God and Men with Fluffy Beards....

So here begins yet another week in Perth !

So the reason I am in Perth is because I am doing a YWAM DTS !

But what is that you may ask ?

YWAM (sounds like “I am”)(Thankyou Loren Cunningham for that one) is a non profit organisation the specialises in teaching young and older people about God and missions. I chose to come to YWAM to better my relationship with God, which makes some people go “Huh, a relationship with God..... You have gone mad !”

The truth is, I was already mad ;)

I kid, I kid

But I did hit that point with God where I knew a certain amount about him, and knew him a little bit, but nothing quite satisfied. It’s truly amazing here as I slowly learn about the bible and all of its stories and the messages behind them. Pretty soon I’ll be on outreach, which is where I go overseas and help people, and I’ll have many exciting stories to tell you all, and you can read my usual rants ;)

But until then I will tell you about my week by week experiences J

<- Doing le Homework latenight at base with my fellow schoolmates

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This week.....

This week I started proper classes and morning workouts ! Now the first day of morning workouts we had a sports DTS take our school.... Now I know there is fit when you do sprints, but I think Ninja is a better word for our leader.

So I was in the last shuttle (group) to go, we did it in shuttles because there is many of us, and I’d look to my right and my leader would be there and I would out run him.... Every single time !

But here is where the really interesting part comes in J :S

Somewhere between hitting the halfway mark and blinking he would always be at the finish line waiting for the rest of us to finish.... I tried lots of times to see how he did it, and all I can say is that he’s fast.... Ninja fast.                                                                                                            Jesse's feet sunburn from Sat ^^^

So that started my week off ! During the week I had many fun activities with my fellow school mates including watching Tangled and a Planet Earth video. I always love a good documentary, but never before had I ever watched something that was written for the visually impaired. At first I didn't realise, and just had those weird moments where a whole scene is described to you and you just sit there like... oooooookayyyyyyyy.... but soon after my fellow schoolmates and I embraced this new way of speaking and used it quite often ! Some of our favourite quotes from the doc are:

“A man with a fluffy beard”

“A man carrying a spear”

And

“A man in a wooden boat”

These all seemed to revolve around men (How sexist ! Jokes) but what happens when it comes to describing how someone is feeling when they feel upset? Well you just slip in: “John looks very upset at this statement”...

Now I am not having a go at blind people, I am just saying it was a funny new experience for me. I did thoroughly enjoy having the scenes said to me J

Other than that I had some lovely life changing confrontings as I learnt about the character and nature of God and had to look at my own heart J

Currently I am chucking starbursts to one of my roomies as she does her journal and I type this, since she is on a top bunk and I am on the floor I have had some interesting throws including having her pen fly at me... Generally you put things down before you catch something ;)

So that’s my quick update J

Catch you up next week J

Tash

All photos are taken by me and edited, please try to desist from stealing them ;)