A Helping Hand

Today was a combined Easter baptism service at our church, so three of our 'sister' churches joined us to celebrate Easter and the people getting baptised. I was sitting right at the back with some of the guys and it was kind of hard to hear!

The service eventually finished though, and we were introduced to a new girl called Katie! Hopefully she joins our youth group!

Gabrielle, one of our youth group leaders came over to me during lunch, and gave me a little present she said was from her and her husband Tim. She told me it wasn't a baptism present but something she hoped would help.

When I unwrapped it a little later while I was on my own, I discovered it to be...

A guide to dating for Christian guys!

Hahahaha! I think it's becoming like an Oddfellows inside joke/goal, to see Calum get a girlfriend! Well guys, I won't disappoint you ;)

I was reading the book in a corner by myself for a little while till one of the girls came over to see what I was doing, snatched my book and ran off into the toilet with it!

Cracking the Code

I had an interesting conversation with one of my youth group leaders on Friday night, who started talking to me about girls before hinting something to me and telling me I should make the first move...hmmm....

We then had a special baptism service on Sunday where I had to mop the guys toilet floors (which was a bit more time-consuming than I thought!). I mentioned my conversation to a few people at church during lunch afterwards and they seemed to agree. They all told me it would be hard to find a girlfriend once I leave uni and so I should do something about it soon! They're all starting to put the pressure on me now!

I then caught up with...I won't mention her name but someone I haven't talked to in a while at church and we were just catching up for a while when she caught me off-guard by asking

"How's Person X?"


Apparently she had noticed something between us for ages but had never said anything to me about it till now! I didn't think I sent out signals! Surely I'm not that obvious...that is if I am interested in anyone?

My Sad Tale Continues...

(Continuing on from the previous post)…Zippo tried introducing me to her new friends who were relatively new to this country from Malaysia, one the same age as me and one the same age as Aonghas. It was her attempt to help me to try find a girlfriend before the end of this year so I could win the bet! Yeah right! So while her sister Szelin and she talked to their friends, I had a go at making conversation with them. At first it was a little slow, but as soon as I asked them if they ate cats and dogs in Malaysia it picked up a bit! Once Szelin’s friends’ parents came to pick them up, the Malaysian girls instantly left the room to do something. I must’ve scared them away! They soon came in after a while and sat in the corner reading magazines amongst them. Later Zippo explained that even she found it difficult to make conversation with them, and she’s someone who can carry a conversation on for ages (not an insult but a good thing because it makes it interesting chatting to her)!