Just watched the second half of the Southampton v Portsmouth cup match. Wow. It was almost as exciting as the Chapel game this morning (3-3, I got man of the match). But what struck me most (apart from the penalties and sending off) was the way different players handled themselves. Some of them, like Prutton and Hughes were desperate to get involved and provoke the other into throwing punches, whilst others like Primus (who's a Christian - any coincidence) stayed well away. I most admired De Zeeuw, who was a great captain and forcibly removed his players from remonstrating with the referee. The character of different players has never really struck me before, but for some reason today it did.
In other news, the Americans are back from Spain today. This will particularly nice as we haven't had a full team meeting since the middle of December, and I discovered that its really boring working on your own the whole time!
Saturday, January 29, 2005
Tuesday, January 25, 2005
A bit fresh
Ok dokey. This is a bit of a test. Xanga frustrated me a little - only people who had signed up could post comments, and I'd started to get wierd comments with links to porn sites. So I decided to give the competition a try. I'll give it a couple of weeks and if I like it, I'll stick around. Let me know what you think.
So, the last 2 weeks have been exciting: a campus project involving all UK campus staff going down to Brimingham and doing evangelism and training at universities in the region, and then a training retreat in a little place in the countryside.
For those that haven't read the xanga post, I was working at Wolverhampton for the campus project. This was my first experience of a small christian union, with only about 15 students. But it was really exciting and encouraging to see the faith and perseverence of the few, even when some of the student organisations (ourselves included) seem to sometimes overlook them a little in favour of the bigger universities.
The second week was a retreat for all the new British staff. Whilst it was frustrating not to be back in Edinburgh for the start of term, it was really refreshing (after a really intense week before) and i learnt a lot throuhg the training (mostly on growth). We even got to do a Myers Briggs personality indicator thing. And for those of you who know what it is, I'm an ESTP!
the not so friendly turkey at the retreat center
And so, I'm finally back in Edinburgh, frantically trying to recruit for our National Student Conference in 10 days time (any of you want to go?) and catch up with everything thats happened over the first 2 weeks of term and get in gear for the uni mission weeks starting in a mere 2 weeks!.....
So, the last 2 weeks have been exciting: a campus project involving all UK campus staff going down to Brimingham and doing evangelism and training at universities in the region, and then a training retreat in a little place in the countryside.
For those that haven't read the xanga post, I was working at Wolverhampton for the campus project. This was my first experience of a small christian union, with only about 15 students. But it was really exciting and encouraging to see the faith and perseverence of the few, even when some of the student organisations (ourselves included) seem to sometimes overlook them a little in favour of the bigger universities.
The second week was a retreat for all the new British staff. Whilst it was frustrating not to be back in Edinburgh for the start of term, it was really refreshing (after a really intense week before) and i learnt a lot throuhg the training (mostly on growth). We even got to do a Myers Briggs personality indicator thing. And for those of you who know what it is, I'm an ESTP!
the not so friendly turkey at the retreat center
And so, I'm finally back in Edinburgh, frantically trying to recruit for our National Student Conference in 10 days time (any of you want to go?) and catch up with everything thats happened over the first 2 weeks of term and get in gear for the uni mission weeks starting in a mere 2 weeks!.....
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