So I made it.

I've been staying in the sweetest house ever for the last few days. It's right on the bay... there's a little boat ramp in the back yard and a canoe... a couple of the guys here and I took the canoe out the other day and it was freaking fun. Except when it almost flipped over. No big deal, it was just kind of cold and windy and I was wearing jeans and a sweatshirt.

The people here are so nice. Last night Koro & Kate, a couple who help with worship, invited me over after practice to eat. I thought it was to join them for dinner. Nope... they'd eaten already... so Kate made a full meal for me. Just like that. It felt a little awkward, sitting and eating their food while they didn't eat... but it was super nice of them.

Last night was our first practice. It was a little stressful. I suppose that's to be expected though. These things take a little time.

Haven't jumped into youth group stuff yet, we'll get that figured out next week.

Explored Tauranga a bit today. Downtown is pretty rad. If it's nice tomorrow I'm going to go to the beach. Driving on the left side of the road is SO weird. It's also weird how polite kiwis are in person and then how big of jerks they are when driving.

Isn't it weird how the word weird breaks the i before e rule? Weird. Now the word weird sounds really weird to me because of how many times I've typed the word weird.

Haven't looked into another job yet, waiting until I get a little more settled in to the church thing. They've asked this guy Mike to be responsible for me in terms of places to stay and whatnot, he's a YWAMer, spent 3 years in Thailand. I like him. We're gonna go hunting soon. Anyways, his brother is a cabinetmaker, so there might be an option there.

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I found Starbucks. I'm not exactly a proponent of Starbucks but it's familiar. Not much else is, so that's a good thing.

I'm totally going to pick up an accent. I've already picked up on a bunch of expressions/words. I'm not trying to pick up the accent, but I will...

So. There's that..... there's that. It's time to pay the piper.