Bean Sprouts and Cabbage Heads (aka Prep Week)

Backtracking a bit to when I arrived back to the hallowed halls of college on the 11th of February, in time for Prep Week. For the benefit of non-collegians Prep week is the week of prep before the 84 freshers (1st years) arrive for O week. Normally it's an intensively stressful week but for us it was a breeze as so much correspondence had been done in the holidays (still trying to clear out my inboxes now, actually!)

The O week team consists of 6 second years, all are scrumptious legends and I have had a ball working with them all. Especially the bonding over 39 daily emails over summer, bleaching in the courtyard, bus trips to the Supre factory outlet, early mornings (2am) and early mornings (5:30am) spent doing ... stuff (wait and see!). You're such champions who are servant-hearted and willing to pick up the pieces. Massif respects to Alex (aka Birdie), Jaydog (aka Jaydog), Timburgers (aka Tim), Mal-Practice and Kyle (Thommohawk).

Above: Thommo and Tim aren't cats when it comes to going for the surf rat look.

Below: Never trust 3 guys with a bucket of bleach and 8 inches of your hair.

It's tradition for the O week leaders to dye their hair the same colour of the fresher shirts. Beautiful green, synonomous with slime and all things Kermit. Watch the transformation of these conservative brunettes into Pumped-up and psycho cabbage heads and bean sprouts. Whose idea was it for green fresher shirts anyway?

Poor Mal's hair didn't take kindly the bleach, but after the 3rd treatment it looked a delightful shade of ... marigold?

More on O week to come!

To my faithful readers...

The amount of blogging I've done has been inversely correlational to the hectic-ness of my past month... does that make sense? Ummm, basically this past month has been insane!!! Since moving back to Sydney it's been the most ridiculous amount of mind-blowing fun, plus the stress and responsibility of O Week at college, starting a new degree, being an old chook (ie, looking after freshers at college), starting exec, continuing CBS, Unichurch, my new age group at Wild St Youth and adjusting to life in the fast lane after a most amazingly relaxing time at home.
Thanks go to God for sustaining me in one of the most testing periods of my life thus far. Surviving on pitifully few hours of sleep away from the healthiness of home I was pretty susceptible but miraculously haven't caught the notorious college bugs (yet) and have been in good spirits. Yay for prayer and intercession, thanks dear brothers and sisters :)

Please bear with me as I try to recount the weeks that were...

Arend & Samantha - Feb 10th, 2007

Mr & Mrs Boog

There's something particularly special about Christian weddings. In fact, many very special things that culminate to provide a most beautiful day, but one most important of all.

Yes, when Arend and Sam got married there was joyful praises (thanks to the New College boys, kinda like a rehash of MYC!), an evangelistic sermon by Dominic Steele of Christians in the Media and blessings from the families.

But what is particularly unique is the Lord who binds the two together, the assurance that He is the centre of what should be a firm and grounded marriage.

Arend, may your love for Sam model Christ's self-sacrificial love for His church.
It will be strange not living 5 doors down, we'll miss the 14-year-old girl beats pumpin' down the corridor but I'm sure Sam will appreciate it more than we did ;p It's been an insane year with you as an old boy, I'm sure I can vouch for Chrissy, Hug, Mike and Birdie too.

Plenty of 2CD love: Kat, Chrissy, Boog, Hug

From your doting freshers and freshers-in-law (just for Sam!), we wish you every happiness in the world! Please know that our prayers will be with you. Don't forget to have us all round for coffee and donuts sometime. (I assume you've opened your presents by now...)

Been bitten by the blogging bug

Welcome to the first installment of Butters' Spread,
'Butters' being me, K.E. Butterworth, and 'Spread' being the noun used to describe an article of writing, eg, a two-page spread.

So for better or for worse, Katherine now has a blog!
...Actually, I think it will be for the better. Because as I'm savouring my last week at home, I hope it'll be a way of keeping my friends far and wide in the loop of my exciting (or otherwise) comings and goings... the possibilities are endless! Until the novelty wears off I suppose.

So leave a comment even if it's just a few hellos when you are bored!

Peace out peoples,
katty*B xox