Internet Blues

Wednesday September 24, 2008

I actually got to talk to Ellen today – for like two minutes! They have wireless at Blue Gum and I finally got a guy to help me get connected this morning – would have been nice to have the whole time I was there but oh well. So during our morning tea break ( about 11am here, 9pm there) I signed on for like 15min and got to talk to Marian and DJ on AIM! Really good to talk to Marian! Then I signed on again just before lunch and talked to Ellen for like 2min before I had to go. She was up late studying – 11pm by now. So yeah, didn’t get to talk about much but good I guess just to say hi. Hopefully I’ll be on again tomorrow night (Thursday morning for you guys) and maybe we can im or even skype! Haven’t used that webcam yet. So jealous they have wireless at Blue Gum –lol. But I guess it really is good having limited internet. Sure makes me appreciate it more.

When I walk form my house; down the hill then back up the hill, to Waterslea to use the staff computer with internet I just think about places that don’t even have internet and the days, not too long ago, before internet and how extremely limited communication must have been then. That always makes me feel grateful that my friends and family are just a short walk away.

Not having constant internet has also been good in that at school I would get up, get my breakfast, and plop down in front of the computer to check my email and the weather for the day. Now, and during the summer, I would plop down with my breakky and open my bible. I’ve gone through all of Paul’s letters now: Romans – Philemon. Except somehow I missed the end of Ephesians so I need to go back and finish that up. Also did Nehemiah and Ester, just finished Matthew, and now I’m in Isaiah (pronounced IsIah here – silly Aussies, there is clearly and “A” in there – haha!).

Yeah, so that has been good. I think it would be better if I was reading through with a group or a class or even along with a book that might offer some more insight. I have an occasional conversation with people in training or something I have just read will come up in a sermon or conversation and that is pretty cool but I still think I would possibly probably get more out of it if I had someone or someone’s to discuss it with. But there is probably something to be said for reading through on your own too – hard to say!