Jacquie...driving standard?!

Thanks to all of you who have commented or emailed me about my homesick blog. So you all know (and can breathe again) I'm feeling much better the past few days.

Lately I've been procrastinating from doing my book reports due for my correspondence class. Yes, that means not even reading the books. Bah. But I DID go for a walk through town yesterday to run a few errands and picked up a webcam on the way (so if you're on MSN you can see my face in New Zealand! w00t!).

I also went out to Karl's place for dinner (for those of you who haven't read this blog from the very beginning entries, Karl's the pastor of the Presbyterian or "Prezzy" church in town - he's my "boss"/mentor for this internship and for this job). He made a beautiful chicken satay stirfry(mmmm I looove satay!) and I sat with him, his wife Lynley and oldest son Michael for a good 3 hours afterwards, not realizing we had been talking that long...it was a really good night.

He told me about what he hopes to see in the youth ministry over the next year. We talked about the link between all the churches involved and how each is overseeing my job.

AND he told me that my car just had a few tests that have to be run on it before it becomes mine. BUT...yikes...it's standard! And for those of you who don't know this...I CAN'T DRIVE STANDARD! Yeah, so a wonderful little thing gets to happen - I not only get to learn how to drive on the wrong side of the CAR and on the wrong side of the ROAD...I get to learn how to drive standard...in a car that Lynley says is "a pain"...

This should be interesting...

So now I should be working on my email newsletter to be sending out to everyone so expect that soon! Time to work!

Ciao!