SPLorne // 2013 : #2 Living in lorne, teams & daily schedule

// T H E  L I V I N G  A R R A N G E M E N T S 

So most of you would know that over the course of the two weeks we stayed at a cute little backpackers lodge owned by a lovely old man called 'Robbo'.

In case you were interested in our living arrangements:

• There was a communal kitchen and bathroom which we shared with other backpackers
• Girls were spread across two rooms, (8) in the first room closest to the kitchen and (4) a separate room which opened up into the balcony.  
• The bunkhouse was pretty much a multipurpose room used for storage, debriefing, seminars and meetings during the day and the boys slept there at night. 

// O U R  T E A M S  &  S C H E D U L E 

Each person was assigned to a different project team involved with running each aspect of project. Personally, I had been placed on the worship team along with 2 other amazing and talented student musos on project - James and Anna. It was as challenging as it was fun being on a team with these guys.

Sidenote: Jase, the guy in the chinos with the impressive facial hair is an actual muso. He's an amazing songwriter and bassist in an alternative rock band in the states called 'The August Exchange'. On their EP he sings a song he wrote called 'Behind my Clenched Teeth'.

link: Behind My Clenched Teeth

There were another 4 teams, and whilst I know all of the teams were of equal importance over project, secretly, I thought and still think worship team was the best. haha.

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Days started off at about 10am with breakfast for most people, but people on the worship team would be up at about 9am to practice and prep for that day's set list. yay for waking up early.

Every day after breakfast we would do some worship followed by some quiet time before we recouped and debriefed from the previous days events.

Lunch would usually follow this at about 12:30

Activities after lunch were changeable depending on the day. Most of the time, we would have a seminar/ bible talk of some sort, whilst other days we could have 'mandatory community fun time' or team meetings.

At about 2:30 we would come together and have a short debrief run by the Afternoon Evange team before heading out to the beach.

We would then return for dinner which was at 6:30 - 7:30.

After dinner we would have either free time or another seminar before having our 20 minute debrief prior to setting up the 'droppo' at the neighboring Fig Tree Community Center for opening at 9:00pm

Our nights went into the early hours of the morning as the 'droppo' was open to schoolies until 1am. I think most nights after all the packing-up, showering and snacking it was about 2:30 before I was able to get some rest before the next day.

This was pretty much our day to day schedule more or less. It was pree intense and by the end of the 5-6th day, exhaustion began to kick in and we started having to keep each other accountable to make sure we were all getting enough sleep.