Welcome to Australia

I have been in Australia for nearly a week now, and I am just now finding time to blog. Whoops!

So far I have fallen in love with this country and its people. My host dad is Greek and my host mom is Australian- the two are very different and I am quite certain we have the most unique homestay family out of our group of 27. Our host mom, Marina, loves to make sure we are okay all of the time. Beeca (my roommate) and I have already started recording funny quotes/mannerisms of Marina. My favorite so far is her method for washing dishes, basically dunking them in water and removing rubish with your fingers, rinsing, and drying.

I just got done with my first day of classes. I have ballet and jazz technique in the a.m. and then hip hop at noon. The classes are a lot of fun, but the ballet is quite challenging with my lack of experience. The dress code for ballet is requiring a leotard buying run later this afternoon.

I have neglected my camera since I have been here...photos to come later!

The Land of OZ

Tomorrow I depart for the land of Oz. I am very excited for the arrival, and a little less excited about the flying. These pictures help me understand that it is much better on the other side

Ooroo mates!

Superimposing

Mom pulled out her wedding dress and it fit me like a glove. It felt way to strange, and things got even more strange when we got out the camera.....

After I tried on her dress and Maddy tried on her dress, we wanted to see who looked the most like her. Here is the result of finding the original and superimposing the rest:

Randoms

Last mini-project: light graffiti - a slight fail after the awesomeness I found online

Current location: Panera in Huntington, WV


Current prayer/line love: "I pray that God will show me and all of us the limits of our understanding." (said at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C. by President Obama- full Relevant article here)

I am spending the weekend with my splendid friend Lauren Wright. Today we ventured to West Virginia for a Beauty Control meeting she had. I get to chill at Panera and the mall until she is done. Tonight she is taking me to a new restaurant. I'm pretty stoked. Today I will have been in Ohio, West Virginia, and Kentucky- oh the excitement of living in the Tri-state area!

I've been catching up on news and other randoms while sitting here and I found the article on Obama's speech at the National Prayer Breakfast written by Cameron Strang. I really liked the line above and it struck me as something I need to be praying. For how often do I pray as if to understand the mystery that God is working in my life? Often. We are always trying to figure out God's will, understanding like this is an understatement in the realms of the heavenly. I think the beautiful mystery of Christ's work in our lives is not always meant for us to probe for perfect clarity, it is our job to live the parts we do know. We do know God revealed the mystery of the Gospel to us (Romans 11:25), and we are to live that part out in the fullest. But we don't always feel like we can trace his hand while living out that gospel... we can trust his heart.

I have a great blogpost to come so stay tuned for a pretty funny project I have been working on.

16 days till Australia!