Sorry!

Hey everyone,

I apologize for being such a terrible blogger.  Most of the time I forget I even have a blog, and the other times I just get distracted and/or am too lazy to write lol.  But I'll try to be better from now on.  It's been over a month since I've written, but for most of that time I don't have much to report.  Classes are going alright; they can be very frustrating at times, but I'm taking comfort in the fact that I technically only have to pass them--my grades here won't affect my GPA back home.  I'm still trying to do well, but it takes the pressure off.

When I'm not in class I'm usually reading, at the gym, hanging out with people, or playing ping pong.  They have a ping pong table in the common room, and I swear that game never gets boring to me.  There's quite a few people that enjoy playing, so we have fun competing against each other:)  I've started doing yoga and pilates classes.  My body gets so tight and inflexible, so I'm trying to work on that while I'm here because the classes are free!  It's definitely very hard for me, but hopefully it will start to get easier soon.  I'm going to miss the gym here when I go home.  It's an awesome facility and they have lots of personal trainers on staff that answer your questions and give you free consultations every few weeks.  Although, I have a pretty awesome trainer back home (love you mom!) :).

Definitely one of my favorite things in Australia is Hillsong Church.  I've gotten to know some of the people that go to Hillsong College, and some that just attend the church weekly.  I've even started volunteering for Hillsong!  It's a pretty small thing--I carry around trays of food for people to eat after the services when everyone stands around and talks--but I'm just doing what I can and trying to let God use me in whatever way He wills.  I've started going to a weekly small group as well.  My group's leader is named Lillian, and she is really sweet:)  Last Friday was one of my favorite days at Hillsong.  It was Good Friday, so we didn't have classes, and I went into the city to attend the Good Friday service at the Sydney Entertainment Center. It was awesome!  We had a long period of awesome worship, and Michael W. Smith sang:)  I'm so sad I missed Easter Sunday at Hillsong.  I bet it was awesome.  Reinhardt Bonnke was preaching.  I'm going to see if someone has a recording of it that I could watch.

After the service, I went with some girls I met that day to Paddy's Market.  It's a huge market that sells a ton of touristy type souvenirs and other small goods.  I tried to find some good things to bring home:)  After a while it got really overwhelming though.  There are so many people and so much stuff for sale..and it was really hot.  We were exhausted when we got done.  We cooled off with a 30 cent ice cream cone from McDonalds (or Maccas, as they call it here) and went home.

That's pretty much what I've been up to for the last month or so!  Just studying and enjoying myself:)  Nothing too big, until right now....