Thursday, January 22
Thursdays are sleep in days, so we get to have breakfast at 8:15 instead of 7:15 - but I had to force myself to go back to sleep for the final hour as I’ve actually gotten used to getting up early! Gasp! Where are the four horsemen?
The morning lessons were on intercessory prayer and diversity. The talk on diversity was mainly on the differences between “hot” and “cold” cultures and the ways they value time, personal property, and relationships, which was quite interesting.
Lunch was sweet Thai chicken with peppers and onions over rice. Every day we have lunch at 1:00 and at 1:20 we have announcements and greet any visitors or returning staff. The gal who was doing announcements today also asked a question-of-the-day sort of thing to test out an idea she’d thought up earlier (whoever answered the question would get a can of coke - a coveted commodity). She asked us to tell of a few of the differences between hot and cold cultures, so I raised my hand and answered.
Work duties after lunch, then I hung out with the girls in my room and we took pictures of our room and bunks to send back home - they’ll be online shortly.
In the afternoon we had a room meeting mediated by one of the DTS staff, Gina, to determine how things were going to run in our dorm room. The six of us have been getting on pretty well, so the meeting was pretty low-key.
We had free time before dinner, so we joined the eight girls in the other room for tea, picture taking, and a few rounds of the Ungame.
We had a session titled Making Jesus Lord. We were puzzled when the leaders asked us to bring pillows and blankets to the lesson - we arrived at the classroom to find the chairs pushed off to the edges of the room and the lights replaced with candles. We made ourselves comfortable on the floor and listened to a short recorded sermon and a talk by one of the staff then we were given as much time as we needed to pray, listen to music, and meditate on what we’d heard.
The morning lessons were on intercessory prayer and diversity. The talk on diversity was mainly on the differences between “hot” and “cold” cultures and the ways they value time, personal property, and relationships, which was quite interesting.
Lunch was sweet Thai chicken with peppers and onions over rice. Every day we have lunch at 1:00 and at 1:20 we have announcements and greet any visitors or returning staff. The gal who was doing announcements today also asked a question-of-the-day sort of thing to test out an idea she’d thought up earlier (whoever answered the question would get a can of coke - a coveted commodity). She asked us to tell of a few of the differences between hot and cold cultures, so I raised my hand and answered.
Work duties after lunch, then I hung out with the girls in my room and we took pictures of our room and bunks to send back home - they’ll be online shortly.
In the afternoon we had a room meeting mediated by one of the DTS staff, Gina, to determine how things were going to run in our dorm room. The six of us have been getting on pretty well, so the meeting was pretty low-key.
We had free time before dinner, so we joined the eight girls in the other room for tea, picture taking, and a few rounds of the Ungame.
We had a session titled Making Jesus Lord. We were puzzled when the leaders asked us to bring pillows and blankets to the lesson - we arrived at the classroom to find the chairs pushed off to the edges of the room and the lights replaced with candles. We made ourselves comfortable on the floor and listened to a short recorded sermon and a talk by one of the staff then we were given as much time as we needed to pray, listen to music, and meditate on what we’d heard.
Friday, January 23
This morning we learned about YWAM’s 17 core values. The base leader (I really must post names and descriptions of all the staff and students for you guys - that’s next on my list) had put together a sort of game with movie clips - we were supposed to match the theme of the movie clip to one of YWAM’s values. The base leader is American, so of course he had to add a bit of competition by having us form smaller groups and see which group could match the most correctly. 17 clips later (everything from Little Miss Sunshine to Fight Club to Ocean’s 11 to Bourne Identity) 4 of the 5 groups had gotten all 17 matches correct, so I and 3 other group representatives got up for a tie breaker - I just barely missed winning a free candy bar for each of my teammates.
The 14 of us girls started a new tradition today - Friday Tea. We’ve decided that every Friday we’ll have tea and play the Ungame - it’s fun to goof off with the girls for a few hours, giggling about all the usual girly things. I’ve even come to crave tea with of milk and sugar.
We hung out in The Underground listening to music until 7:30 then went up to the Leather Room for a couple hours of eating Toblerone, drinking hot chocolate, playing a lighter version of the Ungame, talking, and taking random pictures of one another.
Photos: Friday, January 23
The 14 of us girls started a new tradition today - Friday Tea. We’ve decided that every Friday we’ll have tea and play the Ungame - it’s fun to goof off with the girls for a few hours, giggling about all the usual girly things. I’ve even come to crave tea with of milk and sugar.
We hung out in The Underground listening to music until 7:30 then went up to the Leather Room for a couple hours of eating Toblerone, drinking hot chocolate, playing a lighter version of the Ungame, talking, and taking random pictures of one another.
Photos: Friday, January 23
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