We were racing today. I don't like it. You have to be too aggressive on the start line and it's flipping hard to do a good start. No, I do not like racing, but apparently we're going to be doing lots of it as it's supposed to be an amazing way to get up your skills and knowledge on the rules of the road. I'm getting better at sailing, lots of hiccups today though, struggled through it: capsizing lots, giving way lots, throwing my hands up in despair lots. Yep, it was a pretty hard day. I wasn't too bad after last night surprisingly...
I cycled back into the UKSA at 23.48 after travelling along the cycle path which would probably have been a very nice ride during the sunlit hours of the day, but at night felt very in the middle of nowhere. Embarrassing though it is to say this one of the thoughts that entered my mind cycling back was of Noddy, and the time when he gets tricked into going into the woods in his car and then he gets mugged and his car gets stolen, and there was a little rhyme that went with it something along the lines of "it isn't very good in the dark dark wood, in the middle of the night, when there isn't any light," .................... .................. just giving you a pause to have a little laugh, or a big one, whatever. Thankfully I did no get mugged or have my bike stolen from me, but it was pretty dark and my light seemed pretty small.
To get deep and philosophical, or a little anyway, as can happen in the late hours of the night, I came to the conclusion that life can be like a bicycle ride home in the dark, where you can't really see what's coming up ahead, all you can see is a little weak circle in front of you as you make your way through it.
Enough of the deep-ish, philosophical-ish random thoughts. Yesterday evening was great, we ate cake, chatted about some stuff, went out to a youth cafe that was being started to help support the guy who was setting it up (a friend) and whilst at that cafe I came across a game that I've only ever seen one place else: in my house. It's the pig game, immediately I'm sure that my family are going, "oh, that game, cool," and everyone else is going, "what!?!?!?" It goes like this: you throw two small plastic pigs and depending on how they land you score different points. You get as many points as you can in one turn but if you throw them in a certain way then you lose all the point you made that turn and it's the next person. Otherwise you can choose when you stop your turn and your points are banked and the next person has a turn. Then you keep going round until someone gets one hundred points, and to make it more interesting if you throw them so that the pigs are touching you lose all your banked points and have to go back to zero again. It's a great game and we actually had quite a bit of fun playing it.
Then by the time we got back had more talk about challenging other Christians if they're doing something that you think they shouldn't be and how it can be difficult and how you could go about it, prayed, said goodbye, it was about 23.20/23.30 and I cycled off home. I must admit it was a little bit scary, but mainly because it was in the "middle of nowhere" (as much as you can be on the Isle of Wight) on a road I didn't know. Great fun though.
We have the pig game :-)
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