Funny times

Every Wednesday our school plays sport together in the afternoon. Today we learned how to play touch rugby. I really like the game and am starting to get the concept of the strategy. Our group all works pretty good together and only one injury; Roman's (from Germany, 22) pinky finger got hit and popped out of the socket. The bus ride home consisted of some very funny moments on the part of our 11 guys that I just have to share. We were going to get back to base just in time for dinner and someone expressed there would not be time for a shower (unfortunate for everyone else b/c we were sweaty and gross!) To that Robert (from Canada, 19) replied, "Showers are for people with girlfriends!" ...laughter throughout the whole bus!! Awesome! Also, the guys are working on their language skills and have learned how to say "I farted" in 9 different languages, which they proved to us in this short bus ride! So us girls decided to learn some different ways to say it so that we can join in! I love this group of people, we have such great laughs together. Even the ones who are new English speakers manage to be amazingly funny and the broken English makes it even better!

Our school is going camping this coming weekend. Somewhere a few hours South of Perth. There will be time for team building, relaxing and beach swimming! I'm looking forward to our adventure. Look for pictures next week.

A few pics

Sports DTS boys in our bus, this is how we travel around as a group.

Cathy and I, welcoming people to our weekly Friday Night Meeting. It's church, just on Friday!
A peek at downtown Perth through the front of our bus. Notice the steering wheel on the right of the bus!

Too see more pics, visit my
friend Cathy's blog:
www.catharinelise.blogspot.com

The Jury Is In

Dear friends and family,
I'm excited to tell you we have been given our outreach destination. We will leave Dec 27 for Thailand. We will be in Bangkok, doing ministry via sports on the university campus and in orphanages. We will also be doing work around the orphanage, street dramas, help existing YWAM ministries and one that is being pioneered and teaching english on the university campus. I'll share more as I learn more. We will come back to Perth Feb 17, 2007. Then we will be volunteering with Impact World Tour here in Perth for 6 weeks. So my school that was supposed to be March 17 just got extended to April 8. Check out the websites to get a better understanding of I.W.T.
I thank you for your prayers for our team. I promise to share more as I find out more.
I am in my sixth week of teaching, this week on the Father Heart of God. Looking at how our earthly father reflects our view of our heavenly Father, if it is accurate and what we can do to correct it.
http://www.impactworldtour.com.au/

Much love, Laura