31st October- Hmm

Hey people,
last week was a bit traumatic for me in Gib lol XD  well the Pirate Party was cancelled. Because we only had 2 official children signed in and it would be mean on the volunteers to arrive on the day to find hardly a "party". I am waiting outside the Cathedral Tuesday to see if any kids turn up and tell them its not on. I think I'm more upset about how things were handled though in all honestly, but I dont think ranting about it on the internet and naming names would be very appropriate :P lol
So yeah goodbye Pirate Party...

Ely Boys Choir has visited our Cathedral and performed a concert for us last night! Twas fabulous, I miss the music we used to do at home/on singing courses. They performed stuff such as:
Blessed be the God and Father- Wesley
Locus iste- Bruckner
If ye love me- Tallis
Let all the world- Williams
Panis Angelicus- Franck
Totus tuus- Gorecki
etc etc etc :P was pretty lush.

About 36 trebles, 2 male altos, 2 tenors and 2 basses. The sound was amazing!

Then they performed Messe Solennelle by Louis Vierne in the church service today. (Suggestion-everyone and anyone to listen!)

Been a rough week because of various odd things. But next week should look up =] a good friend is flying over for a few days and then my parents are visiting for the weekend. I'm in need of some hugs!

Missing you all.
Over and Out x

SOS BLOG

PLEASE! send millions of prayers! cross your fingers, wish me luck, Whatever! POSITIVE ENERGY!

Only officially booked in 2 kids for the Pirate Party and it's next week and it will be cancelled if no children turn up!

Please pray things start picking up the pace and that I will soon be able to go into schools soon as I have been denied to do this for a while now...

Ahh!

Let's create some miracles!!!

Over and out... x

21st October- Kalamari... om nom nom

I'm not going to write much today! Just upload some pictures =]

But here are some updates...

UCAS application update- one uni unsuccessful, one uni interview! (So I am flying back for a few days in early December if anyone wants to catch up!) woowoop =P 3 more to go...

I am attacked every morning by Nelson (aka the Cat!) when I don't share my breakfast with him...(the milk from my cereal...cheeky!)

Today I rehearsed songs for the Pirate Party with another leader, the CD player was broken though, So I had to run back to my old host family (which is 2 mins away!) grab their CD player run back! Was fun stuff though =]

We also rehearsed the sketches today to be performed at the Pirate Party- theme is looking for treasure aka Jesus! Now the actors just need to learn their lines.

I'm now addicted to bike riding and drinking tea!! How did this happen..

Anyways!
There is a beach and a boat bay 5 mins away from my new host home! So I went there today and took some pictures :P and then I sat on the beachside restaurent and ordered some Kalamari...om nom nom... But ahh! It's so lovely and pretty =] (The Bay not the kalamari... though thats pretty lush too!)

Please pray that numbers for Pirate Party start picking up =] thankyou muchly!
Now to make a cup of tea, Over and Out! x

  
1. View of Bay from balcony
2. The Bay
3. Another shot from the balcony

Theres a faint red circle around which flat I'm living it at the moment! :P

Bay Views

Another angle of the Rock..

Mmmmm..

18th October- manicure miracle??!

Okay I know I only updated yesterday, but something odd happened today..
I've had a small odd miracle :P
I've been having trouble finding kids for the pirate party and I was down town just walking about.
Then I suddenly  thought "I want a manicure.. I need a manicure....MANICURE!" and this is very odd for me, because I've never wanted a manicure in my life, I've never had one, never done one!
SO anyway I thought...I better get a manicure then.. lol
I passed one beauty place a friend reccomended but it wasn't open.
The second place seemed pricey so I walked on.
The third place my friend told me was "bad" and that I shouldn't go in, but for some reason I felt I should go there.
I went inside and said, "err....can I have a manicure??"
So during the manicure, I was talking to the lady (doing my nails) and it turns out, she had two daughters who went to church with her, but they didn't like the church very much. So I told her about my gap year/sunday school/the pirate party and she took my number and booked 2 places :P She's also considering coming along to my sunday school and bringing her friends families along!AND I got a discount! ;)
So two more kids signed up and georgous nails! What more could a gal want! :P
Over and Out! xx
P.S. Happy one month in Gib! <3

17th October- Sunday School and other various events..

Updates for this week? I have 2 children signed up the Pirate Party! woowoop lol only 2, but hopefully God will answer our prayers and bring along those kids!!
I have also joined a youth/Bible/leaders group in Gib, which is pretty lush, people my age! yaaay! Might find some team leaders for the Pirate Party, or just people to hang out with =]...

Today I had to lead Sunday School alone (scary stuff!) and because it was a Baptism service I had some children who weren't church goers. None of them knew what baptism was. They knew you put water on the babies head but they didn't know why. I found that really surprising!!
Anyways I started off with the children making "dove namecards" (Holy Spirit visited in form of a dove etc). So then I did a demonstration, I "baptised" a rubber duck (ftw! :P) in a bowl of water and told the children why water was used, and what baptism means and why we do it. 
The kids then ran over to the font to watch the real baptisms. They came back and we learnt a memory verse: Luke 3 vs 22.
I thought it was a good Sunday School =] One girl said to me, "I didn't come to church because I didn't know sunday school was fun!" happy days! One girl commented that her mum said she wasn't allowed to come to this church. Again the disagreements between donominations of religion out here are riddiculous. (I got some funny looks at youth group because I'm not a Catholic..) So please pray for these issues!

I am covered in mosquito bites =[ since I moved into my new home I've been eaten alive! (yummy?) I spose that's what you get for opening your balcony door at night :P

Last week I have done bits and bobs really. Lots of relaxing. Hopefully next week I will be more busy (I have to do some washing!?) and doing some more prep work for the Pirate Party (If we get more kids!) so please keep the event in your prayers! That children come along... And pray that I have the will power to keep going XD
Lets kick up the pace!
Hope the UK weather is okay! (I sunbathed in October, oh yeaaah...) XD
God Bless!
Over and Out x

Baptised Mr Tigerduck !
Oh yeaaah... even rubber ducks with stripes can follow God! (y)

11th October- New home!

Hello/Ola followers!


Yesterday I moved into my new home for the next two weeks! (The people I was staying with are visiting the UK) Its very nice =] I have a balcony in my room! It's a wonderful view of the bay, you can see Spain and Africa!!
I also have a new cat for two weeks, 14 year old "Nelson," Bless! He drinks from the tap (literally sitting in the sink) and likes humping pillows alot...


Anyway today was my first time riding on the back of a motorbike XD (Please forgive me mum, I'm still alive!) It was awesome! I gotta admit, I was a bit terrified about getting on it at first! The motorcyclists around here are not the best of drivers, but it was so exhilarating... I think I should swap my KA at home for one?? :P Maybe not lol...
Anyways I went to town, brought my regular mango sunshine smoothie, then got on the bus (90p return!) to "Both Worlds" aka the beach!
Its just soooo pretty! Why, oh why did I not bring my camera out today?? It was really sunny, and the water was really clear so you could see lots of fish! I'm glad I've found it at last, might be spending a lot of my free time down there :P ...


Anyways, I got back, and  enveloped 10 letters addressed to 10 schools to invite lots of children to the Pirate Party! God has sent me 2 children for the Party so far which is good sign =]
However Sunday school yesterday, there was only one child! Not so good, and still no team leaders for the Pirate Party. I will hunt for some this week ...!


So please pray for the Pirate Party progression for children and team leaders to turn up and for sunday school numbers to go up again! (And for my safety on a motorbike :P)
Thanks for reading, and I hope to upload some photos next time and hopefully have more updates.
Song for the day? Switchfoot- "This is your life" =]
Over and Out x

7th October- Pirate Party Meeting

Charlottey is very happy at the moment! =D

Pirate Party meeting was on today, we have 13 volunteers swapping duties for different days and its enough! I need to find some teenagers and team leaders but still, everyoneelse is sorted, happy doing other tasks. I think like me, the others are quite excited about doing some of the games and seeing children come into church!
Next week I will have to ask the local newspaper to advertise the party and send flyers to schools and hopefully children will come along! So thankyou for your prayers but please keep doing so! Still need some team leaders and children! :P

This week has been quite stressful overall. There has been a lot of disagreements and clashing and at one point I really just wanted to go home.
But things have sorta come together... Yesterday I spent chilling out in someones penthouse! The person had 3 ensuits, jacuzzi on the balcony (of 2!) and a private pool! So I spent lunch in the sun, swimming and drinking wine! Lovely...

On Tuesday was the Bishop of Gibraltar's funeral. It was a huge event! All the Scouts, Brownies, St Johns Ambulance, Cadet's etc were lining up all down the highstreet. When the coffin came out the Cathedral, there was complete silence. The coffin was then prossessed down the middle followed by six bagpipes and 4 drummers. Followed by police, then followed by Deans representing each church in Gibraltar and many more robed figures. The service was held in the square down Irish street. It was on the telly live and then repeated in the evening! It was a very interesting event to witness.

Today I recieved an email saying my reference to my UCAS is now attached! XD I can now send off UCAS and wait again for Universities to reply to application! Woowoop! (I also recieved my first letter from my Nan! Thankyou Nanny! =P xx)

So things are looking up more =] thankyou for praying for me, but please keep doing it! Especially for the Pirate Party and Messy Church day which are upcoming events in need of lots of support.

Thanks for reading, I don't think theres anything else to say... apart from over and out! x

3rd October- 2 weeks

Soooo after a stressful week of filling in UCAS, builders running in and out of the house, tidying my room (I was made to! :-O ) and basically being fed up, I came across Sunday School today!


Today was harvest and we had 15 children! Wow! There was a awkward moment at the beginning when a 6 year old looked like they was going to cry (super distraction skills to the rescue!), but today went very well!
We made a big collage of  Harvest using bread, lentils, seeds, teabags, pasta etc... the process was very messy but it looked pretty good after. I then had to take the older children to the (tidied up- still room for improvement though..) "childrens room" to play some games and do a memory verse!
"Give thanks to God for he is good, his love endures forever- Psalm 107" and the kids went around the congregation after service repeating the memory verse and talking about what they did today! Results! :P Thankyou for your amazing prayers!


A 19 year old was also in church today with younger siblings in sunday school so I managed to drag her into volunteering at the Pirate Party ;)...
About that... Pirate Party Meeting Thursday! There have been some changes too! There is going to be no parents in the corner with the family watching, because we are hopefully going to have enough CRB checked people and First Aiders there! So more space for kids and less distractions!!


Because orginally, P2 said we weren't covered and that parents will need to stay in a creche in the corner to watch their kids whilst looking after younger siblings, taking up a lot of space, making age limits/differences very difficult to make between younger kids and older kids. They also thought it would be good if parents were there to keep their children "under control." (I have always rejected this idea, why bother bringing youth into the church if your not prepared to deal with them)so yeah, massive improvements!
We will just have to wait and see though... =] =] =]


So things are looking up =] Keep praying for me please! Something big is going to happen, I can feel it!
This song has kept me going the last few days "So help me God"-DC Talk. Have a listen =]
Thanks for reading!
Over and Out x

Thats my "YAY!" Face :P..in Gibraltar..