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!
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