Sunday was a sofa day. I thought I was better…but then i felt a bit more poorly. Lewis came to look after me, he brought me a goody bag of grapes, smoothie, Ribena (yay for cosy juice!) and chocolate for when i’m fully better! So I was better in that I had migrated from bed to sofa…but still couldn’t be upright for too long. Thank goodness for Sky +. Watched some of the Girls Aloud Show from the O2 and then on Comedy Central it’s Sofa Sunday, with Scrubs all day. I watched Scrubs from 1pm-6pm, and then they started to repeat the episodes…what’s that about! Then watched Saturday’s X Factor and then bed. Wasn’t really up for eating much although I knew I should have been.

10 and a half hours sleep is amazing. Straight through. So I had been told not to go into work but knew I would go nuts! So I watched Jeremy Kyle in the morning, got ready and went into work for 1pm. Despite the ‘What are you doing here?! Go home!’s I felt very welcome. 1pm-2pm: Lunch Break; 2pm-3pm: Staff Meeting; 3.15pm-4.45pm: Meeting with Dan over Coffee in the Bistro; 5pm: Hometime! A nice relaxing intro back! The evening I spent catching up on Neighbours and Home and Away and worked on ‘All About Abi’.

Now it’s Tuesday and we have much sickness in the team…please pray for us!!! Ben has Shingles and a Cold (which we have decided is flu, purely so we can say he has Flingles), Andy has been at the Doctors this morning with stomach pains, Claira has been signed off work for another month and I’m still recovering. We would muchly appreciate your prayers as we continue to rehearse!

Tags: 10.5 Hours Sleep, All About Abi, Bistro, Chocolate, Comedy Central, Cosy Juice, Flingles, Girls Aloud, Grapes, Home and Away, Jeremy Kyle, Neighbours, Prayer, Ribena, Scrubs, Sky+, Sofa, X Factor

So the end of the first week.

It has taken some adjusting to but it’s great! We’ve spent the week in the office rehearsing, having training sessions, times of Bible study and prayer, as well as scheduling in personal time to pray and reflect.
Taste have been learning songs and Diversion have been re-writing and learning All About Abi.
We’ve bonded really quickly as a team, spending Weds and Thurs (Happy Birthday Ben!!!) evening together socially has really helped. I’m very excited to have another girl on team, me and Becca have already had a good girlie chat over coffee in the Bistro! We’re starting to create our own ‘in jokes’ as a team…but us second years can’t help boring the first years with stories and jokes from last year (we miss you guys!).
See the beautiful new team on my CIO Team page.

**So today in PTO (personal time out) we were looking at Romans 12. 20mins so isn’t long enough to process all that is in it! The bit that really got me was verse 10 – in the NIV it goes something like this ‘Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Honour one another above yourselves.’ What does it mean to be devoted? How do I do that? In my every day life, how do I consistently honour everyone else above myself?**

Tags: All About Abi, Bible Study, Birthday, Bistro, CIO Team, Devoted, Diversion, First Week, Prayer, Rehearsals, Romans 12:10, Taste, Training

So this morning I woke up approx 23secs before my alarm went off which was much more civilised!

Today was more line learning and practising being a chav. Discovered the local Bistro (thats what its called – its the lttle cafe on the industrial estate, about 30secs walk from the office), mmm nice hot chocolate! Went to Tesco at lunch time….HUGE Tesco, but no self service tills Ryan set me up with my email address (laurabayliss@vizaviz.org) although my laptop is yet to become a fully fledged member of the network

Then spent the afternoon learning some more lines and blocking 2 of the sketches I learnt yesterday (i.e. getting up and doing it!). I had a small pink feather boa to help me get into character!

This evening has been quite quiet, been chatting to Beth about holidays and weddings and families and fun stuff like that. Then spoke to my sister and my mummy tonight

Think I shall watch mock the week on the iplayer before going to sleep! Get a slight lay in tomorrow as we have a retreat day where I get to meet lots of other Viz-a-Viz people. Should be good!

 

1 Kings 19:11 ‘The Lord said “Go out and stand in the presence of The Lord, for the Lord is about to pass by’ – Get in the presence of God and He WILL meet with you. Allow God to change your world view and give you a true view. God wasn’t in the wind, the earthquake or the fire, but in the gentle whisper.

Tags: 1 Kings 19:11, Bistro, Chav, Families, Feather Boa, Holidays, Hot Chocolate, Mock the Week, Retreat Day, Tesco, Weddings