Switzerland...

OK FINALLY i am back. Excuses?? Well I am super busy, but it has been on the back of my mind everyday that I needed to update on my blog...only to find that two months have slipped by.
So I am in YWAM Burtigny, Switzerland as a student on the "Advanced Principles of Communication" APC school. You can go to the website to see what the school is about... http://www.jemburtigny.ch/

APC CLASSMATES

I am really enjoying my time and am with a great bunch of staff and students. I feel quite at home at the base here since I have staffed another school here last year.

The school itself is very challenging; both in time and energy but also in the depth and push to learn to think in a deeper Biblical way. To many thinking in a 'Biblical' way may sound like we start to talk all this spiritual jargon and really not be not understood by most of the world....in fact the opposite it true. It is about seeing that God in the Bible is talking about EVERY area of life; how to run a good government, health care, business, good leadership qualities, good family lives....and on and on and on. We, as Christians, have often just made it sound all so mystical and 'holy' that we even have no idea how to practically put these principles into practice. These changes do not come easily though because I need to change the basis of my thinking; and that is a lot of hard work.

I have never had to work so hard on homework either. I am famous for being a huge procrastinator and leaving my work to the last minute.....here I need to do homework every night and 6 days a week. OUCH, thus nothing else seems to be getting done.

On another note, I have really excited to learn that in a photo competition I entered for kiwis on flicr (photo website), one of my photos was chosen from over 3000 photos to be in an exhibition of about 70 photographers and 100 photos in Auckland Art Gallery 6-9 March. The photo is below. Do not know if I one anything; but I am just happy to see it been chosen anyways.

On a sadder note; I dropped my computer last Sunday. As you can see from the photo below that screen has now got some very artistic inkblot decorations. There are cracks in the screen and slowly the dead pixels are spreading. The good news is that it should be covered by my insurance; now I just need to get all the paperwork in order for that to happen. I do not know what they will cover and since my computer to over 2 1/2 years old now it has depreciated a lot. The very good news is that 1, I have insurance 2, the computer is working and i can still use it now, 3, I am the one who dropped it so no one else needs to feel bad. It happens.

So there was a little insight into my life at the moment. I hope I will be a little better in updating my blog in the coming month. See ya soon