Day 3: 1st Ministry day in Campus

Today is our first ministry day in campus… but before we could leave our apartment the ppl from NP are getting very anxious as there results are coming out… as they got this SMS system which will send the results to them via SMS, so they’ll receive the result at 0830hr SGT which is 1030hr here… SP doesn’t have this system so still have to ‘hunt’ for a computer to check for ours in the later part of the trip…

Unfortunately one of them did not do very well and had to repeat a module… we had to comfort her and this has affected some of us for the first part of the day… also the rest they were excited that they pass… so we also leave later than what we suppose to.. as such, we miss our bus that we planned to take, the 1050hr one, so we had to take the 1120hr one… actually the ministry time in campus is from 1100h to 1600h, so we’re late in the sense…

When we reached the campus, most of us are quite anxious as it’s our first time doing street evangelism in another country… Moreover, many of us have not done it for very long… luckily, we have survey forms to help us to start our initial conversation with the students… As our focus is on international students, we should try to approach them… They can be distinguished quite easily from the locals, from their hair can already… each of us will pair up with another person and try to stick together on campus… I’m partnered with Jack…

As this’s our first day and not very familiar with the campus yet, for most of the time we just stayed outside along the pave way leading to campus centre doing surveys with the students… but we did not get to share any 4SL as the students are all busy rushing for class but could not stop to listen… still got some contacts though.. and passed them the poster of our events next week… We pack bread from our apartment for our lunch… but that’s not really enough, so we go to the campus centre to buy fries to eat…

After ministry time, we went to The Glen shopping centre for our grocery shopping… we had to buy our things like bread and food for us to last through the entire week… as we walk around we keep adding things to our trolley and at the end of it, we had 2 big trolley full of things… some more the thing is that the trolley here is larger then those in Singapore.. also lar, some of the things there are not very cheap, although some things like fruits are cheaper than s’pore they’re produced in Australia… I think we bought about 110 items and cost more than A$300… each of us had to hug several bags of things back to our apartment… luckily it’s only a 10mins walk and the weather is cooling… actually quite cold as the sun has set already… it’s only 1830hr here…

We took for our dinner tonight… as we’ll be cooking dinner at home most of the time on weekdays, we had a duty roaster and each of us will take turns to cook and wash dishes… as this is our first time cooking for the team, I think somehow we under estimated the size of the dishes and each of us only had a small portion of each of the dishes… it’s like food rationing… haha.. most of us are still hungry after that and open up the biscuits that we’ve just bought…

As most of us are still very tired, we decided not to have our worship again, and just have a debriefing before going to rest… think it’s becos our body are still not adjusted to the weather here, even thought we had a good sleep last night… we also decided to postpone our Great Ocean Road tour to next Saturday so that we’ll have time to rest over the weekend and plan for next week 3 major events…