"Mid-Winter Banquet"

So I went to this crazy event at my church called the "midwinter banquet" (basicially its our excuse to have a huge ball). It was a massive sit down meal and live jazz performace - the whole shabang! I got some photos so you can see my church but I'll get some more from Sunday




Miss you guys all in Hong Kong abundantly! What do you think of my church? crazy a?

Adam

Where are all the people?

Today has been slow and interesting. Interesting because its slow. & I remember everything being alot bigger than it is now. Somehow Hong Kong made NZ seem rather small! I caught up with some friends and even made my first fire in 6 months! Haha what do you think? Thats in our lounge.. i'll have to post some other photos of my house n sutff later.

Anyways just blogging cuz I feel so distant and this helps me feel like Hong Kong is just around the corner! I've gotta big dinner tonight with some of my extended family so gotta go. Love you guys,

Adam

Airport & 1st Day in AUCKLAND!!

Thanks guys for comming out to see me off.. It would have been very very painful to sit in the HK airport by myself for over an hour.. stuck with my thoughts and memories of everyone.


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I arrived in a very very COLD Auckland airport, breathed in fresh air and chocked it straight back up again. to clean. Dad met me along with some friends. I was awake for a long 30 hours (having absolutely no sleep on the plane and watching very little TV. not a good flight). I thought it would be hard to sleep cuz of all my thoughts of you guys but it was surprisingly easy. (may have had something to do with the little sleep I had on the plane) I awoke 13 and a half hours later to a rediculously cold morning. In fact its just ALWAYS COLD! I wearing 4 thick layers in this picture:


O, I thought I'd take some photos of my place so you can see. This is my house, entranceway & pool. Not bad aye? (they are also for me cuz im not going to see them for another 6months!)


A little side note:
This is to Tom and any other Mac users:.. PC's suck! Seriously, I'm on one now trying to sort out this blog and its soooooo slow. and this is a good PC! I wish I was back on my nice quick G5, finished blogs and emails within 10mins. I've been on this thing for like an hour already!


Thinking of you all,
Keep me connected
Adam

Matt & Megs Wedding / Salsa / Me Leaving =(

We had an awesome night last night at Matt and Meg's wedding. Although they did play ridulously OLD music and OLD people were acting rather too "young" if you know what I mean. Speeches were soo funy, very good. John you spoke well at the service - I'm guna miss you. To the married couple: Bless your ministry, marriage & most important: Honeymoon!!!

To Flight852:
Thanks for everything Love you!
This is a drawing of Flight852, see if ou can spot yourself...


To Yan:
Happy Birthday!!! Salsa was awesome, So glad to have shared your birthday with you before I leave. God Bless =)


Thanks to Hong Kong, Love you all.. See you soon =)

ADam

Final Day in the Office

So I'm sitting here on my lonesome doing my last day in the office =( What a painful experience. I don't want to go. Joanne even just suggested - and I quote - "Why can't you just cancel your flight and stay?" Haha I wish! Yet its my time to go and thats kool. Theres a season for all things.

It's quite funny cuz I'm just chillin here sorting out my final stuff and the entire office isn't actually here! everyone's stressing about the wedding on Saturday or in meetings or whatever.

Anyway, I'm told that I've made an impact here so I'm going to take their word for it! Thanks to everyone in the office - my family. Love you all.

Adam Out

My last Refugee Meeting

Ohhh you guys are sooo awesome. I wish I could stay longer, I'm going to miss all of you so much. Keep checking out this site for updates on where I'm at and what I'm doing. Go well with God, I'll be praying for you. John - thanks for all your input into my life - you've been a huge blessing. Thanks also for giving me the oppotunity to lead!

Don't ever stop singing, you guys rock!

God Bless
ADam

My last One_Eighty =(

I braved getting through my last One_eighty last saturday night. It was tough to be there for the last time. I did a testimony which I was very grateful to Derek for giving me a huge 1 day heads up for knowing about it! (you love putting people on the spot don't you?) Anyway, I managed.

I ended up missing most of Derek's actual sermon (sorry man) cuz I was setting up for playing sax with Ben, Ephraim and Brett afterwards. It was awesome. You guys are amazing! Everyone loved it and really got into it.. So glad that I got the oppotunity to play again before I leave. Wish I had played it more!

OUt
Adam

Matt's Stag

We had a wicked night last night 4 Matt's stag night. Good on you Matt, you took all that on the chest quite nicely! (I wont say much more cuz aparently what happens on a stag night stays on a stag night!)

Bless you mate and your marriage with Meg. You two will make an awesome team. Love you both.

Adam

Leaving The Vine...

The inevitable had to come. Sorry guys. As much as I don't want to leave I know its time to go. And its only a very short 13 days away! The above is an office leaving lunch (for me) which involved 11 office staff, a very very good cheese&bacon burger, speeches and gift giving. It was really touching to see how each person has contributed to my time here and how much I will honestly miss each one of them. You guys are amazing.

Honestly, talking about this more is going to make it even harder so I'll leave the goodbyes for when they need to come. Love you all.

Global Day of Prayer

I had an amazing day on Sunday at the Global Day of Prayer. 40,000 Christians gathered together in HK stadium to pray for Hong Kong, China and the world. The afternoon was awesome. I even got a special pass cuz I helped organise some stuff. I felt very offical. I even got to go in the VIP box where all the big shots sit when its the Rugby 7's!

The picture at the top is of the 2000 person choir with a cross in the middle. Not bad aye? Alot of their singing happened to be in Chinese (no kidding!)which was obviously a slight language barrier but they had translations which made it a bit better.

Anyway that's just a cool event I thought you'd might wana take a look at =)

Singing off,
Me