I have nothing noteworthy to pass on to you I'm afraid, so all the news for this time around will be in brief...
-Cricket season has started and we won our first game by 1 run, quite a nail biter in the field that one.
-Exam term has arrived and all of Cambridge has fallen into a comma of study. I'm soon to be joining them. (please don't be upset if I stop replying to emails)
-Some friendly frisbee action on Jesus' green
-Last weekend I was out painting a house on the outskirts of cambridge for a social action project which was really great fun. The lady was really appreciative, and her room is now pink. I was the lucky person charged with painting the roof, but I think I ate most of the paint as it flicked off the roof from the roller into my mouth.
-Now I am officially JCR Treasurer, people keep asking me for money, and the novelty of tearing off a cheque for somebody else's money is yet to wear off.
-Kate-o, Mikey and Chel visited and I had the pleasure of squiring them around town with the Taines. We had a great picnic on castle mound overlooking the city. I'm sure Kate has shown everyone the photos already, but here are some great pics courtesy of Kate herself!
-I have begun leading the 11-14 year old bible study at church, which I am super amped about. The kids are so cool, and some are really smart. But afterwards if you asked them what they did, they always say, "We ate lollies and played games." They get lots out of it clearly.
-There was an amazing concert of J.S.Bach's, St. John's Passion in the Corpus Chapel. They had professional singers come in from London and a baroque orchestra from Germany. It was spectacular, as you can see in the photo.
-I travelled to London for two days to see Alice. She misses everyone but is having a great time. I also got a tour around Cancerbackup, more of a networking type thing for my future, but a great prospect and insight into the world of cancer, charity and research. I guess that was kind of a major actually. I got the contact through somebody I met at the NZ Society Reception after Waitangi Day in London and they were very pleased to have me through which was nice.
-The cartoon character's 'slack' in the college bar. Good craic! Oh, they are smurf's, and where's wally?
-Adam, the guy I went to Northern Ireland with, is officially engaged to his girlfriend of 3 years. Kind of exciting, but also quite soon. However they will be engaged at least for another 2 years as college rules don't permit undergraduates to marry. Let's all take a moment though to be happy for him....
That, along with lectures and shed fulls of work is everything happening with me. It will be for the next 5 weeks I imagine...but it won't be long and after that will be 'May week' with all the balls and garden parties, so I'm just keeping my eye on the exams until the celebrations draw near.
I pray you are all well back home, and overseas. 'Til we next meet again,
Blake
P.S. Sorry about the lack of pictures, there just isn't many picture taking moments right now. And the suggestion for the title of the blog was not my own. Apparently there was a tv programme called 'Blake 7' back in the 70's that was quite big over here. I'll change it at some point.
