Sunday again...
Wow, I can:t believe its already Sunday again!! Been an action-packed week...
On Monday I went to Fukuoka for Orientation and training. As people warned me, orientation was fairly boring and almost entirely unproductive, but it was a great reunion... there were nine ppl at orientation, and we were all Aussies and had flown at least from KL together! Unreal! Cuz we:re all in a strange country, it was like being reunited with long-lost friends, even tho we barely know each other. I stayed in a cute little hotel in the room next to Lyndal, a Victorian who is unreal. She looked after me and helped me catch trains, etc. Training wasn:t really thrilling. OnTues night Bryan also came to stay at the hotel, and we met up with Belinda and Mike (Mike who I work with but was up from Sasebo visiting Belinda). We went out to a Karaoke place - very fun! You book this little room all to yourselves - how cool! Has a little platform stage with tv screen in front of it, and a huge screen for the rest of the ppl in the room. Didn:t get to bed til 3:30, which is probably why the rest of training wasn:t much fun.
- Tues & Thurs: 1:20pm - 9pm (8 lessons)
- Wed & Fri: 5pm - 9pm (5 lessons)
- Sat: 10am - 5:40pm (8 lessons)
- Sun & Mon: OFF!! :)
Worked 2 days and already getting into the swing of it. Fairly easy job, but I plan on getting good sleeps etc, so I can stay alert and enthusiastic. Also gonna have to be creative to keep Voice classes interesting.
Church: Ian contacted Robyn, who contacted Alayne, who contacted the Heath`s who are pastor missionaries in Sasebo, and the end result is I got to go to an English speaking church today!! Yay!! A Baptist church, but much more traditional than our church - hymns only, KJV of the Bible, much longer sermon, and I was really glad I wore black pants and a nice top instead of jeans (will probably wear skirts in the future - haven:t been to a church like this for a while! Interesting...). Met a couple of US Navy wives (pretty young - a bit younger than me perhaps?) who I will catch up with at some stage. They said they can get me on to the base to watch movies in English at their own little cinema! Awesome!! One is named Heather... actually, in a church of 50 or so people, I am the 4th Heather... bizarre!!!
posted by Vi @ 5/22/2005 02:39:00 pm
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11 Comments:
Good to see that you got to go to an english speaking church maybe you should teach them some more up beat songs we could send margret to help you get started. and the whole worship team He he he. good to see you are enjoying yourself.
Banana, what i wanna know is if you actually had a go at karaoke!?! It sounds heaps of fun.
Well, remember that "up-beat" isn't actaully what God is requiring of us in worship, but that we worship him in spirit and in truth, not just on Sunday but as a way of life, breathing, giving glory to him, honouring him with our actions.
We were teaching the kids in scripture the other day that the Kingdom of God is here and we grow it by making right choices. Every time we choose right, holiness, justice, mercy, we chose the kindom of God. And that is what HE requires as true worship. Oops, Sermon there!!!
Sounds interesting, glad you got to hang out with some Aussies!!! Enjoy hanging out with the "navy wives" even if they are younger... that will happen more and more as we get older and choose to be single... ARGH!!!!! It's ok, I don't mind feeling old. Luv ya heaps!!!! xxxoooo Tab :)
hey Heather, praise be to God you found an english speaking Church! that's awesome! God can teach us in all different manners, and amen to what Tab said, that God requires us to worship in Spirit and Truth!
I pray the preaching is good and Biblical, and that God will enrich your spiritual life as well whilst over there!
Sounds awesome about the navy wifes! Woohoo to the english movies!!!
hope you're having a blast!!
love Beck
thats great the you're getting into the swing of things pretty quickly. its gotta be heaps of fun. thats good that you found a Church that is English speaking, might be that tad easier to understand, hehe.
Cool, great too hear you found an english speaking church there, hope you can make good friends with the Navy wives.
Sounds like you are having fun :)
yeah so what did you sing at the Kareoke place?
oh and whilst catching trains if you have an itchy foot leave your shoes on, don't want anyone to think you need help jumping :) we don't want you back in a box
HELLO,HELLO,HELLO..
Oh this is so exciting, i can write to you!!!!!
Missing you heaps!
Hope your having fun, theres so much i want to write, but i cant, cause everyone else is reading this. EVERYONE BUT HEATHER STOP READING NOW. So who's Brian????? Just kidding!! Im so excited for you being there!!! I'll write you a letter soon. Ive been organising a candle vigil for Shapelle Corby.
So ive been busy, doing lots of stuff. Love ya, write soon. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
How exciting!! That's absolutely fantastic that you can go to an English speaking church. I hope it's lots of fun, a great support and great bunch of people to worship God and learn together. Those "navy wives" sound fun. Just keep being nice to them and have fun watching movies!!!! Yay. I like the change to your blog too. Looks great. Work sounds like its going well. Pretty good hours. And I'm glad its not too hard for ya. Been praying about that...and a whole bunch of other stuff for ya.
And by the way, my birthday is less than a week away. Ü
LOL!! Thanks for ur comments ppl!! And thanks for the offer Matt, but believe it or not, there:s no organ for Margaret to play here - there is a hymn music player that has all the songs programmed in!!
Karaoke was fun, and I didn:t know many songs, so danced more than sang - there are so many songs you can rumba to!
And Anna, Brian is too short. Besides, all the guys like Japanese women, so I:ll be coming back single- sorry to disappoint you! You can email me if you want, then everyone doesn:t have to read everything you say - look forward to hearing more from you!
And Kel, your present is on the way - hope it gets there in time!
cooooooooooool!!! Ü
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