So you could say I've had a busy week.

For any of you that really know me, know that I'm quite the morning person. And for those of you who don't know me that well, that was some extreme sarcasm. Waking up at 630 every morning to ensure I get a hot shower has definitely solidified the fact that I still really hate mornings. 630? Really? No one should have to wake up that early for ANY reason. But I wake up that early because my hatred for cold showers overrides my hatred for mornings. So, it looks like I'll be waking up at 630 on weekdays for the next 3 months. Yay! God's already using the smallest things to stretch me. Which I'm totally okay with!

So after I wake up at 630, shower, and get ready for the day, I walk downstairs and eat a breakfast that usually consists of cereal and maybe some toast. And tea, lots of tea. They're crazy tea drinkers here. Some Americans living here are coffee drinkers, so I'll have an occasional french press cup of coffee. That's always comforting and somehow makes me feel a little more at home. Love it. After breakfast we have "tidy time" which is 20 minutes of a whole-house cleaning. Pretty cool if you think about it, and it makes it so much easier for the maintenance people here. After tidy time, we get to the fun part.. lectures! Lectures have been so amazing already and we've only had a few. It's crazy to think how much I've learned in just a week of being here. I love it though! We have lectures till about 1pm and then it's lunch time. After lunch, I have free time until "work duties" at 345. My work duty is helping make dinner. It's seriously so much fun! I can't believe I haven't been cooking much back home. (Besides the occasional cooking class with Charlene!) Dinner is at 530, and after that we usually have some kind of activity until 9. And then I become a grandma and go to bed shortly thereafter. So I've strangely transformed into more of a morning person than a night person. But not by choice. Weekends here are extremely chill. Since we help out with the youth ministry on Saturdays, our weekend is Sunday and Monday. And that consists of eating lots of bread (which might possibly be the death of me), junk food, drinking tea, and watching  movies in your sweats. Like I said, extremely chill. Love it!

I have been seriously slacking on the whole taking pictures thing here, sorry! No worries though, I'll try to step up my game here shortly. Until then, here's a measly few to hold you over.. Enjoy! For those of you who have instagram, I'm sorry because you'll probably have already seen these pictures.  And please don't judge, because I'm not a photographer! Miss you all back home, but I'm enjoying life here so much!
Much love xoxo

My first real-life Koala! And now I want one..

Korean Church with Kimichi after.. so awesome!

Hair dying fun!

So essssited!

TimTams will eventually make me fat. So. Stinkin. Good.

Life As I Know It

Hi friends!
I'm here! Yay! I feel like I have been so disconnected from everything theses past few days because I've had no access to technology.

Which in a way, is kind of awesome.

But! Not awesome because I miss talking to everyone!
When I arrived on Monday, the first thing I asked for was a shower. And boy was it hot. That's when I knew I really loved this place. There's nothing that puts me in a better mood than a hot shower. Actually, there's nothing that puts me in a terrible mood like a cold shower. So for these hot showers, I am thankful.

Everyone here is so nice! And they are from all over the world. Pretty awesome. I have 5 people on my DTS plus 3 leaders. A girl from Newcastle (my roommate), a "kiwi" (someone from New Zealand), a boy from Germany (yay, I'll be able to speak dutch!), and a guy from Brooksville, Florida (represent!). My two staff are girls from the states and my leader is an Aussie guy.They're pretty awesome.

There's a creative DTS here at the same time. They have 6 people in their DTS and we do most of our lectures with them in the morning. And then there's some people here doing secondary schools (schools for which you have to complete a DTS), and then a ton of other staff. So there's a wide variety of people here, and that's so awesome! There's always someone new to talk to and find out their story. Pretty cool.

This week is orientation week, so we haven't gotten into too much material yet. Yesterday morning we had base worship and that was so awesome! The leaders kind of layed out what they wanted for this next season, and it sounds like some pretty exciting things are going to happen! I'm so excited!

The time difference is crazy. I'm in the future! Skyping home is probably going to be pretty difficult. It's either going to be late at night or early in the morning for either of us. But I'm sure we'll make it work. I haven't been able to because of one small problem: the outlets here don't fit American plugs. Yaaaay! So now I need converters for my plugs, and I have yet to get those. So once I do, I can hopefully Skype you people!

I'm so excited for these next 12 weeks! I ask for prayer for openness to whatever God wants to show  me and teach me, because that's the reason I'm here. I know my life as I know it will never be the same. And I am so ready for that!