Social and stressful!

Hello again, it is now only 2 days until I start travelling to New Zealand and I am well excited. Although I managed to like forget my PIN number to my bank account but the less said about that the better. Over the past few days I have been doing 2 main things, organising going away and socialising.
I have had to do quite a lot of shopping because I need new clothes and some other stuff and one of the other things I needed was a new small suitcase (the whole terrorism thing is annoying) and I have never known anything to be so complicated: wheels or not, straps or not, hard or soft, handle or strap… the list was endless of things they had on them. But what was more the price of them in Jenners anyway was ridiculous!!! Tiny little bags that I am sure would only be good for like a lunch box were about £150, we promptly left after finding out the price range.
On the socialising front I have just been trying to see most people before I go so I can say proper good byes. I went to the pub quiz on Sunday but alas we lost because of a stupid movies round … who does know the 3 mad max films names? So for like the 6th week running I have not won, I am starting to think it’s something to do with me.
For now I think that’s all I have time for but hope that you’re all well.

God Bless
Andrew

A new Beginning...

Hello one and all, this is the first Blog to my new Blog page and it is the beginning of a brand new adventure to New Zealand. In actual fact I am not there yet but this is the warm up Blog to let you all know how this is going to work. Whenever I get the chance or after something super cool has happened I will write to this Blog and tell of the excitingness that has happened. Please feel free to leave comments and questions about what I am doing because it will be easier if I tell everyone what I am doing not just sending lots of emails saying the same things.
For the moment I will tell you guys what I will be doing when I get to New Zealand (NZ for short) - I will be working with Scripture Union in Hamilton, which is just below Auckland in the picture, on the north island. I think it is the 4th biggest city in NZ and it sounds like I will fit right in there. I will be staying with a family for the year and working in many different areas. I will do work in different schools during the week with SU groups in the schools, helping and supporting the time they have. I will also be helping with the youth group at a church and when the schools are off there are SU camps running that I will be involved in. My week is pretty much set out for me because each school obviously has a time already set for their SU group to run and the church has youth event times sorted out too. One of the things I am most excited about my time in NZ is collaborating a music book for SU to use so that it is easier for them to get songs sorted out for the camps and such events (so any suggestions would be welcomed).
But for now I think that is really all I have to tell you guys. I travel to London on Thursday the 17th of august, which is like in 5 days, and then leave for New Zealand on the 18th.

God Bless
Andrew