The Drive-in

Apparently the cool thing to do here is go to the Drive-in. I had assumed that drive-in's were a thing of the 80's, and that were only remembered in old movies now, but there is a real live drive-in just down the road from us. So on Friday night we decided to go to the Drive-in. There are three seperate 'theatres' with different movies showing on each. You just parked in front of the screen you wanted to watch, tuned your radio into the right channel, and you were watching a movie. The coolest part was that they did two movies, one after the other. So if you paid to get into the movie, you got a second movie for free! So, the question I hear burning away in your minds is what did we see. Well, the first movie we saw was 'Cars', which was great! Pixar do some good movies! Then we saw 'RV' with Robin Williams. It was the free movie.

http://www.5drivein.com/

My Rugby Team

This is the rugby team I have been helping coach since I got here. They are all Grade Nine boys, and most of them are in their first year of playing rugby. That means they have the size of a NZ 15 year old, but the Skill of a NZ 12 year old and the Game Knowledge of a NZ 8 year old! The school has 4 teams: Senior Boys, Junior Boys, Midgets and Girls. Ours is the Midget team. They train after school four days a week and play after school on Friday. We won the final of our district competition 10-7

That took us to the Provincial champs, where we played 3 games on the Sunday, then returned on Monday for semi's and finals. We won two and lost one on Sunday, making us second qualifiers from our pool. On Monday we won our semi-final, before drawing the final 5-5.
Here's where it gets bizzare. Because it was a draw we had a kick-off where three players from each team kicked from the 22. one from the 15m line one side of the field, one from the 15m line the other side of the field and one from the centre. So, we lost the Provincial Championships 2-1 in a kick-off. We were gutted!

Corey, on the left, is the captain. He was running around dizzy for a bit in the final, and by the time we took him off he fell on the ground and started vomiting! Mac, on the right, is one of the locks.

Chris was named MVP in the final. He plays 7, but could really play anywhere.

Baseball!

When Ally's mum left school one friday she saw that the principal was giving away tickets to a Blue Jays game. She got the tickets and Kathryn, Travis, Allison and I went. Aside from the parking issues, it was good fun and we got to see the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Chicago White Sox.

Kathryn, Travis, Allison, Jamie

Rodgers Stadium, Toronto

The DaVinci Code

So, we saw the movie. No where as good as the book, although to capture the book well it probably have to be a 6 hour movie...and no one would want to see that! We did a series on The DaVinci Code at church around the release of he movie, but took quite a different angle to it. Instead of rubbishing Dan Brown and pulling out the facts and figures to prove him wrong, we asked the question of why this book has sold 50 million copies and why over 50 million people have suddenly become so interested in Jesus. We talked about how maybe these people have become disillusioned with the way that 'organised religion' has presented Jesus in the past, and they realise that there must be something more. When Dan Brown addresses questions such as the treatment of women in churches and the relevance of Jesus, he may be echoing the questions of millions of people who would love to know Jesus, but can't understand why people would want a relationship with the Jesus that organised religion so often presents. That provoked alot of discussion!!!
Wow...that was a very 'social commentary' entry! Hopefully they will not all be like that!

It's been a while...

So, this weekend is blog weekend! It's been a while since anything went up, but hopefully we can fix that this weekend.
The General update is that I am still studying Greek and have started working for the church. At th3e moment I am the web guy for the church as we are launching a new website on July 4th, so most of my time is on getting that up and running. Ally starts working at a summer day-camp called Giggles and Scribbles at the beginning of July until the end of August, and she has an interview on Monday for a teaching job starting in September.
So, that is the general stuff. I will put some more up on the blog soon!