By
helen on May 31st, 2004
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Australie, 28 mai
De jeunes rappeurs avant la répétition de leur spectacle à l’Opéra de Sydney
Just been reading Le Monde, the French news.
It seems to be so much more connected to the rest of the world. Stories from lots of different countires. Not everything’s about America.
They’re also not afraid of vulgar contemporaroy art.
Its always strange to find Sydney in the midst of it all. The above is one of the ‘headlines of the week in images’.
Got an email this morning form Nicola and she told me about Connect groups that CCC are starting in Paris.
I feel like I wanted keep myself somehow connected to France. Not sure how though.
By
helen on May 29th, 2004
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I’ve decided to try a new look. It feels a bit strange. But refreshing.
By
helen on May 29th, 2004
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Well here I am at my house with Rach, Hannah, Mel, Gemma, Pip, Pip, Steph, Beth (and Casey and Rach who already left) part way through our girly small group sleep over. How much fun are we having. I’m particularly excited about the fact that I managed to get our fire going for the last couple of hours. First time this winter. I’m so onto it. Call me miss practicality. Nothing like an open fire to set the atmosphere. We toasted marshmallows and we played Tom’s ’say something you’ve never told anyone’ game and then somehow moved through different topics to my first boyfriend and a description fo my first kiss in french translated comically by Rach. All good fun. Go the girlie talks. I feel like I’m 15 again and loving it.
Earlier we watched Finding Nemo. It makes me smile. And we read the story book together which we all read along to and played the guess the shape competition with the school of fish. AND we made fairy bread in the shape of fish and seaweed and whales and star fish. And ate smiley potatoes. 
Oo and Pip and Gemma made cookies and we ate them warm MMmmmmmm.
And Rach and I had fun shopping. We went up and down every aisle of the supermarket and bought lots of random things. We found Finding Nemo choc chip meusli bars and Wiggles Alphabet biscuits. Oh yeah.
Mel found out earlier that I’ve been sick and offered to pray for me. Her prayer made me laugh. It was great. She prayed about the battle going on inside of me between good bacteria and bad bacteria. I love Mel. And since laughter’s suppose to be the best medicine, then combined with prayer has got to be a good concoction.
And on a side note, the highlight if my day yesterday was Phil & Guin coming to visit for dinner. I love Phil and Guin. They helped me make sense of stuff. And i got excited telling them about people getting into the Bible.
By
helen on May 27th, 2004
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Ok so I’m still here. Just tried to get up but discovered my chest isn’t cooperating so the lounge is default position.
Ok so last night’s experience was a little too deja vu, as the last time I had severe asthma like that was last time we were starting rehearsals for the Breakthru’ Project for the first EBN and this was starting rehearsals for the next EBN.
So there are some people in my life that would say that that was spiritual warfare, becacuse I’m called to be a dancer and connect with youth and this is part of fulfilling that and Satan doesn’t like it so he tries to stop me from doing it by making me sick. And I’ve never really worked out exactly what I think about that.
Well, thoughts of late make me think that perhaps that isn’t true, if the only power Satan has in my life is in the area of temptation. If so, then the deja vu experience is just a coincidence and sickness is just a result of living in a fallen world and so its only spiritual in a general sense rather than a specific sense. And if that’s the case then my battle lies purely in the area of not allowing my frustration with being sick to lead me to sin (which is a challenge because i want to get grumpy and frustrated and stop being nice to myself). This then fits with the concept of trials being things through which we develop character and perseverance. So within that paradigm, do I ask for healing, or just take it as it comes??
James 1:2-4 Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything
By
helen on May 27th, 2004
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After all that I did forget Sorry Day.
I’m sorry.
By
helen on May 27th, 2004
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Dave just sent me some old Red Carpet photos of us with Jill. I’m gonna miss Jill. 
It really hit me on Sat night when we were dancing together and smashing plates. Lots of memories.
By
helen on May 27th, 2004
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Ok so yesterday started out slightly better than the 2 days before it. I enjoyed being at work. I enjoyed Scripture. Kids are great. Luke came with me and got interviewed and ran a game. They all thought he was great. He was like a super star. Pretty funny. But so good for little boys to see an guy strongly following Jesus. He did good.
believe it or not I enjoyed tom’ s chunder (mandarins, marshmallow and sour cream) which i must admit was possibly better the second day even though it had a slight yellow tinge. It’d just be the mandarin juice right??
anyway, had coffee with Pip & then taught. HAd a few peopel come to the young adult class which was good. Trouble is i started to have trouble breathing part way through and by the end of it realised my ventolin really wasn’t working. Started a rehearsal for our new Breakthru’ Project dance and got excited as it started to come together, started to get some new fresh creative ideas, but was aware my breathing was just getting worse and worse. SO finally i decided to be sensible, left the girls to it, went home and jumped on the nebuliser and started to breathe again. Phew. Quite shaken though. Went to bed before 1030…that hasn’t happend in a while. Woke up at 5 and had to jump on the nebuliser again. Was breahting again. Goodo. Went back to sleep. And here I am rugged up in recovery mode, with chest pains, headache and shakiness from too much ventolin.
How good is music and the internet on a day like today??
So there’s a whole lot of theorising, philosophising, theologising going round in my head which may come out in another post, since this post is already too long, so I might as well separate them really.
I doubt I’ll manage to leave the house today. Was going to go watch SCA dancers do their 3rd year projects, but its not gonna happen oh well.
By
helen on May 27th, 2004
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I use to remove olives from supreme pizza, but last night I ate 2 pieces with olive and it didn’t phase me at all. Maybe my taste buds are maturing with age. Fascinating.
By
helen on May 26th, 2004
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Romans 8:1Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, 2because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death.
By
helen on May 25th, 2004
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makes me go grrr
Denied access to its most valuable economic asset, the multi-billion-dollar oil and gas deposits under the Timor Sea, East Timor, one of the world’s poorest countries, would depend on foreign aid permanently
…East Timor argues that for every dollar of aid it receives from Australia, Canberra collects $10 in oil and gas revenues that are rightfully East Timor’s
…Australia collects $1 million a day in oil and gas revenues that rightfully belong to East Timor
… Australia refuses to submit the dispute to international mediation.
SMH May 25
Ok so we have an opportunity to give one of the world’s poorest countries their true independance and what do we do????
This isn’t just the wider western world in their general disregard for the poor, this is Australia, my country, directly outrightly administering injustice when they could act generously and see siginifcant change in a struggling nation.
What is wrong with this world?
grrr.