Colin: is he just full of hot air?

My other hot air (Stirling) engine in action!

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stirling_engine and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_air_engine .

Your Essay Topic assignment for Sunday: "It has been argued that the indiscriminate use of the hypothetical Carnot cycle in many standard books on engineering thermodynamics has done a disservice to the study of Stirling engines in general." Discuss.

1000 words. On my desk at the BEGINNING of class. Marks deducted if you have obviously worked on it during Sacrament Meeting.

And those who weren't in class last Sunday, and are going "huh?" Those who WERE in class can gain extra credit by blogging here a recap of the lesson!

:)

Bollywood Beauties

Being blessed with our very culturally diverse half-indian, half-chinese YSA from Malaysia, we could not pass up the opportunity to learn a few bollywood-style moves from Denisha! (pictured above centre). The evening began with some pizza and watching selections from Bride and Prejudice, followed by a display of Denisha's jewellery.

Followed by getting out the moisturiser to get a few bangles off Maz's wrist, followed by the accidental breakage of a bangle by one anonymous Rebekah from the ward.

Once we were ready to get the dancing underway, Denisha began to teach the new bollywood beauties the moves of her personally choreographed dance. We were a little unsure of our abilities at first, but soon got the hang of it and found it pretty fun.

In about an hour we had the whole thing down pat so we performed it to the Prebble family! Scotty, who was the only guy brave enough to come, did an excellent job as photographer and finally enjoyed a rest in his director's chair.

Then came my favourite part, trying on Denisha's beautiful sari! Pictured below are the new Indian Princesses: Fi, Bek, Maz, Jess and Rachel. Thanks Denisha for sharing your culture and talents with us =D

Murder on the Dance Floor

What seemed to be an innocent night of dancing soon turned into a crime-scene investigation, as one small, egg-shaped body was found injured right under the basketball hoop. The apparent victim of a violent crime was surrounded by scattered lollies when police happened upon the scene. Though called quickly, much of the evidence had disappeared by the time authorities arrived. The victim has now be positively identified as a Mr Dumpty.

Lucky the Rosny ward was there to keep the party going! There was an outstanding array of costumes, firstly there was the beautiful Emily as the King of Spain's daughter, Erin with THE coolest hair, as Mother Goose (pay particular attention to the shoes), Fashionable Fiona with her amazing SELF-MADE costume as the Queen of Hearts, Beautiful Bek as the Farmer's Wife, and "Razzle Dazzle" as a twinkling little star!! Well done guys! Sadly the crime-scene photographer didn't do a good job of getting ALL the evidence of Rosny ward's attendance...sorry Bek and Fi, my bad! Luckily she knows how to redeem herself by poaching photos off facebook! Ha-HA!

The faith the move mountains

With the sad absence of our Sunday School teacher due to shingles, the Rosny ward YSA gathered in the somewhat drafty Sunday School room, mainly to acknowledge the presence of Lewis, the newest Stake rep who was gracing us with his presence. In light of this cause, Maz decided to teach her first impromptu lesson. The topic? Sharing the gospel, of course!

After discussing that the very purpose of sharing the gospel comes back to the atonement of the Saviour and the plan of salvation and God's purpose for his children, we talked about some ways we can share the gospel. FiFi made the excellent suggestion of starting by being an example, and Scotty then high-lighted the importance of speaking up about our beliefs and its role in our lives. Libby commented that people often just don't get why she doesn't drink, like it's some kind of bizarre concept. We discussed that its usually more powerful or memorable to give the reason that it's part of our beliefs, more so than just being good for our health or wellbeing. There was plenty of input throughout the class by those present, especially Anthony. Maz shared her experience of not speaking up to a very new aquaintance in Estonia and her repentance that followed thereafter, and her hope that this young man will be led to find out some other way she doesn't drink because she's a Mormon! The last thought discussed was that of faith - having the faith that miracles can happen and that the people that we know and wish could have the blessings of the gospel may just desire to learn and accept the gospel, if we are brave enough to open our mouths. So let us go forth, for the field is white already to harvest, and we would like some YSA baptisms in Rosny!