Thursday, February 21, 2008
Hi everyone!! I'm SO SO MUCH BETTER now!! I've been meeting new people and i'm having a blast!! haha! God has been AMAZING!! He's been bringing me new friends every single day and i'm just so thankful! I've made a really good friend here in e hostel! She's really great and really easy to talk to! and we go running in e mornings! oh! and yesterday night i had a tv-ice cream night with her and another girl! we just ate alot of junk while watching The Biggest Loser and then we felt so guilty about it! haha! yea and in school i finally got e chance to meet the people in my group!! And they're fantastic people! oh oh! ok so the night before last i was chatting to Karyn online and she tells me that there's a girl named yeni in trinity and asked me if i'd met her and well i hadn't. then e next morning i went for this computer thing where only my group people would be and i didn't know anyone! AND they printed the wrong add to get to the place so i got a bit lost. then I found this girl from china named yan who was coincidentally lost and in my gp too so i walked with her! (God is so good!!) then i got to the class and i sit down with her and then another girl sits beside me a while later then we talk a bit and she tells me her name is yen and i tell her i'm from crescent and she goes oh oh! you know karyn?? SO YES! it was her yeni!! haha! and then i meet another girl in my gp who was from AC last year too!! everyday's been really tiring but fun and i'm just so so thankful! God's really assuring me that He will provide and He has been so much!! For some reason i keep thinking that surely at some point all these blessings will stop or at least decrease.. i mean God's given me so much already! But then God reminds me that His blessings will never stop flowing and He will always give us more than we expect! :) My song for this season! :
My God is so big, so strong so mighty,
My god is so good, so good to me
He's my God and He is my refuge,
He's the Rock on which I stand
He's my fortress, God He is my life,
He holds the oceans in His hands!!
There's nothing my God cannot do!
There's nothing my God cannot do! =D
God has really been getting me through all of this, providing me friends and rest and fun and I just wnt to take this time to thank EVERY single person who's been praying for me i appreciate it so much! God has blessed me so so much I can't even express it in words! my homesickness lasted for like what, one day?? that just doesn't happen!! haha! But God has been my comfort and my friend. God is good, ALL the time =)
Child of God;
7:04 PM
As requested. pics of my room! :D
Nur saffiah and I cooked dinner last night can you believe it! and it was gooooddd :) we made pasta and mashed potatoes and salad! =)
Child of God;
4:12 AM
Sunday, February 17, 2008
heyyy! so.. my first night without mom in e hostel turned out to be really sucky!! I just had nothing to do with myself cause i didn't feel like reading, the tv is always hogged by someone else and the internet was working last night! i managed to cry and talk to God though and realised that I've GOT to learn to depend on God not on my mom or myself or my friends. Though it's so much easier to type than to actually do. I had a really early night last night cause I simply had nothing to do.. tried to sleep at 930 but it was physically impossible! not that i wasn't tired or anything i was exhausted but it was so HOT. so i opened the windows, and well it didn't help much cause of e netting and plus it was so so NOISY. my room is right beside a road you see so i know exactly at what point someone is crossing the street cause of e noisy traffic lights and when a tram has come.. so basically i didn't get much sleep at all despite my 'early' night.. but well enough complaining from me! I still haven't made many friends here at e hostel, and school is beginning to be my sanctuary which is really strange. At least there everyone's willing and trying to make friends. Here, everyone already has.. okok GOOD thing : the garden here is a really good place to do my quiet time!! it's really peaceful and no one ever comes so it's easy to talk to God! IT's kinda nice to have my own room too i guess. it's small but it's mine and that's nice to know. well well i gotta start leaving for school now. i'll post more another time and let's hope it's a bit more pleasant then :P
Child of God;
1:11 PM
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
heyyy! blogging from down under :)! Yesterday was a good day so i'm quite happy now! but i'm also having to face the fact that school starts tomorrow and i'll have to start making friends all over again :P But anyway we'll get to that stuff later! Firstly, we're cold but safe. The first day we came it was really really cold so we didn't have very high hopes for this supposed summer season but then it got better.. actually started feeling hot the next few days! We really didn't do much house hunting on the weekend cause everything's closed but we had lots of options to look at so on monday we were quite overwhelmed.. I think we just weren't used to the culture here of walking cause we're just so used to hailing a cab to get to wherever we need to be if we're lost. cab fares are crazy here though so we ended up walking a whole lot when we only visited one or 2 places that day.. But we continued our hunt yesterday and PRAISE THE LORD we found one! :) It was the first one we visited that day. It's called Madre Nazarena. It's a catholic hostel (if i can call it that:P) and it's run by nuns. It's an all-girls hostel, I get my own room but I can still interact with the others cause there's a communal kitchen and toilet and the place is so CLEAN! and so orderly! the fridge has different compartments for the different rooms so you can store your own food without it getting eaten! Breakfast and dinner are provided every weekday and on the weekends we'll have to cook our own food. so i better start learning to cook cause it's just way too expensive to eat out.. each meal is around 7-9 dollars which is a whole lot of money! so anyway before we saw this place in the morning we were using directions which i'd tirelessly written down in my mom's important notebook to get there and so we eventually got to the tram stop and got off.. without the notebook! yes. i left it on the tram! and i honestly was so so shocked cause i just didn't remember what i did with it at all! I didn't even remember putting it on the seat or anything! well anyway we were both really sad and angry with me and we had to figure out a way to get to all the places we needed to be after that.. and so we took trams and walked and walked and walked only to find that the next hostel had no room and that we didn't have much energy left to keep looking. anyway we decided in the end that my losing the note book
was divine intervention! haha! ok maybe not. but I'm sure God still used it to show us that Madre Nazarena was the place He wanted me to live in. oh ya oh ya! when we were trying to find our way around without the notebook we were just getting more and more confused cause we had no idea where we were going then i realised i hadn't once prayed, and although it was mostly out of utter desperation i prayed and God answered. He led us, though on a long journey, all the way to the next hostel.. It was really God who showed us how to use the map because honestly both my mom and i are bad with maps! Anyway God's been blessing us greatly and i'm really happy about the hostel.. scared, but happy :) so i just wanna take this time to thank EVERYONE who's been praying for me for this trip and everyone who's just supported me through this 'journey' :P School's starting soon and i'm finally getting a little excited about it (yes anita akka it's true! :)) There's still a lot of things to buy and a lot of moving to do (cause we're currently staying quite far from the hostel) and a lot of people to miss :P but God's been giving me the energy to do it and I just feel so blessed! I have more to say but i gotta go get ready to go out for some breakfast now so i'll update again soon promise!! definitely more than once a month again :P love all you guys and miss you all A WHOLE LOT! have a g'day maties! (sorry i just can't help it) :D
Child of God;
1:07 PM
