I'm baccccccckkkkkkkk!!
Did you miss me?
Yeah, don't answer that....
Well... I had the most amazing two weeks in the Outback.
Lemme tell you....
Just forewarning this will probably be long and have one too many pictures, but it's my blog. I do what I want. So shut up and read it.
Hehehe.
But I will warn you that this blog will be all over the place with information on my adventures in the outback. I hope you can somehow comprehend my craziness.
So yeah, here are some videos!
On our way up to Hidden Valley. Very windy and car sickening ride.
Here is when we first made it! So many cows and so much poop everywhere!!
Here is a look at where I lived for two weeks!!
Oh and p.s. that mirror broke instantly. So I went two weeks without seeing what I looked like. It was awesome. Thank You Jesus
Oh yes and if you didn't hear me right the rule was if it is yellow let it mellow, if it is brown flush it down. Meaning if you went pee you didn't flush, if you went poop you did flush. So we basically knew when everyone took a poop. Yup, this YWAM fam is a little too comfortable about our bodily functions. Hahah oh yeah and we had to put our pee wipes in the trash can, but the poopy ones we could flush. Hahahah. TMI? I think not.
Heheh, so I decided to take a selfies of myself everyday for the whole two weeks. You can see me getting tanner, bushier eyebrows, and pimples spread across face, but that smile never once left.
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Here is what I called home for two weeks with my two tent mates. (Megan and Rachel) We had to stuff everything in that tiny tent and cause I'm obviously the shortest it was all on my side. Good thing I can manage to sleep in tiny ball. I slept rather well in that tent! I had an air mattress thingy. A couple of days I woke up drooling and you know you're sleeping well if you are drooling. And then one night I woke up and I was just rubbing Rachel's back. It was a pretty funny moment I might add. Hahahahah, oh goodness. I love my tent mates. We had some good nights in that tent.
So yeah.I almost went a full week without showering, but then people kept telling me it was gross and someone told me that they thought my hair was wet, but it was actually just that greasy. And I also happened to smell myself once and I smelt like a wet dog, so I figured I probably should. Whoops. #sorrynotsorry
Oh yeah and I went barefoot like all over the place! Talk about dirty-az feet. Goodness. Yes, but in all I took four showers in two weeks. I could have managed with doing three, but I hurt myself one day from running and had to wash the blood off of me.
So the first couple of nights I was there I got bitten up pretty badly. I looked like a drug addict with all the bug bites I had. They were all over me and it was so itchy. But I sorted out the problem, I had ants in my tent!! So I went on a cleaning spree and cleaned that sucker out. After that the ants knew I meant business and from that moment forward I never got bit again! Praise Jesus!
So yes. The days there were freakin' hot. I'm talking like I had butt sweat it was so hot. But then the nights were nice and cool. It was a crazy difference. I got to wear pants, SOCKS AND HATS, and my flannel for the first time ever. So I basically looked like a hobo all week. Definitely made some fashion no-no's. Tehehe. And I didn't even bring a weeks worth of clothes, so I did bunches of re-wearing stinky-az clothes.
Thank you Lord! AH! It was so good! And we had fires every night... mmmm I wish I was back!
Here is a glimpse of the fashion no-no's I made. LOLZ!
DIDN'T CAREEEEEEE. Which makes me happy we didn't have mirrors. I just didn't care. Yet, I still knew that I was beautiful. Mist all the greasiness, ratty hair, pimples, and not plucking my eyebrows for two weeks. But heavens, lemme tell you. When I got back I went straight to a mirror, LOLed at myself, and plucked the heck out of those suckers.
Here is some of the awesome fires we had!! I loved smelling like fire. BEST SMELL EVERRRRRR.
We gotta watch a movie by the fire!
AND OH MY GOSH! PEOPLE!!! YOU GUYS... THE STARS... OH MY FREAKIN' HEAVENS. IT WAS SO BEAUTIFUL!!! STARS WERE EVERYWHERE!!!! EEEEE. IT WAS MESMERIZING!!
And lots of nights we had worship outside, which was just probably the greatest thing ever. Outside, by the fire, with the stars splattered across the sky. What more could you want?!
Mmmmm, so yeah. We ate sooooo much at camping. Like five meals a day. Cray-Cray.
1. Brekky
2.Tea time
3. Lunch
4.Dinner
5.Supper (which is dessert)
I love it here cause all we do is eat. Omm nommm.
Oh yeah, we had tea and "coffee" (instant coffee, which isn't coffee) Milo(which is basically hot chocolate.. but better) and we had powdered milk. Nastiest thing ever. But I managed. Couldn't go without my coffee.
Oh yeah, so we still had work placements we all had to do. We had one week on, one week off. I had work duties the first week and my job was to cut apples and oranges for morning tea. Not too bad. Great break from having to do dishes for two hours!!
Then after I got finished with that I got some nice alone time! Ep! So good to just be able to sit by myself and have some quality time with God.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm babbling. I'm sorry.
MMMMM... so everyday during lunch we had "Battle Buddies"... in my own definition it was like a blind date. We just ate and talked with the person we were assigned too. It was quite good! Getitng to talk to people I don't normally get to talk to. Yup, yup, yup!
OH YEAH! The spiders here are freakin' ridiculous. Huge. My fear of those tiny-az spiders we have back in the states is nothing compared to what is here down unda.
Check it out.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!
Oh yeah! So there was this gorge thingy we went to a couple of times! It was totes fun! It smelt bad and it was slippery and there was tons of algae and tons of rocks you would hit yourself on, but it was nice and cool to go in on a hot day.
SOOO PRETTY! Lalalalalalala
Oh yeah! I did some pretty hard-az workouts while camping. It was so difficult especially during the heat of the day, but I felt amazing afterwards. Then one day I went running and at the end of it I started to pick the pace up a wittle and then didn't manage to see this huge rock and just ate it. My hands and arm got all scrapped up. But, it was rather funny. I went back to try and find where I fell and you could just see this tiny little hand print in the dirt. Hahaha so funny. One of my friends saw it. She said she saw all three of us running and then there was this big bush and then all she saw was two people. Hahahaha. of course I was the one to just wipe out. I don't understand how I didn't see that rock there. It was huge! Hahah, I crack myself up sometimes.
The boo-boo's on my hands don't look like much, but let me tell you, those suckers hurt! I couldn't clap for like the whole rest of the week and just doing anything with my hands just hurt. I toughed it out though.
Ouchy!
Oh yes and then we had to wash our clothes with just water and the laundry detergent we brought. I was rather proud of myself for doing so and I was so happy to wear clean clothes, but then it rained, so my clothes were wet. But once they dried I was happy! They still smelt bad, but not as bad as they once were.. they were still bad smelling. But when I got back to base I fully realized how awful myself and my clothes smelt. It was like a mixture between fire smoke and sweat.
Here is Megan and I cleaning our clothes! We thought it didn't do much, but the water was like black when we finished, so we figured it did something.
Oh! So during the whole two weeks we were all placed into groups and it was called "Good Morning God" where we all just spoke on something. Each group spoke on something amazing, and it was good to get the students to speak on something rather than the staff. My group spoke on unity. We did such a good job I thought! Each group did! Hehe, I'm so proud of my DTS.
But yeah! Here is my Good Morning God group! I love dem
So fun getting to learn from them. We really all worked so well together! God is so good! Hahah
Ah, so every day we woke up at 6:30 by some sort of song blaring. It was awesome! Then we had brekky, then alone time, then lectures. The first week the staff spoke. They each spoke on something different, but it was all so good! I gained more respect and appreciation for all of them. I learned that week what my love languages are and what my spiritual gifts are. WOOT WOOT!
Then on Saturday and Sunday we got to sleep in a little later, but it was so hard too cause it got really hot, so I usually just got up around 7a.m.ish.
So then on the second week we had lectures on Lordship. Such an amazing week! The guy we had was a crazy guy! Loved him! We all picked up on his funny mannerisms "Shutup!" "Glory!" "Thank You Jesus!" "Amen/Awomen". But really. I learned a lot from him. I got more into worship, even when I didn't feel like it and I got more into hearing God! Thursday and Friday were some difficult, but good days for all of us. Thursday night we had like a worshipy night and I was in a bad mood, but I got it all out by talking to some of my friends, Praise Jesus for them! Then that helped me for Friday where we trekked up a mountain and had a little worship service up there!
EP! And on our way up there I found this heart rock! I had asked God for one the night before and He gave me one!!!! I was one happy girl.
Here we are atop the mountain! Such a good day!!
Yup, so the rest of the day we were just all up in worshiping Jesus. We went pretty late into the night. Well actually that happened a couple of times that week. But it was really good! Very refreshing week. I have such a deeper relationship with God. Yeeee!
Oh yeah and then during Friday afternoon we all had the option to go up and just say a few things/get some things out and some people gave things away and someone very special to me gave me her purity ring. I freakin' lost it when she gave it to me. I shall now forever wear it until the day some Man of God puts another one on it. But as for now. I am married to God. Heheh. I am His bride! I love it and it really means a lot to me. And it's a good constant reminder.
Yesh, yesh, yesh. Ahhhh, so my nose got infected while I was there. One of the nose rings I had came out and when I tried to put it back in I guess I irritated it and it wouldn't go back in so I had to put like an earring stud in it.And it got all swollen and it oozed a wittle bit. It sucked, but it's getting better! Soz dad... I ain't taking these "boogers" out just yet. Hehehe
Oh yeah and everyone back home, be jealous. I got one rad tan. I think this is the tannest I have ever been. It's funny though cause it's like only my face, arms, and somewhat of my legs. I got some pretty funny lookin' tan lines. Hahahah
Oh yeah and here is one last video. Check it out yoooooo
Yeah, so when I got back I didn't know how to function and all I wanted was chocolate and coffee. Being on the computer was rather difficult for me I don't know why. Then I went out to the mall and it was just weird seeing all these cars and just seeing all these people. I looked like a wreck. Bahaha. My eyebrows had never been bushier! IT WAS CRAY CRAY! But yeah, I cleaned all my clothes and my room looks like an explosion cause stuff is still all over the place. I'll get around to cleaning it up soon.... hopefully.
But yeah.. when I got back I was in a pissy mood cause I was tired, but that's no excuse, so I'm sorry to everyone. But yeah, so I took a freakin' long nap before I had to go and work in YouthStreet Live. It was rather difficult to do cause I was still so tired, but then once it was over I took a much needed shower then went to bed AND I SLEPT IN TILL 9:30a.m.!!!! PRAISE JESUS. AHH IT WAS SO MUCH NEEDED! I skipped brekky and lunch making so I could sleep in. Then I went to the strand with a few others cause this is like our last free day for a very long time.
CAUSE WE BE GOING ON OUR MINI OUTREACH THIS WEEKKKKK!!! WUDDUPPP!!!!!!!!! YAYAYAYAYAY.
My outreach group is going to Cairns(sounds like cans you AmeriCANS, hehehe see what I did there?!) where we will be going to a homeless shelter for boys and serving them. I'm so excited!! God is gonna do some crazy stuff. I'll be back at base for like a day to celebrate Christmas. But then I go straight back. AHHH! Christmas! I am so excited!!! But I am so sad I am missing out on Christmas with my family. That will be really difficult... but just you wait guys... I got something in store for you all! Probably won't make it there on time for Christmas, but just you wait!! Heheheh. We have a "secret santa" woot! I'm excited, but I feel bad for the person who has me cause I have like no money to be spending, I'm really sorry person. But hey! If any of you wanna send me money, I'll love you forever.
Oh yes! And when I got back I had THREE LETTERS!!! YEEE I WAS SO HAPPY!!!!! Thank you family for sending me birthday letters and thank you Hadley for just being awesome and sending me that sweet note. I'll try and reply to you asap! I LOVE YOU ALL SO MUCH!!
I really hope I'm not forgetting anything. I just gave you a brief summary of all that went on these past two weeks. But they were a rather life changing two weeks for me.
I'M JUST SO HAPPYYYYYY, YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAY! But hey, if you do happen to want to know more in depth about my past two weeks I would love to tell you. Email or Facebook me. I will give you all my notes and just tell you more personally all that happened. I would love to share!
Plus give you some rad worship songs to worship to and stuff.
Yeah, so I think I have told you all everything I wanted. I've got a really busy week this week. I have lectures over relationships this week, I have a ton of work to do, and I have to prepare for my first outreach. If any of you wanna catch up with me, please do! I don't have long till I won't have much contact with everyone.
Well, I love and miss you all so, so much! Hope you all are doing well. God bless each and everyone of you!
PEACEEEEEEEEEEEEE
