Unite! Youth Rally 2008 NZ
Featuring Reggie Dabbs

Last friday was totally rad. My church was hosting this years Unite! Youth Rally and it featured the awesum speaker from the US of A , Mr Reggie Dabbs. I haven't heard him speak live but everyone else who had heard him before were raving on and on about him.Reggie was one helluva livewire that night. He was really good on his saxophone playing Alicia Keys' If I got you and Hallelujah.
So anyway, the turn out for the rally was really good because the whole Aurora centre was booked out. Reggie is a great evangelical preacher who goes about schools in America and the world to talk to young people about our saviour, Jesus Christ. My life story, a Christian local rock band played that night as well and all of us from elevate had fun in the mosh pitt. It was great to see many people having fun and knowing about Jesus in such an environment.Youths all the way from Timaru, Ashburton and lots of places you haven't about came all the way just to listen to him. Lots of people have this stereotypical view of Christians and churches and so with an outreach event such as this one, many had a changed perspective of what Christians and churches were.

Bellow is the video that Gerald took of Reggie .Watch it!



My life story

Trip to Christchurch Women's Hospital
Otago School of medicine
The school organized a trip to Christchurch Women's Hospital for students who are interested in going into the field of health science. It was a great experience taking a look at the hospital environment and getting information about what health care professionals actually do. It ranged from physiotherapist, mental health nurses, surgeons, radiologists and so on. And sad to say the life a doctor ain't like Grey's anatomy. Dream on! Ha Ha.
Xinny, tabs and I chose to go on the maternity ward tour because based on insider info, we were going to see lots of babies. But to our disappointment, we didn't get to see any of them. Notta. ziltch. Should have gone to the research centre tour instead. Oh well.

Anyway, my confidence in choosing health sciences (medicine) surged after the trip because of the 6th year medicine student I talked to. He was dressed in scrubs. VERY Grey's anatomy-esque. Turned out he was from Burnside as well! Awesumness! And from one Burnsider to another, he told me hints on getting to the right residential hall in Otago, how he succeeded and a whole lot of stuff. Apparently most Burnside students get accepted to St.Margarets Hall for some strange reason, much to the dismay of the St.Andrew boys behind me. They felt that people were biased to Burnside students or something. SWEET! Too bad boys. Ha ha.

Students from around the region came for the talk.

Bad picture of the "scrubs guy"

Starbuck's tumbler I got. Useful for cold winter mornings.

Finger lickin' crepes

i know you want some.
they are real easy to make and are really delicious
with a drizzle of maple syrup. yum-o!

Hedgehog sighting
Amidst the crisp fallen autumn leaves ,we found a cute hedgehog foraging for food.
They are pretty common in these parts. They tend to make an appearance once a year in everybody's garden.
Though winter is approaching, nature never fails to present us with its beauty. Romancing the rose.

To go or not to go?Otago university or Canterbury? Arts or science? Decisions. Decisions.
Otago offers health science in which I can pursue medicine. Its also the number 1 students destination for a grand ol' time away from home. The liaison' officer came the other day and I'm really attracted to the student life that Otago offers. SCARFIE DAYS!
OR I could go to the university of Canterbury and do law and psychology AND not leave Christchurch.
Send me a sign. I need some direction.