paatoral visit

usually, a pastoral visit is when the pastor goes and visits someone, right? well, yesterday, SHINE fellowship and i all went down to varsity lakes to visit the pastor!
grace the physio came to pick me up. originally, she said she'd come @ 1:30, but didn't arrive to collect me until like past 2pm! the reason, she explained, was that there'd been a change in leaving time, and that somebody (kathy, i think 'twas) had rung my mother to inform her. i asked her where tim, her lil bro, was, and grace said that he'd join us for dinner but not the walk around the lake, coz he'd been playing soccer earlier in the week and some big horrible player from the opposing team had STOMPED on him! ><
grace tootled us off to BCAC first, where everyone was meeting up before we set off together to varsity lakes, where the pastor lives. dr. dr. tai popped into the driver's seat for a quick chat, before vicky and kathy hopped into the backseat, then grace finally tootled us all down to varsity lakes!
on the way, she flicked the CD player on - she was listening to some singer called gem.
when we arrived, dr. dr. tai gave me a hand in. i apologised to reverend lam for not being able to take my shoes off unless i was using my manual wheelchair, then flopped on the couch and had a nice long chat with grace and dr. dr. tai (anna gets two dr.'s coz she's doing further study for her medicine degree! she's already a doctor, but after her study, she'll be doctor doctor! :D)
awhile later, reverend lam got us all for a nice long walk along the lake. sometimes i was allowed sparkless, other times i walked short distances with either uncle kelvin or reverend lam holding era.
and gosh, but the lake ... 'twas BEAUTIFUL! like, coz 'twas sunset, the lake was reflecting the sky, and the water was a shimmering blue, purple, orange ... just spectacular. :)
but it's winter now, and it gets dark really quickly! the pastor was leading the way back, and @ one point, i called "marco!" then was rather freaked out to hear the "polo!" response coming from BEHIND me! XD
but with the help of michael's i-phone GPS, we all made it back to the house safely. some girl (her name's not heidi, but i keep forgetting what it is! ><) took me once to the loo, where i managed alright by myself.
then back outside, 'twas dinner time! everyone had brought along a plate to share; much thanks to florence jie jie who had kindly fried me one plate of ham, eggs and onion to take along and share. :) much thanks to dr. dr. tai who got me some food! my favourite dish of the night was daphne's - she made broccoli and cauliflower in cheese! so i honestly told mother that night, "i ate lotsa vegies last night!" XD
i also had two slices of mccain's ham and pineapple pizza, some of dr. dr. tai's spaghetti with red sauce ('twas really sour! ><") and kudos to tim, who made really yummy chicken! aunty amy kindly passed me a lil bowl of mandarins and purple grapes, and thanks to tim who passed me a plastic mug of water.
after dinner, kathy kindly lent me her arm to hold as i walked over to the living room where tonight's program kicked off. i really enjoyed that, coz i sat in an armchair - the computer char. complete, blessed safety. :)
thomas led us first in this game. we had to write down eight things that were very dear to us. my eight were: (1) parents, (2) bear bear, (3) my ability to function as an independent person, (4) my other teddies, (5)my books, (6) the computer, (7) the rest of my family and (8)the piano. next, we went around the room, playing scissors paper rock with everyone else. if we lost, we had to give up one of our eight slips of paper, but if we won, the person who lost against us would have to give away one of his/her pieces of paper. @ the end, we shared about what we'd chosen to give away and what we'd won. i didn't know that was how we were playing @ first, and just gave mine away @ random. but i won several myself. the funniest one was 'dai dai' ('little brother' in canto), which i won off grace, and i told tim, "hey, you're my little brother now. that's cool, coz i've always wanted a sibling (i'm an only child). i'm twenty-four, BTW. how old do you wanna be?" i think he chose twenty-one. :P the other really interesting one i won was from thomas. "hey, what's elim?" i asked him. turns out 'elim' was the name of the former company he worked for.
after the game, thomas and daph lewft, coz daph was leading worship @ church toms and needed a good night's sleep.
someone led us in worship to sing two songs, one in canto and the other in english. i made the mistake of accidentally singing some harmony during the english song, then caught my mistake and shut up for the rest of the song.
then reverend lam took the stage, and shared a bit about his life. his mother, the poor woman, she had lost six babies before giving birth to rev. lam, but then had gone on to produce another SEVEN! and rev. lam was born a MASSIVE baby - he weighed in @ TEN pound ELEVEN! lol, @ this point, i raised my arm and asked, "umm ... rev. lam, i was born only five pound two. why were you so big?" XD
after he finished sharing, 'twas time to head home. someone took me once more to the loo, then uncle kelvin held onto me while grace went to move her car to the driveway. lol, i can never remember: does grace and tim attend CCCB or BCCC? lol, it's one of them. all these As, Bs and Cs! i've a mind to open a church one day called WXYZ! 'y' can stand for 'yahweh' and 'z' 'zion', but what about W and X? XD :P
anyways, grace tootled me, tim, that girl who's not heidi and some other boy (i didn't see who he was coz 'twas all dark already) home.
i arrived home after 10:30 but before 10:45. for some reason, the parents both chucked an absolute @ me before they finally lemme sleep. :(
but all in all, i had a great time joining SHINE fellowship, going down to visit rev. lam @ varsity lakes! i'm just curious, though ... how did we manage to find a pastor that lives so far away from us?
anyways, next post here ... should come on thursday - book club! until then~
cheers,
em. ^^