This is what happened in week 16.
On the weekend we were meant to have a Volleyball Competition. There weren't enough teams signed up to hold the competition. We still had volleyball on Saturday night though. I had duty this weekend. This meant that I had a late nights on the weekend. This wasn't to good because every night the week before I was up and on duty till 0030 or 0100.
Friday the student missionaries took vespers. This was really good. It was about thankfulness. We all talked about something that we are thankful for. I was put in charge of the video for it. I went around some of the students during the week and asked then what some of the things that they are thankful for. I got some cool answers. They ranged from being thankful for friends and family to the radiator heaters in the rooms to music. In the program we had a skit to show what the things that the students take for granted. It all started out with getting the students up out of bed and showing what they put us through in the morning. This went through the whole day up till they go to bed. At the end of each scene we showed some pictures of what kids around the world live with such as sleeping on the floor, rummaging through a tip, sitting outside under a tree being taught, begging for food, etc... The students liked the skit but I hope what we were portraying was shown through to them. After the skit each student missionary got up and said something that we are thankful for. Then we had the video I made. After the video I got up and invited Leroy up. This was pre organised but Leroy didn't have any idea that I was going to do it. I got him to tell something about his experience here at Vejlefjord. Once he had finished I also invited students to get up and share some experiences that they had enjoyed with Leroy. Some were quite funny and others were just embarrassing for Leroy. After that we got the students to write 5 things that they were thankful for. This was really good. We read the answers out once they were finished. Some of them wrote their friends and family others were being alive and breathing. At the end of the program we had students come up and thank us for the program. They really enjoyed it.
Once all the students went to bed the SM's held a late night get together. We enjoyed some food and talked abit. After this we went for a swim. We thats what we told Leroy we were doing. What we really did was set the pool up in a relaxing setting and had lots of tea light candles lit around a massage table. We had Leroy come down once we were all ready. We had 11 people giving Leroy a massage. He was quite wiry and worried that we were going to do something to him. After 6-8 minutes Leroy finally relaxed to enjoy the massage. After ten minutes he was nearly asleep and very relaxed. To his surprise, 2 of the guys went and got 2 buckets of ice cold water and poured the water over him. He was really shocked and had no idea what really happened at first. After we told him to jump into the pool to warm up but he was worried that we had done something to the pool also. We had to turn the lights on and jump in before he was willing to get in. I ended up calling it a night at 0300. The others were still up until 0430 in the pool and just talking.
On Saturday I had to make sure that the students that were at the school on the weekend went to Sabbath school and Church. In the afternoon Leo went on duty. This allowed me to have time off. During this time I went for a walk with Leroy, Nat, Crista, Vanessa and Mario. We walked in the woods around the school.
While walking we did a few things. One of them was to follow Leroy through a black berry patch on the side of a hill. this was very thick and hard to get through. Leroy ended up falling backwards to squash them all down to create a path. After walking for awhile we found a hill with lots of leaves on it and we put them into a big pile and was jumping into it. That was fun. We kept on walking after awhile and went past a frozen dam. We threw dead branches into the water and it broke the ice. After we went to a lookout that looked over the school and the fjord. It is really nice looking over everything. I left everyone there and headed back to the school to be back on duty and help Leo out.
On sunday, I was woken up by Jenny to help her find someone to do brunch pligt. One of the guys who had the pligt wasn't here. I was on duty for most of that day. I spent time in Leroy's room and chilled out with him and the out people that were there.
Monday I chilled out. Talked to Leroy for a bit to find out how he was doing. It was his last day at the school. In the afternoon I went on duty at 1630 in time for pligt. At pligt I found out that 2 of my pligt workers were put onto another pligt.
Now I only have 2 kids to do outdoor pligt with me. I got a book for all the students to write something in. They were all meant to have written something in it before 2200 but they didn't. I had to go around to all the guys and get them to write something. The girls were still writing in the book until 2300 so by the time I got through all the guys it was 0030. After all the guys were in bed alseep I headed up to Leroy's room. There were all the guys in Skrænten and some of the Sm's in there. We all stayed up because Leroy was leaving the school at 0330 to go to the airport.
At 0330 we had Crista, Vanessa, Mario, Jenny, Christopher, and myself going to the airport with Leroy. The reason why we were going to the airport at such an insane time was because Leroy's flight left Billund at 0700 and he needed to book his bike in at the airport with him. After booking we sat around the airport until it was time for us to leave. It was sad to see Leroy leave. He was and is a great guy to work with. Leroy if your reading this, Thanks heaps for everything you have done here at Vejlefjord.
After leaving the airport we headed back to the school. When we got back it was time for wakeup. I went down to the spisestue(dining hall) and had breakfast. After breakfast I went to the vagtlighed(vagt apartment) in the girls down and slept until we had a staff meeting. This was only for 1 1/2 hrs of sleep. After the meeting I had to go teach English. I wasn't really awake enough to tutor but the guys had some work that they had to do and I helped them out where they needed it. After that English class I went to the next one where I taught a class because the teacher was sick. I told the students some stuff about myself. Where I am from and live/lived in Australia and travelled around the world. When this class finished I went to the office and checked the SM mailbox. While I was there I also talked to the staff in there. They all told me to sleep. When I finally got to my room I found Leroy's sick card(same as our medicare card) and took it to the office and asked what I should do with it. The secretary took it and finished the paper work for it. She sent me back to bed. I finally got to bed by 1300. At 1430 I got woken up by Daniel I think for esktra idræt. I wasn't to pleased to be woken up. During esktra idræt I was falling asleep. I ended being awake and on duty until 2000. Everyone I saw told me to sleep. I must have looked like hell or walking like a drunked. I ended sleeping for 10 1/2 hrs.
Wednesday I had wakeup. I wasn't quite awake when I did it. After I had finished my duties, I went back to sleep. I missed Danish. In the afternoon I went back on duty. I was better then. That night I broke down whilst talking to one of the students. It finally sunk into me that Leroy had left and that I was going to leave here and leave all the friends I have made here at Vejlefjord.
Thursday. Not much happened. It was my day off. I did esktra idræt and also pligt. Leo moved into Drengebygning, the building I live in. Now there are two of us in drengebygning. This is great because now I have someone to talk to other than the students.
Friday I cleaned up my room and packed my bag to go to Juletur.
Pictures from the volleyball weekend.
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