Hey! Just about to go out collecting for Red Shield. It's SATURDAY MORNING! How I miss the Red Shield Mondays! Oh well...what can you do!?!

So last night I watched the movie Where The Heart Is...how great is that movie? I always forget how good some movies are. It was sooooo good! Anyways just wanted to write something quick before heading out!

I'm SOOOO Tired!

We just got back from a weekend away. We went to lead the meetings at 2 different corps, so half of us went to one in Hannam Vale and some of us went to Taree. I was at the one in Hannam Vale. It was very interesting because we got there on Saturday afternoon and spent the afternoon with their youth group. It was so much fun. Then we all stayed at different people's houses. My friend Myrtle and I stayed with a couple named Elvin and Pamela and their daughter. It was really fun!

Hannam Vale is a small country town. The people that we stayed with lived on a farm and they raise Alpaca's (which are kind of like Llammas) anyway one of the baby alpaca's mother had died and so they are hand feeding her. Her name was Jezebel and Myrtle and I got to come out and help them with the feeding. It was so fun. And then we slept in duvets that were filled with Alpaca wool and they were super warm. We had so much fun! They were teaching me all kinds of "Australian" sayings to take back home with me. Pamela also pointed out that both Myrtle and I were named after flowers! We had never realized that before.

Then this morning we went to Hannam Vale corps which was really good. They had a really great band with guitars, drums, piano and violins. The violins sounded so nice when we sang the song Above All. Then we had lunch with some people from the corps and I had my first taste of Pumpkin Soup. It was so good! I loved it!

Anyways so that was pretty much the excitement for this past weekend. Oh and how could I forget I actually saw Star Wars Episode 3 on friday night. It was actually really good. Although I was told later by a few of the guys that they could have done without me and Myrtle sobbing and crying for half of it. I CAN'T BELIEVE I SAW STAR WARS! I vowed never to do that :( But I made a good deal with one of the leaders at my school...If I watch all like 9 hours or whatever it is of Star Wars, then he'll watch all of Anne of Green Gables...which is about 9 hours too. So everytime I start to think how boring Star Wars is I think of the fact that Matt will have to watch Anne of Green Gables too! Anyways I'm more than halfways done Star Wars now...I just have Episodes 5 & 6 left to finish!

Conflict Resolution

So we just had a class on conflict resolution and it was quite interesting. We had a debate about something and one of the guys was purposely being stubborn and arguing a really male chauvinist way...some of us girls were getting really irritated...but then he told us at break that he was just playing devil's advocate. I was like WHAT?!? you actually let us think you believed THAT?????? It was funny anyways!

So I know that I have not written anything in a while and I will try harder to get things up more, but sometimes I just forget! Or I just dont' have enough time.

My friend Bart is sweet like pie! He is going to start a blog soon!

Back From Melbourne!

Hey Everyone...just got back from visiting Catie in Melbourne! It was so much fun! We did all sorts of stuff. It was great. Cate even bought 2 ducklings while we were there and they are soooooo cute. I was having so much fun I didn't really even want to come home...but I did too! I did miss classes while I was away.

Today was back to normal. We had small groups in the morning and then in the afternoon we had Scripture Teaching class and then started working on our newsletter. So that was fun times! Well...should go get some work done cuz I'm leading a meeting on Sunday and I have to hand in my Order of Service! Good Times!

My Big Lips!

Okay...so anyone who knows me pretty well would know that I get an allergic reation to fish and to Advil...so I haven't had either of those things....yet I HAVE A BIG LIP! So...the only thing that I can figure out is that I must have somehow come into contact with either of those things. Anyways, it is so frustrating and embarrasing cause it looks so stupid! We have a guest speaker this week and I have this stupid big fat lip!

Oh well...it's starting to go down now...and I still get to go to Melbourne on Friday so I have that to look forward to. And besides now that it is going down! It is HILARIOUS! Well...I have to go back to class. We have a class on Spiritual Warfare this afternoon and our guest speaker is really good...so I should be on time!