Christmas in Australia was nothing like Christmas at home. Christmas Eve we had a BBQ outside and ate together then we sang some normal Christmas carols and some Aussie ones too. Christmas Day we woke up and all went to the same church. When church was over we came back to our house and opened gifts from home, stockings and our secret santa gifts. I got a video camera from the Yeos, a Rider t-shirt that is more like a dress, 2 teddy bears, heaps of candy, Tim Hortons Hot Chocolate and an ornament that says dream on it. After gifts, we had a small lunch and then had some fun in the sun. We made a slip and slide in the backyard and played out there all afternoon. Then it started to rain. For Christmas Dinner we had honey glazed ham, turkey, chicken, twice baked potatoes and steamed broccoli and cauliflower. It was amazing. For dessert we had apple crumble, pudding and a few different types of cakes. After dinner and dessert, we had a talent show. It was super funny. On Boxing Day we were supposed to go to a beach, but it was too cold and rainy so instead we watched movies, played ping pong and card games. Overall, it didn’t feel like Christmas at all and still doesn’t feel like it was Christmas. But it was lots of fun and a nice break of rountine.
Only 3 more weeks left in Australia for me, then off to New Zealand!
Sunday, December 27, 2009
Saturday, December 19, 2009
Forgive me...
Hey Guys!
Sorry it’s been so long since I last wrote on here. Things have been pretty busy and the internet has not been a priority. So here’s an update!
So relationships week.. It was a super good week. I learned the difference between putting up walls and placing boundaries, which I believe is super good to know. If you have walls and not boundaries how are you supposed to learn or grow or open up at all, right? Another thing I learned was I will never know what is best for me. Only God does therefore I need to rely on him to show me what is best. I learned not to take friendships for granted. I need to take time to invest in the friendships I know are put in my life because of God.
The week after relationships was evangelism. I didn’t quite enjoy this week. We learned how to evangelize nicely. I didn’t really learn anything new. But during this week, we commissioned the July DTS (commission is graduation). It was lots of fun. We set up, cleaned up, enjoyed the program and got to dress up. Good deal.
This week was lordship. Lordship means making God Lord of your life. So this week we laid down our rights to certain things and we gave things to God to use for His good and not our own pleasure. It was really good and our school really bonded again. We were vulnerable with each other, we cried and we laughed. It was a great week. And we had the best speaker in the whole world, Natalie, our co-leader of our school J.
Next week is Christmas! And we don’t have lectures. We are doing something else for Tuesday and Wednesday which is still to be determined. Then Thursday, Friday and Saturday is our Christmas celebration! Details to follow.
A few weeks ago at Youth Street, I taught dance! We learned some jazz, contemporary, line dancing and break dancing. We have heaps of talent on our dance team staff. It was super fun.
Merry Christmas fellow blog readers! Enjoy the time with family and soak up every moment. Oh yeah, and enjoy the freezing cold weather suckers!
PS Special thanks to my mom and my dad and my sister and my brother and the Yeo’s for the awesome homemade food and the candy. I am so excited to open the gifts! Legit’s from home!!! I love getting mail (hint, hint)...
Sorry it’s been so long since I last wrote on here. Things have been pretty busy and the internet has not been a priority. So here’s an update!
So relationships week.. It was a super good week. I learned the difference between putting up walls and placing boundaries, which I believe is super good to know. If you have walls and not boundaries how are you supposed to learn or grow or open up at all, right? Another thing I learned was I will never know what is best for me. Only God does therefore I need to rely on him to show me what is best. I learned not to take friendships for granted. I need to take time to invest in the friendships I know are put in my life because of God.
The week after relationships was evangelism. I didn’t quite enjoy this week. We learned how to evangelize nicely. I didn’t really learn anything new. But during this week, we commissioned the July DTS (commission is graduation). It was lots of fun. We set up, cleaned up, enjoyed the program and got to dress up. Good deal.
This week was lordship. Lordship means making God Lord of your life. So this week we laid down our rights to certain things and we gave things to God to use for His good and not our own pleasure. It was really good and our school really bonded again. We were vulnerable with each other, we cried and we laughed. It was a great week. And we had the best speaker in the whole world, Natalie, our co-leader of our school J.
Next week is Christmas! And we don’t have lectures. We are doing something else for Tuesday and Wednesday which is still to be determined. Then Thursday, Friday and Saturday is our Christmas celebration! Details to follow.
A few weeks ago at Youth Street, I taught dance! We learned some jazz, contemporary, line dancing and break dancing. We have heaps of talent on our dance team staff. It was super fun.
Merry Christmas fellow blog readers! Enjoy the time with family and soak up every moment. Oh yeah, and enjoy the freezing cold weather suckers!
PS Special thanks to my mom and my dad and my sister and my brother and the Yeo’s for the awesome homemade food and the candy. I am so excited to open the gifts! Legit’s from home!!! I love getting mail (hint, hint)...
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