What has been going down
Alright, a run down of what I've been up to and the events that led to a total burn out.
I went on this 4 day camp to Moore River to plan for Murdoch Christians United (MCU) because I'm on the committee. We achieved all we wanted to and I returned Friday day. Parents were at my house till Monday morning, which was nice, but meant I couldn't really relax properly. I had a list of jobs to do from the committee meetings and I had Monday and Tuesday to do them. Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday were dedicated to MCU. We wanted a presence in Murdoch Village and various overseas students would have started arriving then. So we ran two BBQs and a games evening.
On Monday, the Murdoch Orientation week started. MCU has a stall throughout the week in order for 1st year Christians to sign up to our weekly emails, Bible studies and social events if they'd like. I'm the stall-girl for this year and by default, I was kinda the o-week stall-girl too. On Tuesday afternoon and all day Wednesday, I gave my job of setting up and packing down to Ben and went to Kickstart, a camp that runs for all first year Christians from all the Perth Universities. Friday of that week was Festival Day which is the busiest of the week. All the clubs have stalls out, there's free food, handouts, typically mad-packness. Friday evening I was rather tired from the big week trying to squeeze in o-week and Kickstart.
Saturday I really wanted to chill out and relax, but I'd agreed to prepare dinner for the MCU Launch Party that night. So I bought a stack of veggies and 5kg of lamb mince to make lamb kofta. I also had to do follow up on all the sign ups we'd had through out the week. Josh, Cathy and Ben came over at 4:30-5pm to help me with the salads that needed preparing. At 6ish, we took all the food to Steve's and proceeded to mingle and meet new students. It was a pretty good night and many people came to check out MCU and have a good time.
When I came home afterwards, I needed to clean the kitchen up because we'd left it looking like a bomb had hit it. I decided that I really needed to get out of Perth and away from responsibility. However, when I woke up on Sunday morning, that was the last thing on my mind. I was so exhausted from the Village stuff, the o-week stuff and all the work required on Saturday for the food. I slept sporadically throughout the day, but that meant I couldn't get to sleep until 4am. I had no energy at all, not even to watch TV or read a book, so there was nothing to distract me from being depressed. That was no fun. I was all anxious and feeling sorry for myself and trying to sleep - but couldn't. I couldn't wait for the day to be over, but it kept on going.
Yesterday was very lazy. Ben came over because we were leading the MCU Launch Service that evening. All that really involved doing was planning the programme and delegating jobs. Josh came over to hang out with me and that was SO nice after the craptastic day yesterday. It really lifted my spirits. Then we went to the Launch Service and afterwards, I took Boyfriend to Mystery Date! I bought the tickets a fortnight ago and told him to keep the night free. It was pretty cool all the lead up to it (which wasn't much except me asking Josh if he was excited lol). It was a Monty Python double feature at the Burswood park cinema. I didn't expect it to be so cold, but we got through The Holy Grail just fine. Half way through Life of Brian I was suddenly very tired, so Josh said we could leave and I'm glad we did, because I nodded off very quickly once home.
Today was my first day back at uni. I'm looking forward to the year ahead, and boy am I ever glad to have the busiest part of the semester behind me! I'm so thankful to God for blessing the work of our hands. Many first years came along to the Launch Party and Service and seem really interested in sticking around for Bible studies - which is super encouraging! But it was hard work and I'm glad it'll be smoother now that we're up and running.
Josh has been such a help during this time. Volunteering much of his time to helping prepare food for MCU stuff and giving me a shoulder to rest my head on when I'm weary. God has blessed me with Josh!
I went on this 4 day camp to Moore River to plan for Murdoch Christians United (MCU) because I'm on the committee. We achieved all we wanted to and I returned Friday day. Parents were at my house till Monday morning, which was nice, but meant I couldn't really relax properly. I had a list of jobs to do from the committee meetings and I had Monday and Tuesday to do them. Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday were dedicated to MCU. We wanted a presence in Murdoch Village and various overseas students would have started arriving then. So we ran two BBQs and a games evening.
On Monday, the Murdoch Orientation week started. MCU has a stall throughout the week in order for 1st year Christians to sign up to our weekly emails, Bible studies and social events if they'd like. I'm the stall-girl for this year and by default, I was kinda the o-week stall-girl too. On Tuesday afternoon and all day Wednesday, I gave my job of setting up and packing down to Ben and went to Kickstart, a camp that runs for all first year Christians from all the Perth Universities. Friday of that week was Festival Day which is the busiest of the week. All the clubs have stalls out, there's free food, handouts, typically mad-packness. Friday evening I was rather tired from the big week trying to squeeze in o-week and Kickstart.
Saturday I really wanted to chill out and relax, but I'd agreed to prepare dinner for the MCU Launch Party that night. So I bought a stack of veggies and 5kg of lamb mince to make lamb kofta. I also had to do follow up on all the sign ups we'd had through out the week. Josh, Cathy and Ben came over at 4:30-5pm to help me with the salads that needed preparing. At 6ish, we took all the food to Steve's and proceeded to mingle and meet new students. It was a pretty good night and many people came to check out MCU and have a good time.
When I came home afterwards, I needed to clean the kitchen up because we'd left it looking like a bomb had hit it. I decided that I really needed to get out of Perth and away from responsibility. However, when I woke up on Sunday morning, that was the last thing on my mind. I was so exhausted from the Village stuff, the o-week stuff and all the work required on Saturday for the food. I slept sporadically throughout the day, but that meant I couldn't get to sleep until 4am. I had no energy at all, not even to watch TV or read a book, so there was nothing to distract me from being depressed. That was no fun. I was all anxious and feeling sorry for myself and trying to sleep - but couldn't. I couldn't wait for the day to be over, but it kept on going.
Yesterday was very lazy. Ben came over because we were leading the MCU Launch Service that evening. All that really involved doing was planning the programme and delegating jobs. Josh came over to hang out with me and that was SO nice after the craptastic day yesterday. It really lifted my spirits. Then we went to the Launch Service and afterwards, I took Boyfriend to Mystery Date! I bought the tickets a fortnight ago and told him to keep the night free. It was pretty cool all the lead up to it (which wasn't much except me asking Josh if he was excited lol). It was a Monty Python double feature at the Burswood park cinema. I didn't expect it to be so cold, but we got through The Holy Grail just fine. Half way through Life of Brian I was suddenly very tired, so Josh said we could leave and I'm glad we did, because I nodded off very quickly once home.
Today was my first day back at uni. I'm looking forward to the year ahead, and boy am I ever glad to have the busiest part of the semester behind me! I'm so thankful to God for blessing the work of our hands. Many first years came along to the Launch Party and Service and seem really interested in sticking around for Bible studies - which is super encouraging! But it was hard work and I'm glad it'll be smoother now that we're up and running.
Josh has been such a help during this time. Volunteering much of his time to helping prepare food for MCU stuff and giving me a shoulder to rest my head on when I'm weary. God has blessed me with Josh!