Church service

Wednesday 4 March

Wichert:

Today was a busy day. We had to get up early to have an early breakfast. We were very tired but, we knew we had to be on time for the chapel service. We had to organise the chapel service with our tutor group. A tutor group is the group were you always register in, in the morning before the lessons start, to see if everybody is there. It only happens ones in the two years that the same tutor group has to organise a chapel service, so we were very lucky that we could participate in the service. We started to prepare the service one week ago. The story was about gossip. Lilly a girl from our tutor group wrote a very good story about how bad gossip was and that it can have very big influences on the lifes of people even when the gossip starts out as a really small thing. I had to search some proverbs out of the bible that were about gossip. I found three and had to read the proverbs to the whole school. Jeroen also had to read some sentences in front of the school. At 8:15 we had our final repetititon before the church service would start. The repetition went alright. So I wasn't really nervous to speak in front of the school. Everybody was slowly coming into the church and sat down. Then it was our turn to speak to the school, everything went really smoothly and a lot of teachers came to our tutor and said that our church service was really good. The rest of the day was normal, we were just following the normal lessons. After school we had our hockey practice. This was really fun and very similair to the hockey practices in the netherlands. We were doing all kinds of exercises to improve our skills. After the hockey training Jeroen and I played some games on the computer as we always do. Around 19:30 Mr. Waller came in and said to us that we had to follow him. He was going to a place where we had never been before in the sixth form house. When we walked through the room we entered a giant movie theatre room. Where we were going to play a horse betting game. Mr. Waller had a dvd with him on which horse races were recorded and we had to bet on which horse would win ofcourse. We all started with 5000 pounds and we did six races. I won with 230000 pounds. I was really lucky because after the 5 race i had 11500 and two persons had more money than I had. So I went all in on horse six and it won. The horse had an odd of 20:1 so I earned 20 times the money I had put in. After the horse betting game we were so tired that we went to bed.