Thumb

Pictures of my thumb, which I cut in Geelong yesterday afternoon.
Took this one in the doctor's waiting room:

Took this one back at the church, after my thumb had been all glued up again:

Beware the knives of Norlane

This afternoon I came down to Norlane (in Geelong) to visit my mentor, Luke. Stayed aound to help cook dinner, and ended up cutting my thumb instead of the cabbage. (There is a guy who helps with the dinners who works at an abattoir, and likes the knives really sharp...) I said, 'Oh f***!'
Luke took me to the doctor, who glued it back together and also gave me a bonus Tetanus shot.
Will post pictures when I get back to Melbourne tonight.

North Shore candles, grey zucchinis and lamb pie

Went down to North Shore again this morning.


Afterwards went and got some grey zucchinis (I had never heard of them before) to take for lunch. (Luke has organised some lunches where everyone has to bring a vegetable to contribute to the meal, so that people can make a contribution rather than just being 'clients' who need to be helped by the 'workers'.) Luke cooked a lamb pie. We also had some potatoes that a lady called Sue had brought.

Geelong

I'm currently staying in Norlane (northern suburbs of Geelong, near Corio), at Seedy Abbey (Norlane Baptist Church), with Luke, Kylie, Charlotte, Jo and Bob.
Slept in till about 11 this morning (Monday).
Walked down to North Shore.

Then walked into town.

Got some lunch in town, and some more floating candles, then walked along the beach a bit.


Caught the train back to North Shore Station, and then walked back to Seedy Abbey. Got back in time for the community dinner. Chilli con carne and baked potatoes.
Afterwards I went with Jono and Jo up to the You Yangs. Jono had to get some landscape pictures for uni, and he was hoping there'd be a nice sunset. Unfortunately it was pretty cloudy.

Passing the You Yangs

After work yesterday I caught the train down to Geelong with Brent, to have tea with the Norlane resis. Brent took these pictures on the train and wanted me to put them on my blog:

(The second and third one were while we were going past the You Yangs.)

Training week

This week we're taking a week off from running Credo, so that we can do some training and team-building stuff.
On Monday we went down to Sue's place at Ocean Grove, and in the afternoon we shared a bit about our faith journies. I started off the session by sharing a bit about two passages from the gospels, where Jesus says,

'Anyone who is not for me is really against me,'
(Matthew 12:22-30)

and,

'whoever is not against you is for you.'
(Luke 9:46-50)

I find it a bit confusing that Luke and Matthew put it different ways, but in both cases it seems like he's got a problem with people demonising people who aren't part of their group. (I think that's important to remember when we share about our experiences of different spiritual movements and ideas.)
In the afternoon some of us went to Norlane to visit the community dinner that the Seeds folk in Norlane have been running.
Took this from the van on the way home:

Today we were supposed to be doing overdose response training, but the person who was supposed to be running it had to pull out, so we'll be doing it some tiem in the next few weeks. Thursday and Friday we're doing mental health first aid.

Midweek weekend

I had yesterday and the first half of today off, because I didn't get Sunday and Monday off this week, due to Mission Exposure Week. So I went to Ballarat yesterday morning, and had a rest, and did a lot of writing.
In the evening I went down to Geelong. Trav has blogged about what happened there. We got back to Ballarat at about 1:30 this morning.
Caught the train back to Melbourne with one of my former classmates, Sophie, who was going to Melbourne for an English test. She had to do it as part of her application for Australian residency, and had to get at least 70%. The test alone cost over $500.