I know that you all are longing for the updates on the further adventures of the Turkey. Here comes a few pictures to stir up your appetite, and you will soon see more.
I am still doing good. Resting on the day of rest will be good, though.
Have a great day of Pentecost, and be a part of the global prayermeeting taking place today!
www.globaldayofprayer.com
Tenk at nå er dagen her,
som jeg har lengtet etter.
Jeg får gå i toget
og jeg er så glad.
Du kan tro
jeg skal nok rope ut
av alle krefter,
svinge flagget mitt
og rope høyt HURRA!
Ser du flagget mitt
rødt og blått og hvitt?
Det skal vaie fritt
og vise seg.
Friskt og vakkert er det som
vårt kjære, gamle Norge
Ja, det landet er vi glad i,
du og jeg!
I just wanted to tell you all that I am alive and that I am back in Perth.
This first part of the outreach has been really good, we got done what we wanted to get done. Almost, at least. Some problems in the end of our stay there made it hard to get the last bit, but it works without it.
Soon there will be pictures and all that jazz, right now I am tired from travelling, so good night.
-paulandreas
Tomorrow, Tuesday, we are flying away to our outreach.
I will check my email every now and then, but most likely, I won't update this blog until we are back here in Perth after the 10th of May, in one month.
Have a good month, feel free to send me emails.
Just some small pictures from when we went bowling on Thursday:
-paulandreas
The International Food Feast was a success.
We had food from a whole lot of different countries, and I think I have pictures from most of them:
The boy in the kitchen
Claudia making caramel
Sameh's Egyptian chicken dish.
Claudia made a French Pizza.
Steve-0 killed and cooked a chicken, sold it to KFC and bought it back from them, I think.
Jason's New York Salad
Heather's "White Trash Dinner" Chicken and biscuits.
Timothy's fruit salad
The ever famous rømmegrøt
Sarah's excellent bread buns, with a sweet sauce/gravy-thing
The Australian contribution. Guess what it is...
Nathan's plate. Yes, Nathan likes ketchup.
Then, when we were too full, the dessert came.
Nathan cutting Katie's caramelized apples into pieces.
Claudia made a French apple dessert with caramel.
Katie also made Eskimo Ice Cream which normally is made of moose or reindeer fat, along with seal or whale oil, honey and berries.
Along with all this, Liesbeth, our school leader's wife made a dessert which I don't remember the name of at the moment.
Katie and I also made our contribution against global warming: Arctic Ice Worms. Worms in ice.
Hannah brought British chocolate and chocolate eggs to celebrate Easter.
It was a fun evening, very much a stomach-filling evening. We ate some really good food.
Life is moving and moving, and I am moving along.
Today we had our last day of lectures, last day of teaching, and we are preparing for the great month of April where we will be experiencing great things and have much fun, going where God wants us.
This week has been all about web-design, pretty basic stuff, so if I am to be honest, I didn't learn much new things, but this has been the first week when I have felt like that. It has now been 12 weeks, and every week has been inspiring and I have learned new things every week, and many of the speakers have given me stuff that I want to continue working on, showing me some of the opportunities out there.
This week we also had the sending out of the outreach teams, The Commissioning, and every team does now have all their money, a huge miracle in itself, considering the amount that was needed a week before the date we had to pay our fees. More than 2,5 million kroner was paid the last week!
We have also has Impact World Tour on our doorstep this last week. For the last month, they have had shows all over the city, and have seen a lot of people respond to the Gospel and getting saved. This week has been in the Perth soccer stadium, the Perth Oval, that is just 200 meters down the street from the base, and tonight was the Island Breeze night, and people got saved tonight as well.
Please pray for a breakthrough these last two days, Saturday and Sunday. Saturday is GX International and Sunday night is a combined night with Team Extreme, Island Breeze and GX International. This is the biggest and last arena we are having on this Perth tour, so pray for these last nights, that people will get saved and we'll see this city transformed into God's plans.
I got to link up a ten-year-old with a discipleship group yesterday. Since we are leaving on outreach soon, I couldn't follow him up personally, but I linked him up with another local person who goes to a large city here with a god kids-program. It was a real God-thing, I can tell you more if you ask. This post is getting long, and I don't know if you read it or just look at pictures...
I will try getting more pictures up, I just need to get them off the camera.
Have a great Easter, remembering what Jesus did for you.
He really DIED. And ROSE again. Have you ever realized that he actually died? I need to see more what he did.
Love.
-paulandreas
Sorry, Norwegian secrets being revealed...
Hva er typisk norsk? Hva gjør oss til nordmenn og andre til ikkenordmenn?
Hva spiser vi som ingen andre gjør?
Hva spiser vi som lett kan lages
i en australsk gryte på et australsk kjøkken med råvarer fra australske butikker?
Jepp. Vi skal ha "internasjonal kveld" på skolen, og oppdraget mitt er da å lage noe som er norsk.
Smalahove har vært foreslått, men det falt bums i bakken. Brunost har jeg hørt er komplisert å lage, og jeg tror ikke kengurumelk egner seg til den slags.
Spørsmålet og utfordringen blir da som følger:
Hva kan jeg lage som er norsk, godt og enkelt, og som også kan lages istand på andre siden av kloden?
Enten en forrett, hovedrett eller en dessert.
Utfordringen er gitt, svar ønskes.
Tusen takk. Jeg skal vise bilder når festen er blitt holdt.
Vil gjerne høre fra dere, har email, myspace og skype. Ta kontakt.
-pølle
Revealing of secret ended.
There is this thing they call "sisten" in Norway, "tag" in the English language and as I tried to find out what it's called in other languages, i found this.
It has made its way into the realm of the blogs, how that happened, I don't know, but at least this is what happened. Karin first tagged me, and then Sven Erik, and then I waited for more people to tag me, but as that didn't happen, I started to think of the peculiar things that I have experienced, but not much came to mind. I found out that I don't have as many stories as many of the other people here, but I do have some.
The rules are:
"Hver spiller starter med å skrive seks rare ting om seg selv. Bloggere som blir "tatt" må skrive seks ting om seg selv i sin egen blogg, i tillegg til å angi reglene for spillet. Til slutt velger spilleren seks nye bloggere som "har den", og lister navnene deres. Etter det er gjort, skriver han eller hun en kommentar på bloggene til hver av dem, for å la dem vite at de har blitt "tatt", og at de må lese bloggen til den som tok dem for mer informasjon."
in English: (thanks to David)
In case you're one of my English readers this is a game of blog-tag, I'm supposed to write 6 peculiar things about myself, and then tag some other peeps, who have to do the same, and then tag 6 other bloggers...
My list is as follows:
1. I usually have a song for most occasions, if you say a word, my brain may automatically start singing a song, and sometimes it also comes out past my tongue as well.
2. I get more random as the night gets later, and dry jokes or big laughs may increase in numbers as the clock strikes midnight.
3. I consider myself deep and simple, and don't consider it a contradiction.
4. I have said no to cucumbers and techno music.
5. I like Norwegian words. Underfundig.
6. I hate pet peeves.
Now that you all know me better, feel privileged if you're on this list of upcoming "taggers":
Jan-Erik, Thomas, Salome, Kristin, Lyndee and Ingvar Olsen
Have it good.
-paulandreas
I wanted to find a more boybandish name, but couldn't think of anything. If you have suggestions, feel free to express them.
These are the boys in my small group. We've got two girls as well, Claudia and Heather, but for some reason Watto wanted the boys in this picture.
