Virtually Paul

Summer Camp, College and the bass from U2

November 20, 2006 on 4:19 pm | In Bible College, The Life of Paul |

You’ll be pleased to know that I’m finished with college for the year.  I handed in my last essay today.  It is a good feeling, even though I am incredibly tired from the mammoth effort I put in last night to get over the line.  I’m pretty happy with myself.  Exhausted at the moment… but pretty happy.

The weekend just gone also featured a team meeting for Junior camp which I’ll be co-directing this summer.  The theme is “The Quest for Treasure Island”.  I’m really looking forward to spending some time with the kids on the camp.  They have such a fresh, unique outlook on life and I’m glad I have the opportunity to invest some time into them.

Both nights found me sitting in the loungeroom at home, becoming mildly annoyed at the thumping bass coming from what I thought was around the block somewhere.  It got to about 10.45pm and my housemate got up complaining that he couldn’t sleep, so I rang the local cop shop to ask them what the go was.  The guy I spoke to told me that the noise I was hearing was coming from the U2 concert at TelstraDome in the city.  Nathan went on Saturday night and he reckons they had the roof open.  I couldn’t believe it.  I just thought it was a bunch of people in a garage around the block.

This part of Melbourne is directly uphill from the city, so there was effectively nothing blocking the sound.  That’s still a fair distance though I reckon.  The cop I spoke to was pretty amused with my response.  I think he’d been fielding complaints all night.  He apologised for the noise.  I said there was no need for that.  What’s a guy in a suburban police station going to do about it?  I just said “Oh righto… I probably won’t buy their next CD then.”  He cracked up.  I guess he’d had a few people ranting at him about it.  So much for CoeXisT Bono.