"This is a Missions Field"

That is what I was telling myself as I approached the bouncer at 'Le Bistro' in Hull tonight.

I had never been to a club or bar or anything. So, I was pretty scared at the prospect of going. This week, starting tomorrow with 'move-in's, is Frosh Orientation Week and I am assisting as a facilitator (from here out known as 'facil'). As of 6am tomorrow we are under contract to not drink any alcohol. Thus the party night tonight. I had been praying about it. A couple days ago our team's head messaged us about it. What do I do? Do I go attempting to make friends with my team? Do I stay home to avoid temptation? If I go what will happen? Would I turn down the offer of a drunk person? >.< And so I was pretty stressed about the choice.

Today was our mandatory training to become facils. Last time I didn't know where my group was or what we were doing until like half way through the day and even then I didn't hang out with them or get to know them and then the next day they were all best friends, knew all the cheers and I kinda felt a bit excluded. >.> So I focused more on making friends with the frosh. All good. But this is as much an opportunity as making friends with frosh. So I did want to try and if going to a club is the only way to be their friends, do I want to do that?

So, training. We get to our room and I run into one person who recognizes me by my facebook picture. (lol) So we sat together until they called our team and the people cheering realized we should all sit together. This was partially caused by the lack of our head and vice-heads being there at the beginning. Anyways, I got to meet a few people. One guy was pretty cool. It's funny though because he is going into third year Communications and doesn't know any of the people I know in third year communications. lol.

Anyways, a long day of lectures. Finally at 5 we were released. We went home for dinner and then went to CD's house to decorate our shirts. (Oh, btw, I'm on team S'mores for CU at the Hungry Games. lol) It was nearly time to decide if I was going to go to Hull or not. At 8 we were supposed to be at Brewer Park to take a bus there.

Apparently the whole place was booked for just us, tomorrow would be a lot of work so no one should get too drunk, I'd be going with my new friend who doesn't drink much, RM would be there, you could leave whenever you wanted. So I guess I decided to go.

I honestly really thank God for my new friend. He doesn't like dancing that much. He was hoping we'd be more like sit down talk and get to know each other. So when it was mainly dancing (which I am not all that opposed to in dry situations) we sat at one of like 3 tables. Haha. Unfortunately, with the music blasting we couldn't really talk much. I thought I saw RN, but no. lol. His name was P(?). lol. Nice to meet you. I also got to talk to DV breifly about our summers. At 9:35ish we left. I really didn't know what to do. lol. I couldn't really talk to anyone about the gospel, I couldn't really go dance and ditch my friend (plus the dancing was pretty awkward a lot of the time, so probably better this way. lol.).

Bonus to leaving early: we took a bus, not a cab.

Also we had more time to talk. He has been really open, which is awesome. I'm really glad we met and there's still a whole week ahead. Haha

Ttyl.

D.Fa