I'm sitting here on my bed in the WEC headquarters in Hamilton; my stuff strewn everywhere. Here's some interesting things that have happened in the past 2 days:
- In the airport I met a friend from steinbach who was travelling to Ontario to visit his sick parents. Minutes later i met another man on the plane who was also travelling to see his dying father. He was "going for the funeral" even though his father hadn't died yet. He allowed me to pray with him after our flight arrived in Hamilton. Quite sad.
- Hamilton has a pretty lousy airport.
- I met the most enthusiastic video-gamer I have ever seen in my life. We went for a stroll downtown and walked past the video game store and someone from inside came onto the sidewalk yelling, "Come on in, don't you like video games?" We walked into a different world. The 20-something brought us past 2 groups of button-mashers and into this red-flourescent dungeon filled with special video-gaming thrones facing the wall. An LCD monitor was mounted in front of each chair (probably 15 or 20 chairs). They use this area for massive 8 on 8 games of networked HALO 3 matches. It's incredible. This person was seriously passionate about gaming. He told us about tournaments that you could watch on TV at home and about teams who were professional that would go to tournaments and win $20 000. He was passionate about making a place where gamers could interact with one another and where everyone was accepted no matter what. I commented that "gamers must love the atmosphere in here" and he agreed. He said that they were all nerds and not ashamed of it. When we were leaving he told us that they're vision was not just for hamilton. They wanted to make Canada into a gaming hub, recognized internationally. I admired his passion and commitment that sprung from his obvious love of gaming. He loved to talk about it.
Are we that enamored with Christ?
- I've had some cool conversations with some of the MK's around here
- I'm reading "the Cross and the Switchblade". I like it.
- I'm looking forward to talking "missions" with the staff here at the base. They all have significant experience somewhere in the world. Hopefully we'll talk more this week.
- Today i spent a number of hours sanding windows to prepare them for painting. Each day we will be put to work in the afternoon doing some sort of renovations around the house. Good preparation for EG.
- This morning i snoozed my alarm about 10 times (ya, just like the man-hole). Justin wasn't impressed. Won't be doing that again.
- There are 2 others taking orientation here in hamilton with us. One is going to Morocco to work in a clinic taking care of kids with Cerebral Palsy and the other is going to a pretty remote area in Guinea Bassau (he isn't sure what it's all going to involve). He's tall (like 6'5) and has a firey red beard. I think he'll have trouble blending.
So things are going well. We leave for EG on Saturday (aug. 30). They have some more things here for us to bring along for the greniers so we'll be pretty loaded down. It's so nice to be finally on our way. It sometimes doesn't quite feel real but I'll just try to enjoy the moment as best I can.
- In the airport I met a friend from steinbach who was travelling to Ontario to visit his sick parents. Minutes later i met another man on the plane who was also travelling to see his dying father. He was "going for the funeral" even though his father hadn't died yet. He allowed me to pray with him after our flight arrived in Hamilton. Quite sad.
- Hamilton has a pretty lousy airport.
- I met the most enthusiastic video-gamer I have ever seen in my life. We went for a stroll downtown and walked past the video game store and someone from inside came onto the sidewalk yelling, "Come on in, don't you like video games?" We walked into a different world. The 20-something brought us past 2 groups of button-mashers and into this red-flourescent dungeon filled with special video-gaming thrones facing the wall. An LCD monitor was mounted in front of each chair (probably 15 or 20 chairs). They use this area for massive 8 on 8 games of networked HALO 3 matches. It's incredible. This person was seriously passionate about gaming. He told us about tournaments that you could watch on TV at home and about teams who were professional that would go to tournaments and win $20 000. He was passionate about making a place where gamers could interact with one another and where everyone was accepted no matter what. I commented that "gamers must love the atmosphere in here" and he agreed. He said that they were all nerds and not ashamed of it. When we were leaving he told us that they're vision was not just for hamilton. They wanted to make Canada into a gaming hub, recognized internationally. I admired his passion and commitment that sprung from his obvious love of gaming. He loved to talk about it.
Are we that enamored with Christ?
- I've had some cool conversations with some of the MK's around here
- I'm reading "the Cross and the Switchblade". I like it.
- I'm looking forward to talking "missions" with the staff here at the base. They all have significant experience somewhere in the world. Hopefully we'll talk more this week.
- Today i spent a number of hours sanding windows to prepare them for painting. Each day we will be put to work in the afternoon doing some sort of renovations around the house. Good preparation for EG.
- This morning i snoozed my alarm about 10 times (ya, just like the man-hole). Justin wasn't impressed. Won't be doing that again.
- There are 2 others taking orientation here in hamilton with us. One is going to Morocco to work in a clinic taking care of kids with Cerebral Palsy and the other is going to a pretty remote area in Guinea Bassau (he isn't sure what it's all going to involve). He's tall (like 6'5) and has a firey red beard. I think he'll have trouble blending.
So things are going well. We leave for EG on Saturday (aug. 30). They have some more things here for us to bring along for the greniers so we'll be pretty loaded down. It's so nice to be finally on our way. It sometimes doesn't quite feel real but I'll just try to enjoy the moment as best I can.
3 comments:
hey bro, great post, looking forward to following your adventures, don't forget to post some photo's. Mom found your post first and it caused her to run up the stairs excitedly telling us all to check the blog, immediately you had several computers signing in to read your latest word...
oh how wonderful for you to be at the WEC hamilton base! i've had many amazing experiences there as well!! What is your address in EG? i'd like to send you our wedding invitation!
with much care, jess
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