Visiting from New Zealand

Last week Saturday I went to visit my friend from high school who is visiting from New Zealand, Michelle Geyer... She left just after we finished matric so I haven't seen her in a really long time... It seems that New Zealand has had quite an impact on her... She now has quite a nice accent and is working part time at a christian creche and studying part time as well... Her sister Tracey has grown so much since I last saw her... She is now in what is the equivalent of grade 11 in South Africa...  I also saw Alicia there and we all had a great time of catching up... Really fun morning...

From left to right: Alicia, Me, Michelle

Tower of YFL

We arrived at church on Friday to find a giant tower of chairs on the stage, almost touching the ceiling... This is what Vince and Jason called the tower of YFL... It took them 1 and a half hours to build and about 10 minutes to take apart... Now we know what the year for lifers do for fun when they get bored...

Ryan's Gr7 dance

Last week Ryan had a Gr7 dance at his school as part of his life orientation course where they were put into groups and had to do 4 different dances for marks. I know they did the hustle, boogie and sokkie but i can't remember the 4th one. I can't believe how fast Ryan has grown up. My mom asked me to go past the house before they left to take some photos of Ryan and his friend Xolani. Naturally I got some really funny poses along with the normal ones. And... I caught them on video without them knowing... Hahaha... Well they did realise towards the end... But anyway, here are some of my favourite photos, but unfortunately I couldn't upload the video... Fortunate for Ryan and Xolani I guess...

Power camp

Last weekend some of our youth, along with the year for lifers and Michael and I, went along to Power camp... It was an amazing time of Hearing God's word, fellowship and fund and games... Clint archer, the speaker, taught the youth very practically about getting a christian worldveiw... We met alot of new people as we were split into different teams in which we shared devotions, played team games, completed an obstacle course, and put on a skit... I'm proud to say the STONE team won overall... That's the team Michael and I were the leaders of and Chantelle and Mbali were part of... An amazing weekend...

Alicia's 1920's jazz 21st party

We recently went to one of my friends 21st birthday party; it was a 1920's jazz dress up. When we arrived we got told that at each table one person would have to say a surpise speech during the course of the evening. The 'lucky' one had a peice of paper with a topic on the leg of their chair. Joshua from our table gave the speech. It was a fun night and it was great to catch up with Whitney and her soon to be husband as well. 

Michael and I dressed Jazz

The birthday girl- Alicia

Whitney and her fiance

3rd term youth

Last night was our second evening of the third term of youth this year, and because it's the third term gr7 are now allowed to join the youth... And so we had quite a few new youth members last night which made the youth pad quite packed, although it would still be great to have more teenagers join us of course. We had lots of fun getting to know one another and learning more about what the old testament is all about.

Some of the new members filling out questionnaires

Roses

Yesterday Michael came home with some beautiful red roses for me; it was so romantic and it made my day... I love you lots Michael!...