Friday and Saturday were just excellent this week. On Friday, we had a barbecue on the beach, and even though it was kind of cloudy, it was a lot of fun climbing all over the rocks and paying soccer in the sand. Some people brought swimsuits, though I was not one of them, and they were swimming in the ocean and hunted for crabs. I waded out the and joined them for a bit, and in the process drenched my jeans, not as much from the wading out there, more from jumping around in the waves trying to avoid crabs by my feet. After two burgers and a sausage, I was ready to go home so I hitched a ride from a staff member and went back home. I played some cards with people as they started to arrive, and it went from UNO, to Egygptian rat screw, to BS, to playing poker using cornflakes as poker chips. It was a pretty interesting game since people were betting all over because they were only cornflakes, and one guy kept breaking his in half and betting crumbs. I had an impressive pile of cornflakes at the end.
Saturday morning I was really excited because Tuesday I had to idea of making frenchtoast, since we have plenty of bread and we're allowed eggs on the weekend, so I had been looking forward to this breakfast all week. I even brought an apple from the boys house and cooked it in butter and cinnamon sugar. So good. Late morning, some staff members decided to take a group to Gideon (another suburb of Tauranga) to visit the Marine Reach YWAM that were stationed there. We don't have a whole lot of interaction with them normally, every now and then we'll see them on Friday, but they invited us to come and visit them, so we took them up on that. Their base was about 20 minutes away from ours, and was a lot more isolated than ours was, but shit they had a nice base. Their building is only a couple years old and as soon as we walked in the door there was a big, flat screen TV on the wall. If we want to watch movies we have to lug this little one up from the basement. Ridiculous. Their entire house was like a mansion. They had a classroom right in their building, a huge kitchen, leather couches, and dryers! We were really jealous that they had dryers.
This was only the start, they took us down a path to see their waterfall, and I was like okay, cute, they have a waterfall, but this thing was massive. Giant, roaring, awesome waterfall. The river was gorgeous too and they had all these paths you could take above the waterfall and down by the river. After sandwiches for lunch, we all hung out by the river. Some of our guys are really into slack lining, so they stretched a slack line across the river and were trying to cross it, but it was so windy that they kept falling in. It was funny to watch. I learned how to throw a rugby ball and me and some other people played catch. Eventually we headed back up to their house, and we started a soccer game, our DTS versus theirs, game to five. We killed them 5-1. We left their base around 3 to go back home. I decided even though they have a super awesome house and a waterfall and river at their disposal, I'm glad I'm on the DTS I'm on. We get out a lot more and can go to restaurants and shopping and stuff while their mostly stuck in that one area. Mostly I'm glad because our students and staff are way cooler than theirs. No competition (just like the soccer game).
Saturday night, there was a rugby game on, New Zealand All Blacks vs Argentina Pumas, so one of our neighbors who's a friend of YWAM invited us over to their house to watch, and we pooled our money and bought a bunch of fries to share. I kind of like rugby. I sort of get it now, and it's more fun to watch than football because the game doesn't stop every 5 seconds. New Zealand won by the way, 14-5. I think Saturdays are my new favorite day.
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