Weekend: Bondi Revisted

It's been a good weekend of rest to follow up such a grueling two weeks of Intensives. Yesterday we got a posy together to spend the afternoon at Bondi with us. After spending an hour or two at the beach, we spent some time exploring the local shops. I bought some board-shorts on sale at one of the surf shops, it's the first swim suit I have purchased in fours years seeing as my work at the county Aquatic Center had been supplying me with some (thanks tax payers!).  Plus, I think it would be cool if I could somehow learn to surf, I feel like I would be cheating myself not to while I am here.

On our way back home, we discovered that the train station also doubles as a massive and quite extensive shopping mall. We found a place called the Reject Shop, which is more or less like a Big Lots. It was their I found a desk on clearance and decided to buy it at the last minute seeing as is was something I felt we need in our somewhat sterile quarters (we have a set of twin beds, one folding chair, a night stand and a rug to our name. Our clothes are folded in stacks on the closet shelf.) The desk was in a narrow 4 1/2 ft box so I figured it would be easy enough to carry home. However, it must have gain a little bit of weight somewhere during walk through the train station, on the bus ride, or  hike from the bus stop to back to our house.

After stopping by the house to lather up some aloe vera, we headed out for a Mexican food party. Feeling adventurous, we decided to take a "short-cut" to the girls' house after some persuasion from our dear Swedish friend. The difference between American roads and Australian roads is that our roads are set up in a grid system, cookie-cutting areas into blocks that makes alleged "short-cuts" possible. Long story short, an easy 20 minute walk took us almost two hours and involved far too many hills. To be honest, there were some moments of raised voices edged with intense frustration.

BUT, being Bible students, practitioners of grace and forgiveness, in the end we did find the way and are all still friends to this day.

Today was a much needed day of rest.  I watched a movie called 127 Hours that is now one of my favorites. The story is about Arron Rolston, an adventurer who had to amputate his arm with a cheap pocket knife after getting it trapped by a boulder.  What is kind of scary is how much of myself I saw in the main character.

The rest of the day was spent putting my desk together, relaxing and talking to some people back home.
Monday I start my real classes with video editing at noon. The school has picked me at random to be a lecture host...basically a teacher's assistant. I'm  really not quite sure what it means but I guess I'll find out Monday.

They played this song while warming up in church the other day. It just so happens to be one of my favorite songs.