As some of you have seen already, I got the opportunity to work with a jackhammer. It really isn't too tough if you know how to hold a trigger. The hard part is lifting it. Those things are heavy! It has been quite the week in Oxford, but mainly Christchurch. Every year around Easter New Zealand has what they call "Easter Camp" in every major town (or not so major town). Christchurch has a big one with about 4,000 kids coming for a four day retreat. From what I can gather, there are concerts and speakers and booths. Some spend the night and others come for the day stuff and go home. So this week the maintenance crew helped install in huge tent. I felt like I was helping get ready for a circus.
We also are still digging people out of their homes. When the February 22nd earthquake demolished much of the city, the sewage systems either filled with silt or ruptured. Either way it smells like poo in most of the city, with porta-potties on every corner. Can you imagine using one of those everyday? They are worse than the so called "bathrooms" in Thailand, by far! One of the guys on the maintenance team got pink eye from shoveling silt that has mixed with the ruptured sewage systems. It is a mess here still.
I have also said, "farewell for now," to my friend Scott who is headed to Tauranga, which is on the North Island. He is doing an internship for two months with a non-profit called Christian Surfers. Yeah, he is a surfer from Michigan. Apparently they surf on Lake Michigan. Who knew?
Well, you all want and somehow enjoy my updates, so here is some more rambling for you. I shall end with another quote from Anne Lamott. Oh, and another book suggestion, "The Art of Non-Conformity," by Chris Guillebeau.
here's his website http://chrisguillebeau.com/
"I do not understand the mystery of grace -- only that it meets us where we are and does not leave us where it found us."
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