Which Book of the Bible are you?

Decided to do this quiz after seeing Megglesworth's blog.

I guess It's mostly true. What do you think?

You can do this test too. It's only five questions.

Fight Club 23

Tonight I spoke to ben on Skype for just under an hour. It was so awesome to hear you Ben! Oh and thanks for posting the fight club 23 video on your blog! I hadn't seen that video in soo long, and I didn't realise until it was over that my eyes were filled with tears. I still have those washable marker pens with me if anyone wants to come over and re-enact it with me...

The approved way of eating them

(Not totally going against what I just said) I thought of everyone whilst drinking hot chocolate through my penguin and staring at my photo wall in my room. Here's a photo taken of me about 3 minutes ago, and of my photo wall.

Thinking about Reminiscing

Got to hear Ben, Josh and Lindsay's voices last night for the first time since Capernwray and Tauernhof. It was wicked awesome (JN).

Sometimes I tell myself that I am wasting the now by living too much in the 82 (ND) or the 04/05, but then I stop myself and realise that what I had was such a darn good thing, that it would be stoopid to let go of it completely.
But I think that perpetual reminiscing about the past can only give us the Uncle Rico syndrome. Instead we should look at Capernwray and Tauernhof as the birthing place of great friendships. I think it's brilliant when our paths cross, but even better when they are in constant contact with each other.

I hope we never lose touch.

Here’s to Starting Over

After Tauernhof finished I had a few hours stopover in England before flying off to LAX where I would be working at Forest Home for the summer. For those of you who don’t know, Forest Home is a Christian Camp type place in the San Bernardino Mountains in California. I loved working with 10-12 year old kids all summer and I made some good friendships with some of the staff there. I guess I’ll have mixed memories of this summer, as (with any experience) there were lows as well as highs, but I look back with fondness upon this great experience and what I have learnt and got to do.
I worked in a different department to Dawn, Mona, Sarah Sitton, Young and Dani Zepter, as well Heather from Tauernhof, but went down to see them every chance I got.
Dawn and I got to meet up with BJ (and his whole family) and we went to see Marisa in San Diego. Also, Kaylie Wilson came over from another Forest Home campus a couple of times, and it was awesome to see her again.

Anyway, I got home to England sometime in August with two weeks to adjust and hang out with friends before going away to Regents Theological College where I am currently taking a 3year degree in Applied Theology in a town called Nantwich in Cheshire which is somewhat near Wales.

I enjoy it here, I love the lectures, and I’m doing pretty well in classes, but I still don’t really have many friends. It’s ok but if I could, I’d fly you all over here just to be with me at least for a little while.
Oh, by the way, everyone should download Skype, so we can talk and I can hear all your ridiculous accents. Ha. No seriously, it’s awesome and it’s free, so join the club! There are only about 10 of us Capernwrayites at the moment but that number will grow.
There are other issues on my mind at the moment, but I think this is enough to get me back into blogging mode, so if I stop posting, then just keep hassling me. Don’t be a stranger.
I see this as a new page in my life, and I'm hoping I won't screw it up real soon, but it's good to wake up in the morning and see it as the first day of the rest of my life. I propose a toast: "Here's to starting over!"

General Update 2Jun05

Ok, so Rob Whittaker taught here last week on 1Timothy, which was really awesome. And great notes too. I think I took almost 7000words of just notes. I got to spend some really great quality time with him, and we went out for coffee, and I got to express to him my gratitude for all he did for me at Capernwray.
Then this week we've had (and still have) Chris Thomas who is teaching on Relationships. It is sooo awesome and I love it! I have learnt soo much, even though I thought I had learnt so much before during the last 8months or so. His practical advice and examples of experience really helped soo many of us greatly. (I hope that when I'm his age that I am as in shape.) Sorry, that comment had nothing to do with anything.
So I went swimming at the pool/leisure centre twice in two days last week, which was so much fun. The first time, I got to hang out with this bunch of girls which I hadn't really got to know very well before, and that was heaps of fun. And then I went with my buddy Jon the following day and we had a good time together too.
There are a bunch of people I am really gonna find it hard to say goodbye to when I leave here in 9 days. Jon and Alicia are the two I have gotten really close to and I have learnt so much from. Then there are the Capernwray people whom I have known since September. Jimmy and Brent, my roommates will be hard to say goodbye to, since we have become even more close over the last two months, BJ whom I haven't spent as much time with here in Austria, and loads of other Capers people. But then my other roommates, Andrew, whom I really want to meet up with in Wheaton over the next couple of years or so, and David from Germany has been funny in soo many ways. Then there are the Abottsford girls who are absolutely fantastic and I have loved trying to get to know over the weeks. It's sad for me, but that's the way things go sometimes. ...So why am I mentioning all these people? Well, so I can look back and see what happened to these people and see whether I have kept in touch with them or not.
But hmm, anyways, I am looking forward to California in 10days, but I haven't thought about it too much, since I have so much here to go through first. Like on Saturday I am going to Munich for a School trip, which I am thouroughly excited about. A lot of my close friends aren't going, and that's a bummer, but I will have a great time in that great city anyway.
My thoughts are a little bit haywire right now, so I'll stop typing.

General Update 25May05

So on Monday we had outreach to this school and got talking with the kids. It wasneat. We had this class of 17-20 year olds who were pretty hardcore. I just chilled with them and talked to them in English.
Then we had family group like all day. One of my dad's, Christian, well he has this house up on the mountain, and we went there, and then we were taken up to this ravine where we tied ropes to two trees about 50m apart, over this deep ravine, and then we zip-lined down it. It was soo fast, and almost all of us crash landed, but it was so fun. No one got hurt. I mean, It was dangerous, because we just found two trees to tie these ropes to, but we had all the right equipment and two trained climbers. So, after that, we went back to Christian's house, and went in the sauna, which was soo hot. We all almost died cos we put it on so hot. There was a timer in the sauna to show when we had been in there for 15mins, and then we all jumped in his freezing cold pool which had water straight from the mountains. It was sooo relaxing. It was like a natural high. So when we got really cold, we jumped bck in the sauna for another 15! We did this 3 times, and it felt sooo good. Then we ate great food after. It has to be one of my highlights of Austria, along with going to HP's Farm.
So yeah, we had outreach again today, and we have gym hour now, and I think I'm going to go and play ultimate frisbee. Apparently it's a real sport.
Oh, and I'm gonna take the train down to Salzburg with a few people on Saturday, which I'm looking forward to.
Bye for now...

FA Cup Final and other happenings

So today's been pretty good, apart from Arsenal beating Man United on penalties in the FA Cup Final. That sucked pretty bad. But the less said about that the better.
Anyhow, a few of us went for a picnic today, whilst others went to Salzburg and others went skiing/snoboarding, and others still went to Hitler's Eagle's Nest. It was fun, though to just sit in the hot sun and soak it up in the mountains.
Last night a few of us snuck out to the discoteque which was fun, but there weren't many people danced apart from us. It was cool though.
That's about it.

Oww! My Freakin' Eye Hurts!

So I've been playing a little bit for the Sportsreach soccer team which flew over from England last week for their Austria tour, and we played Schladming last night.
So, during the match I got hit in the eye pretty hard as I turned towards the ball, but right before that, a guy put his finger in my left eye and hooked it out, so when it was hit, the front of the cornea was scraped pretty bad and I had to be taken to hospital. But they weren't sure about internal bleeding in my head and stuff even though they did a few x-rays on my skull to check for skull fractures. So they ambulanced me over to Salzburg, which was nice, although I had like the worst headache ever, and I got sent to an eye specialist, who had to anaesthetize my eye, and I was like, 'no way am I gonna let you stick that needle in my eyeball! Is there any other way?' and the doc was like, 'yeah, there's this other stuff which I can drip in but it's gonna burn your eye out of your socket!' So I was like, 'Ok' and took that instead. Half a minute later I was writhing in agony whilst the eye doctor was cowering in some corner (i think). Anyways, they pumped loadsa drugs and stuff into my eye, (i think to widen my pupil or sumthin), and I'm eye-patched up now which is nice. My friend Jon who's an artist, drew this eye and eyebrow on my patch and made it cross-eyed, and nobody can seem to look me in the face without laughing. It'll hopefully heal before I arrive. I'm pretty confident about that. Oh and yeah, I forgot to tell ya, that my jaw got dislocated by the umpact, but I put my face against a wall and I got it knocked back in, so it's ok now, just a little bruised.
Feel free to post this story to everyone if you think it's not inappropriate.
Anyways, the right side of Austria is great, as for the left side, well, I can't see it right now unless I turn my head.

Travel Weekend at HP's Farm

So much has happened here in Austria since I last posted, and I won't be able to remember it all right now, But that's ok.
So this weekend was travel weekend and a lot of people went to places like Vienna, Salzburg, Slovenia, Trieste and other places in Italy. But about 15 of us went up in the mountains to stay at this guy's farm. It was soo awesome there, and we had so much fun. There was like no electricity, so there were no lights! it was crazy hardcore! Thankfully, we brought 125 tee lites so it wasn't so bad.
The weather was awesome and it was a great time just to chill. We spent a lot of the time on this great big trampoline, either doing flips on it or spooning with about 6 other people, or just lying there. Hans Peter (the owner) is this huge, stereotypical Austrian guy who wears lederhosen and Austrian shoes and everything. He is completely self-sufficient and we drank the milk from his cows, ate the cheese he made, and a couple of days befoer we got there, he slaughtered one of his pigs, so we had a great barbeque by his fire pit. It was brilliant. One guy, Jimmy, told us scary stories by the campfire and then a love story which ended up in people gettign murdered anyway, but he managed to coin the phrase 'Love Hurts!' It was hilarious. On the last day, he chased us with an axe, wearing pantyhose over his face.
Oh, so anyway, Hans Peter allowed us to stay at his farm for free if we worked an hour each day, which was awesome, because all I had to do was chop wood and I put up a fence post (which I was proud of) and stuff like that. The girls milked the cows and other stuff. It was fun, and we probably would've done it for fun anyways.
So yeah, I'm back at Tauernhof now and hearing everyone's crazy stories.
I'll try and write soon.