Well, it's been a few days since I've managed to update things here, and I have so MANY Journal Entries I need to write to catch up a bit on what's been going on. I guess I can squeeze out one tonight and see how we go from there, eh?
Over the past couple of weekends, I've been busy with a lot of St. John type stuff. In particular, I've managed to go away on a couple of camps that have involved me in them in some respect or another. The first one was in another state of Australia - Victoria to be precise. That was what my previous entry about Flying referred to - my trip across there to participate in said camp.
As it happens, both Camps were involved in Training somehow. The Victorian camp was for Cadet training, in which the kids were learning some First Aid over the weekend. I was involved as one of the Trainers for the camp, and also got involved in doing some of the Drill stuff with them - which was good fun. Was a bit weird, as I didn't actually know NEone at the camp, but I made the most of it. Sure, we had our difficulties - such as losing one of the girls for a bit one evening (she turned up inside one of the boy's tents) - but the camp ran pretty smoothly, which was good. :)
The following weekend (last weekend) was another Training camp, but here in Adelaide. Mylor, to be specific. Now, I dunno about other countries, but here in Australia every town has a pub. It's kinda traditional - doesn't matter whether there's only four houses in the town, you gotta have a pub. Now in my experience, this is the norm - or so I thought. It seems that every town - except Mylor - has a pub. So when we organised our dinner for the Saturday night, we had to travel a bit to get a drink and a feed. Not so good. :(
The rest of the weekend involved Training up some members of St. John in how to have fun. Well, sorta. It's a bit tricky to explain. Let's just say that one of my MANY responsibilities in St. John involves entertaining children. The group I'm in is kinda like a group of clowns - we dress funny and make silly noises - but we don't LOOK quite like clowns. Part of the weekend was involved in getting the people involved working together as a team, and the rest involved teaching 'em how to use our equipment and play some kewl games. We had fun, and no-one died, so the weekend went OK, really. :)
I have the weekend off from Camps for a change. Not got another one of those coming up now until the long weekend in October, so I'll manage to catch up on some sleep and maybe even play some games if I'm really lucky.
More another time, people - hope you're all having a great weekend. :D