RICE BDO

My voice is gone, face is sunburnt, the hamstrings are tight and I'm extremely wasted but at the same time very excited. Why? Because RICE Big Day Out turned out to be awesome! It was kinda hard to compare to last year because I was doing security so I was 'outside' the action for most of the day. This year though, I was inside Wentworth Common for the whole 5.5 hours and it rocked!! According to the organisers, over 1500 Sydney high school youths came, not just for a fun day out but also to hear the gospel of Jesus preached! And it can only get better with next week's RICE rally at Town Hall!

Me and this other guy were in charge of the 'penalty shoootout' stall and it was very popular with the kids (Maybe World Cup fever still around?). For every hour between the talks, I spent 45mins standing up doing running commentary of every shootout. Man it was tough. It was like calling a soccer match. Didn't have much of a chance to talk about the gospel with the kids 'cos everything was happening so fast but did talk to this one guy while we were waiting for some running repairs on the goal. He's in Yr 12, just completed the HSC trials and came to RICE (for the first time) to 'chill out'. He found the talks 'OK' and I hope he'll come to the rally next week.

Afterwards I went to Mark's 'Unit warming' thing. Pretty neat place he's renting. Close to the train station and shops everywhere when you step out of the unit. Very convenient, just like Hong Kong. So bummed at his place for about 45 mins, had a cup of alcoholic jelly (weird taste), chat with uni friends and then went out to the Workers for dinner (and saw Cronulla self-destruct against the Panthers).