Introductions

Hi, I'm Charlotte and I'm currently on a gap year with Church Army. Basically we're looking to serve people who need it most. As a Christian I like to try and live as Jesus did and be as like Him as I can be. Showing others Jesus' love through actions is something I'll be doing a lot this year especially with the 6 week placement in Romania.

Currently we're in Sheffield, getting to know each other and building trust in each other. Everyone's awesome and mostly Northern Irish then 2 English and 1 American! It's a fabulous group of people who I get on well with.

On the first day we arrived and had lunch together and things split into 2 groups.. boys and girls. Initially that's okay because everyone's more comfortable around their own gender! So we then had a full day of getting to know each other and bond with each other. We went out to dinner to Witherspoons which was lovely and all the girlies sat together. As we went to bed that first night, we sat in the kitchen of our flat (Phillip, Aimee, Amy, Chris and I) and had some flat mate time which was altogether rather lovely. That was 2 days ago and we were more comfortable with each other yesterday. Our Friday brought a very intense devotional session where we invited God to come and speak to us about what ever He wanted to and it was all very heavy. Then Aimee, Amy, Phillip and myself had some free time so went to coffee with Neville and had this amazing thing called dirty pud. Quite frankly the most amazing dessert EVER. After this we came back and had dinner which was curry and as it makes me vomit I just had rice. Dinner was the most fun I've had during my time in Sheffield so far! Chris, Aoife, Phillip and I were sitting at the table and we just had non stop banter! It was amazing! After dinner we wend to Chapel and encouraged each other and talked about placement then watched a movie and hung in our flat.

Today has brought some more team building in the form of rock climbing. I was loving life with the rock climbing and was really proud that I was able to climb a really hard one! We were doing it on proper rocks, never mind any of those walls, PROPER ROCKS! It was really fun and challenging to do but I enjoyed it!

Now we're just sitting in the kitchen all on our laptops doing what ever we want to! :) It's been really good so far and I'm not homesick yet! :D Hopefully it'll continue to be this good :)

Charlotte :3