Ambergris

It's the first official day of winter here in New Zealand, June 1st. We've had a week of staff training so far and I've really learned that this is gonna be a whole new and more challenging, more growing experience than last year. We've talked about a lot of base stuff like YWAM Oxford history and YWAM values and base structure and it's been interesting. The tough stuff to talk about so far has been Staff fears/expectations and Self-care. A lot of talk about making sure you spend enough time to yourself and with God so you don't get overworked and bogged down and so that you have an enjoyable time staffing and so that it doesn't suck. I know it'll be a challenge but it's a challenge I'm looking forward to when the students get here in 3 weeks. We've had lots of down time so far to just chill but I know that'll be a different story when they get here.

This was a double rainbow I saw on my second day here. It's so beautiful!

That's right I painted a picture. A fun night's activity.

As for the title of this blog Ambergris is basically whale vomit. We were discussing at lunch one day that when whales hurl it like hardens up in the sea and kinda looks like a rock when it lands on shore. Kinda nasty but a 4 pound block would be worth like $20,000!! I guess they use it in perfume or something but it was one of those hilarious ongoing discussions about how we would get a hold of some Ambergris. We decided to capture a whale and feed it beak squids which bother the whales stomach so it throws up. We would never have to fundraise again!! Then we decided that would probably be animal cruelty... and we have nowhere to store a whale. Anyways it was a hilarious discussion!

Thanks for checking this out guys! more to come soon.

Brendan