ORIENTATION!!
All 19 of our wonderful new students arrived, after much anticipation. We spent most of our orientation week familiarizing ourselves with Living Springs-- our new home for the next 4 months, and getting to know one another. However, we did get to enjoy a roudy and exciting Kiwi game of Rugby-- Canterbury vs. OOOOTTTAAAGGGGO! Otago has the best cheer, but our team (Canterbury) won! The students also spent sometime getting to know our closest city, Christchurch, and did a bit of reflecting on the differences and similarites between New Zealand and the US. All in all, it's been a busy and satisfying first week together and we look forward to the new adventures that God leads us into!

pictures: 1- Tyler and Meghan getting ready for the Rugby game.
2-- the students getting a lesson from director Chris Elisara on how to play the game.