The Recent Goings On...

Hey party peoples! It is time for the latest installment of (drumroll please).....

"Weekend Adventures of Josh and Emily in Christchurch and Surrounding Areas!" heretofore referred to as "WAJECSA" We're still working on the name.

This week on WAJECSA:

Emily and I had the opportunity to attend a recent rugby contest: New Zealand v. Great Britain. It took about half of the match to realize exactly what was going on, but we (Josh) finally got the hang of it. To sum it up, it is baiscally 'smear the queer' with uniforms (pardon the politically incorrectness). Guys would just run with what looked like an obese football and when the guys from the other team got close, they would toss it back, lateral style, to their teammate. That's pretty much it. Sometimes, the guy with the ball would get nervous and not know whether or not to toss the ball, so he would just run into the arms of the other team, who would promptly slam him ruthlessly into the ground. Here's a picture, witness the mayhem:

We went to church last week. Grace Vineyard Church of Christchurch. A little redundant, but we went anyway. It was pretty cool and we sang a lot of Matt Redman songs and we were allowed to bring coffee into the auditorium and we sat behind a really smelly old guy. We are going to check out a young adults gathering tonight, see if we can meet some people more our age and play some board games with them, if they're lucky.

We also took a trip to Quail Island, named, oddly enough, after the quails that live there. (as you can see, the creative genius is not exactly overwhelming in this country). We saw some of them though, quails, running around all quail-like. It was pretty and we got to go to the beach by the old leper colony. Czech it out:

There are some more pictures on flickr that I updated today, so go check them out.

Stay tuned to the blog for more installments of WAECSA.