Time flies when you're having fun!

Well, i've finished 2 weeks of training for Step Out Plus! It's been fun so far, we're working through 'What Every Volunteer Youth Worker Should Know' it looks at all aspects of youth work and youth ministry, including the five principles: Voluntary Participation, Informal Education, Enpowerment, Equality of Opportunity, Incarnation! (Woo, and that was by memory :D) Gary likes to test us just about every day on these and he won't let us each remember one, we have to try and remember them all!

We have also talked about the characteristics of memebers within a group, e.g. dominator, motivator, spectator, actor, gladiator, placator, orator, and terminator! (woo again listing by memory! After talking about the characteristics, we had to chose one and design a potato based on those characteristics! Above is a pic of each of us lying beside our potatoes! (l-r Noel, Me, Gareth, Daniel, Ailie and the potatoes l-r are spectator, actor, gladiator, orator and placator) and the potatoes do not neccessarily reflect the maker of them!

We had our final weekend off before the hard work really begins! i keep forgetting that the summer, children's and youth work, is not going to be easy, but in reality will be a huge challenge which will differ from week to week! but as a song says 'If God is on our side, who can be against us?' (the Bible also says that!:) ) Friday night was spent tidying up the burn beside the BB Hall! Twas a good laugh and we got a whole skip full of rubbish cleared from the burn and the surrounding area! (plus it was burgers or hot dogs all round afterwards, yum!) Saturday was spent watching my mum's Godson Peter (10) playing roller hockey, it was soo much fun, he scored a hatric in a game, including one where he managed to play his stick through the other 'netminder's' legs to push the puck over the line!

On Sunday morning Dad, Dave and Stuart headed off the the Royal Highland Show early, as D and D Clowns were back in action for 2 days only! well they were doing circus skills! Rosie, Mum, Pete, Rebecca and I went to church and then headed to the Highland Show! (oh yeah! i havent been well all weekend, slight fever, blocked sinuses and incredibly sore throat!) mum and i spent our afternoon wandering round the various banks to get our free 'high teas'. The RBS were the best, we got a cup of tea and a yummy scone with jam and cream! We also got freebies from some of the stands, like backed potatoes, crisps/biscuits and all sorts from Lidl. I even got to see my Mum's hidden strength!

Anyways, I'm off to Carronvale today for some residential training with the C of S summer mission team called Impact! IM still in my pjs, so should probably go and get ready!

For more details of Step Out Plus and what i'm actually doing for the summer check out the busy website!

"As water reflects a face, so a man's heart reflects the man. " Proverbs 27:19 "Remember the Lord in all that you do and He will give you success!" Proverbs 3:6

June is bursting out all over!

Well hello there Chinas!

Yes June has sped by so far! what with the CU Ball and us all looking very dapper in our fancy frocks!

Then there was Sports day! Where Castlehill Baptist won the 18 and under netball tournament! (again pretty much thrashing all the other teams, but they didn't win by as big a margin as the Kirkintilloch under 25 team, we won one of our games 10 to 0!) oh yeah, i was a traitor for the day playing for the Kirkie under 25 team and helping them to victory! but here's the CBC winners!

Then there was my holiday and general 'taking time out of doing everything except relaxing and being a tourist' week in FUNdee (happy angela? i didn't call it Scumdee!) i'll post some gorgeous St Andy's photos at some point, but cameras are all mucked up at the moment! lol! Friday night was skiing at Xscape with the BB, again it was amazing and i managed to get into the swing (little ski joke there!) of things quickly and worked hard on perfecting my parallell turns! i even managed to go over a jump once or twice!

Frenzy was on Satuday and it was brilliant! I even drove through to Edinburgh, which was good fun! (and thanks to the guys who were driving the other cars for keeping me safe!) Favourites this year were Starfield and of course David Crowder (i think they were better last year, but still loved them!) Hillsong were alright, but i'd heard their talk before when i saw them last year in Dunfermline, that was slightly disappointing, but i think a great day was had by all! Bring on Frenzy 2007! (and hopefully Switchfoot in August! woo!)

Monday was trip 2 to Edinbugh, this time for Cat's 'surprise' party. 10 of us met up had a picnic in the rain in Princes Street Gardens, and then went for a walk in the sunshine. The sun did come out but it was extremely windy, so much so that it blew over an empty glass when we were sitting outside at The Hub, that was scary, so we moved inside! After a mad dash to the station for Gillian, Lins and Sharon to get the train back Cat, Allan, Ann, Russell and i sat and had a nice ice cream in Princes Street Gardens before i got the train back to Glasgow to have dinner with the family for Stuarts 23rd Bday!

After some ironing (whilst watching the Italy vs Ghana game!) i sat down properly for the first time since Thursday! but then i fell asleep and dad woke me up to tell me to go to bed!

Today was my first day of Step Out Plus training (and day 3 in Edinburgh)! I finally got to meet the whole team, i already knew noel, but i met Gareth, Ailie and Daniel today, they all seem really nice people and i think we will have a whole load of fun over the summer! as well as all the challenges that will face us along the way! I will maybe blog more about the training tomorrow night as right now i need tea and then a good sleep before day 4 in Edinburgh for more training.

Good night and God bless.

Those Summer Nights!

It's Summer! well it's June, that counts as summer to me!

Lots of stuff has happened since i last blogged, i finished my second year of uni! Yay, am halfway through my degree! am just waiting on assignment results to come up on PEGASUS! Since i finished uni i have done a lot of shopping! and i mean a lot! i never thought i was this bad! but Debenhams had a sale, and sale is one of my favourite words! But i've enjoyed shopping with Fiona and Angela and trying very hard to make them not buy things! (Or not hehehe)

I shall leave you with a photo of a random event that actually happened ages ago, but that i have been meaning to post!

Small group night out!

Im back off to watch 'Super Sweet 16' on MTV its hilarious, those kids are sooo incredibly stuck up and don't understand the actual value of money or what it is like to actually have to work for money and not rely on mummy and daddy! makes good tv tho! hehehe!

Its the CU ball 2nite, a masquerade ball! i can't wait, everybody is going to be dressed to the nines -hav no idea what that means- but kilts have been hired, dresses (or accessories) have been bought, masks (hats and fairy wings?!) have been bought or made its just the waiting now!

Anyways, hope ur good, healthy and happy!