Root beer, marshmellows, speed boats and canoes.

We have had quite an intense but exciting week this week. Starting from monday to wednesday we had training for the interns and street leaders. It was really ace to get to know everyone and to become more familiar with what the camp was going to be like. We're both really excited about how we are going to be used and challenged in the next 3 weeks and to meet all the children we will be working with. So after our intense training and reading policy after policy we went on a retreat for 2days to a place called 'Sunshine coast'...It was aaaaaaaaaaaamazing!! The house was like the size of buckingham palace with a lake and amazing views. We speed boated, canoed, kayaked, swam in a private pool and chilled in the hot tub...maaaaaaan it was so cool! We did a servant profile while we were there to look at our spiritual gifting...we were both really surprised with what came up for us. We also did cross cultural training and intentional community living training. This was interesting to look at what each intern in the house had to offer and what our strengths and weaknesses are. Jo took a walk up a mountain with other interns which had signs with scriptures on. We shared rooms with different interns to get to know new people and to build up new friendships. Some of the team roasted marshmellows by the camp fire and watched the stars. We felt really blessed to be in such a beautiful place and to be around such ace people. It has ben 33 degrees for the past few days which cheska has absoloutly loved...we chilled at a place called trout like on saturday where cheska got a little burn't and we watched a film called 'juno' on saturday night which was interesting. Sunday we went to the churches we will be based at while we are on camp which was good. Cheska's church is a christian reformed church so its very traditional with hymns (very different to living hope) and jo is going to different churches as she is floating around different camps while we are here. We are going for BBQ this afternoon (sunday) At one of the team leaders house which will be great. Everythings going really well and we are both going to be real sad to leave.