First day at work!

I tried to upload a video for you all, but am having 'technical difficulties'- which really means I just can't seem to make it work. I'll try again soon. In other news though, I had my first day at work today. It involved travelling to Utrecht to the National Office for a meeting. It was so nice to get into thinking about what will be happening this year in Den Haag. While there's much more thinking and organising to do, I'm really excited about the possibilities that there are for my year in Den Haag.

Some of these ideas include:

- helping to establish a bible study with International students at the Haagse Hogeschool (The Hague University). There was one there last year, with a few students going. It may be possible for me to spend some time on campus with these students to train them and to help grow this group.

- looking at opportunities to reach out on campus. Not sure what this might include, but there's the idea of their first ever Mission Week. Having been involved in the Mission Week at Flinders, I'm pretty keen to be involved with this. Not sure if this is for Dutchies or Internationals, or even the both.

- some kind of work with the Dutch students.

- there's a Hotel management school or something near where I'm going to be living, so maybe that's a chance to make contacts there.

There's so many ideas, and I can't wait to nut them out more to see what we can do. I'm also excited about meeting some students (which I get to do on Monday) and to see where they're at and getting to know them. Students are the same around the world it seems! One of the ideas to reach students was a pizza and movie night...just like you would have in Australia. I'm also looking forward to the staff training days where I can meet other IFES staff from around the country. Since it's such a small country, they get together more often than they do in Australia. There's about 20 staff, most of which are Dutch. There are a few international staff (now including myself).

Not really sure what else there is to say, so I'll keep trying to make a short video and upload it, so you can see that I'm still alive and it's not someone else writing on here...