A Cool Summer

We're thankful for a cool summer this year, with rain every 1-2 weeks. Nice sunshine with light breeze on some days.

We're back to our usual college routine. Roger's into his 3rd week of term. I've made a few new friends at college (Fancy meeting a Japanese at an Australian bible college!) and Charis has been enjoying the simple joys of running around and imaginary play. We still go to college for dinner on Thursday evenings even though Roger doesn't have night lectures anymore. We feel that it's a good way to get to know the residential students, and also some of the part-time students. A church cell group has also started meeting at our place. We are currently studying the book of Galatians.

On top of the usual stuff, there were pretty interesting things that happened in the last month. We went to watch a basketball match between the Sydney Kings and the Singapore Slingers! One of Roger's college mates organised this outing, and about 25 of them turned up! I enjoyed the atmosphere. Although I felt weird cheering on a team that hardly looked Singaporean. Charis was clutching on to me for the first 2 quarters of the game, not knowing what to make out of all the loud cheering and clapping. She warmed up to the atmosphere later, but she was more interested in interacting with the kids seated behind us rather than the game. Roger was annoyed with the Slingers poor team work, playing as individuals rather than for a team. I had to sit through various Rogerian commentaries on how the Slingers should have spotted a certain tactic used frequently by the opponent, or how the Slingers were just passing the ball to each other outside the semi-circle (opps, Roger corrected me, the semi-circle is called the '3-point line') without 'off ball running' (huh?) and how so-and-so is not a good shooter...blah blah blah... you get the picture... Well, at then end of it, Derek, (one of Roger's classmate) summed it quite aptly 'I hoped to comfort you by saying that it was a close match, but it was not.'

Something else that I found blogworthy was what the single guys at SMBC did on Valentine's Day. The residential single guys actually made breakfast for the residential single gals! The guys left invitation notes in the gals pigeon holes the nite before, inviting them for breakfast at the dining hall. When morning came, the guys, all dressed in suits (!), served the gals breakfast. So sweet! =) And to express their thanks, the gals sang them a song during dinner. =)

There are many things lined up for us in the coming weeks. Roger's preaching a sermon in church, I'll be at children's church every week for the next 3 weeks, helping and teaching, and giving a children's talk in mid March. SMBC's biennial missions conference is also beckoning. All full-time students will be slated to attend the conference. We are thankful for the many things we are learning here and we pray that we may grow to be godly people.

Sorry no pictures to post here, will be more diligent in taking photos! =)