New Adventures 12th - 19th

Friday

Friday evening I went through to a new friend of mine's 21st which was being held at a cricket club down the road from my house. I got there and found out that the alcohol was free, so bloody bargain.

We sat outside greeting people for a while before getting a few drinks and listening to some good old power metal. Nothing super special happened in the evening, other than drinking a fair amount, eating some fantastic spring rolls and headbanging to Lamb of God.

Charlie is a wonderful man, and so is his family [inside joke, sorry] so to celebrate his birthday with him was great fun. We heard some good stories and Donovan and Alex actually stopped mocking him for an evening which was a welcome change for us all actually.

So, Charlie you are a fantastic friend and a truly generous man. Have a good 'un.


Saturday

Saturday was a fairly normal day, until lunch time. Liverpool played Manchester United at Old Trafford, and I got much more than I expected. I think everyone did actually. I was expecting quite a tight game, but it wasn't really, with Liverpool raping United 4-1. After that, Chelsea's standing in the Premier League looked really good, so I was immediately happy about the result.

From there Justin, Candice, Gareth and I went through to another get together at a bar in Edward's street for another friend's 21st. To be honest I actually don't really know the guy at all, but I've met him at a few parties and spoken to him a few times on Facebook so he wasn't a complete stranger.

The evening was rather strange but in the end it was ok. After a weird start it ended up being fairly chilled which was cool I guess.


Sunday

On Sunday I watched BSG and then went through to Justin's house to watch Chelsea play Manchester City. The game wasn't particularly good because while Chelsea dominated the entire 90 minutes, they didn't score a lot of goals. In fact, it looked as if Manchester City just weren't trying or something although I suspect they were.

After the game we headed through to church where the pastor spoke on Col 1:9 - 20. It wasn't anything theologically challenging, but it was the gospel and I enjoyed that immensely.

After church, Johann joined Justin, Pierre, Gareth, Matt and I at Val's house for some coffee and biscuits. The biscuits didn't turn out as Val had hoped but they were great anyway, and we had some interesting chats. Always fun.


Monday

Monday was quite a lazy day, but we had decided to go through to Mercury in the evening. I don't know how it happened but Pierre, Justin and I ended up going without anyone else, which turned out to be a bit of a bad decision.

We got there and noticed that a car parked behind mine had its window smashed. First sign of trouble. After talking to a disinterested car guard I resolved to move my car immediately and continued with the evening.

The three of us walked in, hoping for a good metal song to get us going. The truth is that every week we go to Mercury we sort of dance, sort of mock people while we wait for a hard rock / metal song. When the heavier song comes along we headbang violently and usually draw a fair amount of attention before returning to sort of standing around. It's good fun, but for some reason they just weren't playing any good rock or much good music for that matter.

We were a bit despondent but decided to make a night of it so we stuck it out. We were semi dancing when two girls ended up dancing next to us and sort of made a move to join us which we semi-reluctantly accepted. One of the girls started talking to Pierre, asking him his name. Now, I'm sure you all know that clubs are pretty loud, and in order to hear each other talking you have to lean toward each other and pretty much shout over the music.

Pierre being a seasoned clubber, leaned in to tell the girl his name and as he did this the girl in question did the same. Their heads met with a firm bang sound, followed by Pierre apologising profusely and this girl looking as if she may cry. Pierre looked at me and I just shouted "FFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU"

We had a good lol, not expecting to see the girls again. One of them left, and the other went to say goodbye and the evening continued. Shortly thereafter they headbutted girl returned and continued to dance with us.

Then she asked Pierre if we come here often because we don't fit in. At least she's forward.

A little later some heavier songs were played and we went mental, and ended up headbanging with this other random guy who was pretty cool, and he had who seemed to be his sister and two girls with him. After some good System of a Down and The Narrow we did some normal 'semi dancing semi mocking' moves and continued to sing along to some of the more ridiculous songs they play.

The headbutted girl, named Anika, hovered around us the entire night before eventually saying goodbye. She did eventually leave, but not before requesting Pierre's phone number. Pierre panicked and gave her a fake number. Such a lol.

At about 02h00 we left and decided we would never go back without a girl. It was just weird being three guys...


Tuesday

Battlestar Gallactica. That's it.


Wednesday

Wednesdays are our day for going to a pub in Durbanville named the Oxford Arms, but this week we had arranged to go to Johann's Bible study beforehand, and it was pretty cool. We broke up into groups of 12 - 15 people and then read different passages of scripture before studying them and discussing how we interpret them and could apply the newly gained knowledge to our lives.

Pierre and I ended up in a group of people who are currently working through Romans, and we read Romans 3: 21-26. The passage was fairly straight forward, with a bit of a twist in the end. I have my ideas on what it means, but I think it will require some study to entirely understand how versus 25 and 25 fit into the Old Testament, Salvation and Jesus' life.

Our group was very quiet and they didn't seem to grasp a lot of what was said, but perhaps they weren't saying anything because there were new people in the group. I don't know. Pierre and I did however enjoy the time and will be returning, probably every week. The people are really nice, and they are actually interested in the intricacies of scripture which truly is a rare trait.