Lachie and his silhouetted coffee
We can fly!
My three excellent lovely staff people
The Cold Rock. Mint flavoured.
These were some of the pictures from the last week in Perth, it seems so long ago,
and still it's only been two weeks...
Since the last mysterious post, I have celebrated my 24th birthday, been watching the rain from behind glass, received an overjoyed jumping brother into my arms, watched two friends walk down the aisle of the church as man and wife and longed for summer as well as new good friends.
Life at home is good. It is the complete change of pace, coming from a busy schedule to no schedule. Is it good? At times. Is it bad? At times, too. I am enjoying it, knowing I have longed to be home, I dare do nothing else. I also miss the friends from my time in Perth, they have really impacted my life.
This was an update and semi-deep thinking, next time, maybe pictures will come as well, if Internet continues liking me.
After 47 hours of traveling by air and road, I am home.
My bed awaits me, I'll sleep well.
Good night.
I am flying home.
The next two days will be spent traveling,
starting Thursday at 3:00 in the morning Norwegian time, 9AM Perth time,
and arriving in my own bed at 23:50 Friday, after being picked up at the airport.
Please pray for a safe and fun trip, and I will see alot of you soon, and some of you I leave.
Hello and goodbye. All at once.
-paul andreas
I sit here again, trying to update you all with everything that has happened lately, but without using too many words.
I will try.
We have now been back in Perth for more than a month, and I have exactly two weeks left here.
We have been working in the office, learning much about the post-production of a video, that is all the editing, the effects, the logging and transcribing. If you don't understand, I might be able to explain later. :)
This was Timothy's birthday cake. Nice?
We have had a lot of fun, the latest addition to having fun was making a movie this last weekend. On outreach we came up with a story, a plot and some characters, and our school leader wrote a script and directed the best short movie you'll ever see. Start looking forward to it already!
Jason in the process of putting together the movie
People are asking me to see the stuff that I have made during this school, but that has to be done in person. Which gives me excuses to see more people this summer. As for the projects we are working on from outreach, they will most likely not be done in time for me leaving, so that has to be shown later. But just as spreading out the gifts over a few days, the joy sustains itself more that way :) "Må spare litt, vet du..."
Some of the missable people
I have been doing this school with some great people, and it will be hard leaving them here.
If you want a newsletter and haven't got one, please tell me and that can be arranged :)
Dance Dance Revolution...
It is hard to update everyone about everything, but this it for now. I won't promise too much, lately I have been bad at keeping what I wished for on posting on my blog.
See you later
-paul andreas
Hope you read the text and not just looked at the pictures.
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
