nicer kit and will get to wear it at my first game of the season on Saturday. Nice!
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
Sleepless nights
Ugh..cannot sleep - I got up from bed and did my usual - head for the fridge to rustle round for some chocolate. Managed to take two mini eggs and a mimi Reese's peanut butter cup. I ate them while reading a bit more of Ted Dekker's "THR3E" and then checked out a few friend's blogs before writing this. Seriously it's 1:30am....I keep waking up in the middle of the night and it's either too hot or too cold or no chocolate in my stomach. Really don't know why that seems to help but it does - probably all psychological - I don't care - it works and they're not sleeping pills. I don't think my body actually believes me when I try telling it that I am actually tired and do need to wake up in approximately four and a half hours and then spend the day trying to meet the needs of 75 teenagers who will able to come up with at least ten questions each about their research project like "What is a use of Rubidium?"...well at least I get to play with sodium tomorrow morning.
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