Video Scavenger Hunt

As the pictures finally wanted to be posted, I have to tell you about last week.
The base put on a Saturday night game, called the Video Scavenger Hunt (videoskattejakten).

We were divided into teams, each team got a list of shots they needed to get on video, for instance, two warring tribes. Every group also got a video camera, 90 minutes to do it, and off we went.
I got the best team, I have to say, we were South African, English, Canadian, Australian, Norwegian (not just me), American and Egyptian. The best. We went off, taking the best shots we could find, I was mostly behind the camera, except for one time, when I HAD to show off my break-dancing skills. Richard, the other Norwegian is very skilled at the invisible skate board.
Here are the pictures:


Me breaking the dance floor and Richard doing an ollie.


Melanie proposing to a statue.


Rachel eating what we thought would be an ice cream.


Yes, that's me, and yes that is the famous Nathan, yes, THE Nathan.


The two warring tribes of Chinatown.


The actual showing of the videos.


Which team won?
We did.

Parking

This car was parked outside the base. How did he get in between there?

Finally an update!

Hi everybody. I am sorry for the long time I haven't written, but this last week, the internet at base has been as slow as ants in honey, and trying the internet at a nearby cafe didn't help either, so my blogging possibility has been near to none for a while, and right now, the images don't want to load, so you should imagine the pictures in your heads now, writing me the pictures you see.

These last two weeks we have had/still have scriptwriting. (Å skrive manus). Last week was amazing, Diane Vermooten from South Africa taught us about writing scripts for documentaries, as with that as one of the things I really want to get out of this school, I was particularly interested. I learned alot, and also got the joy of writing back, breaking out of the box that most of us are put in at school or other places, teaching us to write within a certain limited time and space, destroying many people's joy of writing.

We had alot of creative exercises, and every morning was spent "free writing", writing straight for 5-10 minutes, depending on what she told us, writing either about a subject she chose for us or any subject we wanted.
The thing about free writing is that it frees up your thoughts, letting them flow down on paper, and you're not allowed to stop writing, even if you don't know what to write. If you can't come up with something to write, you have to write the same word over and over again until you come up with the continuation. So I wrote the same three-four times once, before I got on writing the rest. If you're serious about writing, she said, you're making this a habit every day, 5 or 10 minutes of free writing. Oh, yeah, the last thing about the free writing is that you need to know when the time you set is up, for instance, if you're writing 5 minutes, when your alarm says stop, you stop. Even if you're in the middle of a word. The mind keeps thinking of it if you don't end the sentence or the thought, even when you stop writing.
I don't know if all this made sense, but ask me if you're interested, I can feed you more.

It's 3 minutes until smallgroup, where we are going to watch short films that we made two weeks ago, I think me and Nathan's horror movies are going to be the best you've ever seen.

Have a great day.
Be blessed!

-paulandreas

Happy Valentine's Day!

Party on the beach

I am still alive, still doing good.
I have gotten so much positive response to my pictures that I, when I don't have any pictures to show, don't know what to post on my blog, but here goes:

We went to the beach last weekend, and the sun screen (solkrem) was strong, but the sun was stronger... :)

Here are some pictures from that day, celebrating Watto, my mentor-staff, one-on-one person, whatever you wanna call him. He turned older that week.

Enjoy them. I enjoyed that day.

ARMS - Shaking it...

We were out collecting money in the streets of Perth last Friday, and it was about 38 degrees, nice hot sun, an on the street corner where I was standing, the Shadow grew smaller and smaller until it disappeared behind the wall of the store. I collected a heavy can of money in the 3 hours I was standing there, making songs and rythms with my can and smiling to people passing by. The smile in the picture is a posed one.



This was the organization we collected money for, the relief ministry of YWAM Australia. It's a great job they're doing.