U2
Last night was sweet as.. beautiful weather, reasonable casualty complaints, a clued up partner, and the best location in the whole stadium! man i couldn't have asked for anything more in my wildest dreams -not that i dreamt that much -if at all- about it. I'll start from the beginning:
I arrived at 3.30pm as requested on the website to discover that we were duped into coming 2 hours early and about 4 hours before the concert started!! I wasn't annoyed .. but from now on, a packet of cards, paper and lollies will be a mandatory part of my first aid kit for boredom. Once everyone else started arriving, we got split off into groups of about 8 and headed off to our assigned posts. I would've been perfectly happy being on the highest level stuck in some room watching Wizard of Oz all night but when i realized that my group was on the ground level which was right on the mosh pit floor i was like .. hey i could get use to this:)
We then got further split into pairs and my partner was simply adorable. I think i developed a mini crush on him over the evening by reason of him being so cluey and friendly. I think he's the only guy i've ever had a crush on with blue hair.. hmm.. i should get out more:P
Anyhoo, right before U2 did their stuff a whole lot of us got called out for some unknown reason. I think we made ourselves very unpopular for being such wandering neon lights. We couldn't have been more conspicuous if we tried. It turned out that my partner and I were to be stationed in one of the 2 huts right in the centre of the mosh pit, behind the light & sound guys! It was absolutely awesome. I think my favourite moment was when i just realized that and not a minute later, the lights went out and U2 began.
The atmosphere and everything was just terrific. My first concert duty. My first concert
period. At the end of it all, we just strolled back to the station, tho not before getting some cool Pad Thai chicken (without the chicken funnily enough) which i split with another ambo. So there's my update for the night.
Today was the complete opposite. I finished making a little rocking chair out of wooden pegs not too long ago and I adore it so much. Can't wait to make heaps of things to start giving away. Looks like origami will be taking a breather:) The stuff i got at the fete before U2 should also provide plenty of craft-generating ideas for now.. oh i'm so happy:D
Mummified
My title doesn't mean what it sounds like. This past week has just been nuts and i'll need to take a step back and record things to make sense of them and hopefully, make me a little less mental.
Starting with today. Oh - my - word. I saw the uglier (and probably more realistic) side of my boys at after school care for the first solid time. I wouldn't push them to the impossible end of the category, but disrespectful sounds dead right. Boys were been yelled at, kicked at, and dobbed at. I felt like a sheepdog having to round up the victimised sheep a quarter of the time; in addition i also felt like a cross between a mum and a very ineffective police officer.
"Cops & Robbers" worked well to diffuse the situation before it snowballed. My plan to teach them how to make carob truffles also went off with the younger boys thank the Lord. I eliminated half the victims with that move. Next i organised a game of poison ball which went better than expected. And from there the arvo flowed smoothly. It just shocked me how openly the boys can show hate towards each other. And how wonderful some can also be. One boy gave me the little clay figurines he made last week (that I've called smurfs) which just made my day. And 99% of them loved the truffles so i finally have a pacifying weapon of control:P But today was just one of
those days.
And yesterday. FAR OUT! Whoever said working with girls was easy?? It was not as physically demanding as today but every bit as challenging. Time and again I had to knock out their idea of fun by stopping them from potentially hurting themselves. It's times like these that i rely on God more than ever.
*I just flipped open my bible and look where my eyes rested*:
Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in him; and He shall bring it to pass. --Psalm 37:5
Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass. --Psalm 37:7
Thank you Lord for cutting straight to the depths of my soul with everything you show and do. This job has significantly tested me. A red hot furnace at times. But I intend to be proven as true and dedicated to you all the way, as much as humanly possible. Because only things done for you count in the end. And how can i hope to withstand the harder things in life and glorify you fully if i stay within the safe confines of the expected and familiar all the time? So thank you for giving me these opportunities to learn and grow stronger from. Thank you for the great things that you do which i cannot comprehend. It gives me a hope to look forward to; the day when all will be revealed in tandem with your glory.
P.S. i can hear sounds from the U2 concert all the way from my bedroom right now! and pretty clearly too. I'll be going there tomoro.. man i hope those ear plugs do their work:)
Uni finished
Far out, uni is
already over ??!! (that only just hit me even tho it finished about half a week ago, minus the 1 exam i have in 2 weeks) It's so freaky how this year just zipped by. The second half is wayy more memorable than the first tho, and i can attribute about 95% of that comment to my job:D
I now work at 3 different schools - a co-ed public, a private all-boys & a private all-girls. I feel so privileged. Today i coordinated at the all-girls school and i felt psychologically drained by the end of it all, as opposed to being physically drained from the other 2 schools:)
I have no idea how things will turn out. One way my job has serially changed me is to take the future one day at a time. I remembered thinking about my last morning shift (which was yesterday) and it felt like a week ago!
Well aside from the kids which have taken over half my life, there are so many other things im looking forward to - the U2 concert i'll be volunteering at; Homebake likewise; Christmas xox; spending time with May and co (i miss them like crazy); learning to drive; swimming lessons; a mini-holiday or two; bushwalks; & Clocky!! It's released this month and i'm in stitches waiting for it. It's such a mad clock, and in tandem with my 2 other alarms, i'd have to be struck with the plague not to wake up every morning in time with the larks from the moment it sets foot in this house.
These simple pleasures will do well to keep me occupied. Anyhoo that's that. bed time calls.. toodles.
