Final Days of school...

TUES JUNE 28

Well I know you're probably all wondering why it's taking me so long to post another blog update and to e-mail many of you people back. This is because it's the last week before everyone leaves (well except us returning students) and I really just want to hang out with them. I mean once you get to know people for 5 months you kinda get attached to them. But ya. Tonight is our Grad dinner. I would really love to tell you guys all that happened in the past week or so. A couple of the highlights include:
-Staff Appreciation dinner
-a cowboy dinner us girls put on for the guys

Sorry I really can't expand on them now. I'll probably post pictures when I get home (sorry you have to wait 'til Dec-Jan for that) But ya. I apologize if you e-mail me and I can't answer you ASAP. I really just want to hang out with people here until they all leave :)

I'll try my best to catch up on e-mails over my 2 week break. I hope that's cool. Love you all & God bless :)

Past the Point of No Return - The Phantom of the Opera

THURS. JUNE 23

Hello one and all!! Sorry i didn't update of the past couple of days. It's been busy with catching up with Outreach (ministry week) stories. Graham even wrote a song about his ministry team. It's to the tune of the song that Adam Sandler sings on the Wedding Singer ("I want to gorw old with you"). Here are Graham's lyrics:

The Outreach Song
We're heading down to the southern tip
We'll do a play in our big cardboard ship
All I wanna do is go on outreach with you
Wanganui is the place to be
We'll sing some songs at resthome ministry
All I wanna do is go on outreach with you

We won't crash
And there's Tash
Playing her part as the ditsy girl
Matt got a free
Kiss on the lips you see
It was put there by a lady who was 93

Did a Scottish waltz on the dance floor
It made me tired but I can't sleep cuz my billet snores
All I wanna do is go on outreach with you
Mainly Music was a lot of fun
It made me wanna make babies but I’m still too young
All I wanna do is go on outreach with you

Drove the wrong way
Were late every day
Used electric blankets cuz it was cold
Learned about Paul
Played fooseball
Tash got a fat lip from a kid who was 2 years old

Josh made lunch with a butter knife
He even baked some muffins like a good housewife
All I wanna do is go on outreach with you
Now we're back, it was an awesome ride
I hope until July I can stay on Ron's good side
All I wanna do is go on outreach with you
I'm really glad I went on outreach with you

Aw, I love my Grammy!!! Well this week we are learning about Jonah from our prinicipal Ron. Whenever he says that "God is the God of second chances" I always get the song from the Jonah VeggieTales movie stuck in my head. Usually on Wednesdays we have a video discussion. There was a video of Ron saying "This evening we are going to try out some new technology". So I thought we were giong to have his lectures on video. I was
sitting by Dan and he started singing the VT theme song. I thought nothing of it. Then the words "JONAH: A VEGGIETALES MOVIE" came on the big screen. You can just imagine how excited I was. i was even almost crying (and yes I have cried over VeggieTales before). I seriously had NO idea we were going to watch it. I mean I thought it would have been cool if we did but i didn't think we actually would. Man, that totally made my
day :) Danny and me and Stacey kept making comments during the movie and now I will never be able to watch the movie without thinking those things (ex. They are green black people! It looks like Graham! What are doing!) Good times :) I"m wearing my VeggieTales t-shirt today just in case Ron says anything about his "lectures" last night :)

I've been noticing that there are a ton of sweet as (that's a Kiwi expression) quotes that are floating about campus. They are more or less inside jokes, but I"ll let you in on them. (Yes i understand that you probably won't understand any of them, because you haven't gotten to know these people the way that I do, but that's okay too):

-Oh, you would!
-Who do you think you are?
-Just kidding....but seriously
-Aw, muffin!
-No! (only Ray can say that one properly)
-Brothers.....BUT....therefore...amen (we kinda took those from
Galatians 6)
-You don't even know!
-Clouds...Blue Sky....Sunshine...(inside joke between me and my girls ;) )
-MINE! (only Danny can pull that one off)
-WHY! (this is basically making fun of Ron's Texan accent)
-Huttah!

I"m sure there's heaps more (another Kiwi term) but those are the only ones that I can think of at the moment.

J-O-Y Down In My Heart...

So we did bible in schools today well actually we did 2 bible in schools things. one was an assembly and in that one we ended up singing a song that Lindsey really liked and somehow it ended up staying in all of our heads all day long. Here's what the song was:

I've got joy down in my heart
deep deep down in my heart.
J-O-Y down in my heart
deep deep down in my heart.
Jesus did it for me
so no one can
DESTROY DESTROY DESTORY DESTROY DESTROY!!
I've got joy down in my heart.
deep deep down in my heart :)

We also did a bible in schools class too...that was pretty fun. Me and Jordan did a puppet skit which was pretty fun because it reminded me of diong puppets at kids club with Courtney :)

We also just got back from Inbetweens which is the junior high group of Raleigh Street. It was really fun. We did a couple of wide games out at Capernwray Bible School and it was really fun & I got really dirty because i was rolling in the grass.

Before the games got started me & Becky had a good chat with Irene @ school (she's one of the secretaries there) and she told me that i got a package.
It was pretty big so i opened it.
Inside that one was a smaller package.
Inside that one was a smaller package.
Inside that one was a smaller package.
Inside that one was a smaller package.
Inside that one was a smaller package.
Then finally i found my contact lens that my dad send me last week. I still don't understand what all that packaging was needed *shrug*. Anyway it was fun opening it :)

I've noticed that my side bar is quite a bit longer than the actual text part of my blog. Usually the text WELL exceeds that sidebar. However I haven't had the chance to put up pictures since i left home. So that's why it's shorter. Sorry, that's just something I've noticed recently.

Anyway i guess all for now. Love you all & God bless!!

P.S. I bought another CD today....it was $6.99!!! And if you're wondering what it was, it was Sarah Brightman's Dive CD :)

More Ministries...

hello hello!! Well the past couple of days on ministry week have been filled with gardening, cleaning windows, bible studies, sharing my testimony, and kid/youth events at the church. but ya, that was about it... sorry i don't really hve much else to add. Oh, i just sneezed. LoL!! Anyway I'll talk to you guys l8er!! God bless!!

P.S. Lindsey (out team leader) took us down to a really sweet place where you can overlook Cambridge. Then we went into the woods and down some really sweet paths. Then we found a hude tree in the middle of a field and a few people on our team climbed it. I"ll have to show you pictures ASAP :)

Monty Python

hello one and all!! Today our ministry team did quite a number of things which included:

-Bible In Schools Assembly. This was really fun because we go to perform in front of about 80 some kids. We sang some songs and did skit based on Max Lucado's book "You Are Special". I played Lucia :) But ya being in that situation almost made me want to be an elementary teacher....just almost...

-help weed out some gardens. that was pretty fun. it was good bonding time for our team because by the end of it we pretty much knew how each other's "love lives" had occured

-we had a free night so we spent evening tea (supper) with our billets and then we went over to Jeremy's to watch a movie. We ended up watching "Monty Python and the Holy Grail". Good times :) It really reminded me of the Schem's birthday. oh and speaking of my Homestarmy, i was also able to talk to Jonny on msn for a fw minutes so that made me day :)

Well i guess that's all for now. Love you all & God bless!

Badger Badger Badger

Well today we were involved in some gardening, visiting an "old folks" home, practicing of our skits for Bible In Schools and then just hanging out @ Lindsey's house. The guys from our group even made supper which consisted of lasagna and garlic bread. I told them and they would make any woman proud! i was really impressed because it all tasted SO good! Then we watched "Beverlery Hills Ninja". it was a corny movie but still funny at the same time. but ya...

I also watched BADGER BADGER BADGER today. it's an internet cartoon which you must all see. it's found on www.badgerbadgerbadger.com I hope you all enjoy it. Remember how i told you that a bunch of us were in a phone booth and we started dancing? well this was the song that Dan and Graham were singing when were dancing in there. Enjoy!

One Way Jesus

argh, i've had that song stuck in my head all day. oh well. Some quik hightlights of today just before i head to bead...
-did our skit "In the Light" @ church
-helped out at a baptism @ Finlay Park by singing, yes i do actually sing ;)
-hung out with the youth from Raliegh Street and played a crazy game of Mafia

Sorry that's really short but , meh, i'm tired plus we gotta get up early 2morrow because of gardening and what not. Hope to hear from you all soon. God bless!

Cow Pies

hey!! i'm actually on ministry week right now. so far it's pretty fun. Today we weeded the gardens at the church and then we had a youth group event. i just got back from it. it was the MOST bizarre thing i've ever seen or done.

So we were on a farm in New Zealand
then it was pretty much pitch black outside
then we went into a field......however this was a Kiwi field NOT like a nice flat one back home....
this field was on a rolly hill with cow patties all over the place and they were pretty much fresh ones too
then we had to get from one end of the field to another and steal the other team's jug without falling into the mushy swamp and all the millions of muchy cow pies that were around
Joel actually puched Angela into the swampy mess and she go extremel soaked from head to toe. I think he fell into multiple cowpies when he was wresting with Jordan. All of us were mess!!! Argh!! See, if it was mud I probably would have dove right in, however since all of the brownness on everyone was pretty much cow crap....well it wasn't the most plesant thing ever. But ya, it was definately an experience of a lifetime....plus it makes a great story ;)

Well just in case some of you haven't caught on yet, my e-mail address in NZ is earleneulrich@capernwray.org.nz so remember, if you want to e-mail me you NEED to e-mail me here okay? thanx :)

Sorry It's Been A While

WEDS. JUNE 8

Man! I havne't blogged in like forever!! Sorry guys! I know you've all been waiting patiently gfor my next adventures here on the other side of the world. But I"m back!! I havne't written in over a week!!! OH Such craziness!!

Well let me see, a couple of days ago (June 4) It was Stacey's b-day!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY STACEY-FACE!!! So ya me, Nikki, and Ruth "kidnapped" Stacey, blindfolded her, stuck her in the car and while Ruth was decorating the Homestead lounge with streamers.

Um, Sorry again that I didn't catch up on a whole bunch of stuff. I few of th better highlights have included:

-giong into a bookstore and spending most of our time reading kids books and reading books like "baby's first color" type books. Ya, that was fun :)

-squishing 7 of us (Dan, me, Stacey, Graham, Ray, Nikki, and Ruth) into a red phonebooth. I got a video clip of us in there and it's pretty funny because we're all jumping up and down as if we were having a rave party. Graham and Dan were even singing "Badger Badger". It's really really funny. i"ll have to show you when i get home :)

-we also went into a household store and the guys were bugging us girls about how the mop section was "our section" because mopping is "women's work"

-we found some clear plastic boxes and garbage cans (they were clean) and Ruth got a picture of us looking at the boxes except i put a blue clear plastic garbage can on my head and when we looked at the picture (on my digicam) it looks I'm stuck in a blue bubble

All of those things happened on Stacey's birthday. Then this week started. We got our new ministries started up. I'm just staying at Cambridge with my team and we're all helping out at Raleigh Street Christian Center (it's a church). So ya that'll be fun. So far we're doing 2 dramas
and someone my characters always end up crying...I don't know how that
happened but that's just how it went.

Then a couple of days ago, me and Stacey tried to take Ruth out for milkshakes cause it was her birhtday (HAPPY BIRTHDAY RUTHIE!) but then
everyone else was either working on stuff or didn't really want to go, even Ruth!! So me and Stacey were kidna getting frustrated at the whole thing but Dan was like "oh let's just all go anyway!" So me, Stacey, Dan, Bethany, and Jake all headed into town and went out to the bakery. It was fun :)

Um, I guess that's all I really have to say for now. Oh and just in case some of you dont' know yet my e-mail address is
earleneulrich@capernwray.org.nz
That's just in case some of you didn't know that yet. don't forget I AM on the other side of the world.

Oh and about me staying here....well last friday I headed out ot Auckland and well I got my ticket changed from July 12 to Dec. 15 So that means I'm not leaving New Zealand until Dec.15 So ya....I guess you can figure that one out for yourselfe ;) Let me know what you think (use the
e-mail address I just gave you) about all that ;)

I also wanted to go to Australia sometime when I'm down in this hemisphere and I was thinking about going in October during a 2 week break that we have. However Becky informed me that she's thinking about giong to NZ in Oct to visit me. So that means if I wanted to go to Oz I'd have to go in July because I definately want to go home in Dec. So please pray that things work out for me in that department. If it's not God's plan that I go to Oz, that's cool too. Just pray that i figure things out ASAP. Thanx.

Oh funny story!! Okay so there's a few of us girls here at school who are making t-shirts that say "GO BIG OR GO HOME...GO HOME BIG!" I'm excited!! I think the plan is that we're going to put the total amount of weight gained by us girls on the t-shirt too. I just weighed myself so I
could give Angela my numbers....I've pretty much gained 23 lbs. Ya i know, how depressing is that!! I can't beleive I was scared of the "freshman 15"!! HA! But ya that's my sad depressing story of the day ;)

Oh if you e-mail me over the next week, don't expect an e-mail right away because I'll be away on ministry week, so ya, just to give you the heads up on that :)

Memory (Cats) - Andrew Lloyd Weber

MON. MAY 30

Hello there I think
I think I might try out a
poem, a Haiku

I tried it with a
and she liked it very much;
it may be silly

Raining lots it is
New Zealand is very wet
but that's my story

Sorry if that didn't work out quite right. For those of you who dont' know what i Haiku is it's a 3 lined poem that has 5 syllabuls in the 1st line, 7 in the 2nd and 5 in the 3rd. But ya, I just thought i'd try it out. There's really nothing going on here.