Settling in!

hello everyone!!

so it is finally blog time! I have been waiting all week trying to write down all I need to write in this blog. I want to do one blog every sunday for you all so you have a full week of updates! Hopefully I can be better at it this time then in Africa.... One thing I will do the same I will categorize things with little headers so you can read them and if there is something you dont care about you can skip because this is likely going to be a long one.. so lets do this! 

SETTLING IN......

so when I first arrived here my first thoughts were crap, I really made a mistake with this one.. It was my first impressions because it is huge castle and it seemed that everyone had already made life long friends together.. and every person that I had hungout with on the bus to the school ditched me the moment we walked into the school! so I kind of felt like a gold fish in the atlantic ocean lets say.. it was scary! .. When I first met my roomies as well i wasn't sure if i was going to get along with them well or not.. it was all very blurry I was hanging out with different people for every meal and service so I wasn't sure where I belonged or if i belonged at all.. but that was short lived thanks to some intense prayer on my end and I know my mom was bringing herself right up to the pearly gates with her prayers for me! and now at this very moment I am feeling right at home! I am so comfortable here, I have found my place in this school and were i belong in all this mess! I have found close friends and am meeting so many new people every day! I love it here!! If someone offered me a teleport machine i would not go home.. i would just teleport my family to me here! It is so wonderful here and i feel like i am in the midst of god's plan for my life ! everything here feels right it sits with me very well and all those times of second guessing if i really heard God right when he called me here are so gone because i know for sure i am right where he wants me! Its an amazing feeling!! I can feel all of your guy's prayer wrapped around me in all i do i feel it so i thank you all for that!!!

GOD'S WORK.....

so.. me and God mean business while im here.. i am learning so much about him.. I was thinking for a while between growing up in church and then Africa i pretty much knew all the mushy mushy about God but while im here he is really changing my know it all attitude and proving to me that daily i can learn more about him i will never know enough about him! he is forever working in me.. it is amazing !! I have never felt as close to god as i do here.. i feel that i go to sleep at night at his feet i just feel him all around me in every step i take! it is an amazing feeling!!

CLASSES....

wow.. i could finish this blog off with that.. because that is what they are.. WOW!  we have 6 lectures a day 45 minutes each spread through the day. and my goodness i can't sleep at night because i am so excited to wake up at 6am and go learn some more! i can't get enough of these classes every time they say '' ill just wrap up'' a little voice inside me goes NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!! don't stop i cant wait another day to hear more!!!! hahahahahaha it sounds so lame but i am so enjoying everything they are teaching me.. this is what i came here for.. my teachers are so honest and real and legit and not afraid to say it how it is.. they dont tip toe around anything! its amazing ! they say all the things everyone is thinking about christianity that no one has the guts to say! they get your mind thinking they dont help you think out of the box they pick you up and throw you out side of it! haha! its incredible !! they are so smart and educated and god led its really a blessing sitting and listening to them teach me!! we had on saturday a session on worship.. and she had us all close our eyes in silence as she read us REV 4:2-11 sentence by sentence slowly and waited after every sentence to allow us to picture it and put us in heaven for a moment! there wasnt a dry eye in the place! it was incredible! what a feeling!! Today for church they also had us all close our eyes and the preacher had a letter he felt God wanted him to read to us. so with our eyes closed he slowly read it to us.. i was balling!! i felt like God was standing in front of me! he was reading things that i needed to hear.. during worship i was battling with insecurities and the pastor addressed and corrected every insecurity i was feeling during worship in that letter! i was balling!! it was incredible!! it amazes me on a daily how God works!! Our task now is to finish chapter of genesis. we will be reading a book in the old testiment once a week and then new so i will have read the whole bible when i leave this castle! so i am very much looking forward to that as well!

SOCIAL......

so the social part of the school! we all have '' duties'' so we are assigned something to do for cleaning and we have that task for 3 weeks and then it changes and on though the year so this three weeks i have dish drying duty after lunches. so it is actually a blast i do it with amazing people and we plug in our ipods and turn drying dishes into the ultimate high school musical/camp rock dance party.. best part is the person giving us those songs is guys hHAHAHAHAHAH it is a blast.. we also have interactive groups so we meet with them weekly for a bible study and someone in the group is assigned the devo so mine is in december.. also we have '' family groups'' so a small group and you get a mother and a father and you meet every wednesday for a bible study and also 4 fridays in this 6 months and we do fun family night things, so this friday we had our first so we played so many fun silly games at our mom's house and we made crepes and pigged out and played and laughed it was so fun!! also here we have a lounge and so there is always people in there playing dutch blits and spoons and the name game and so on, and we have a sports hall with pool and ping pong so there is always ultimate ping pong games happening in there! we also have something caled the loop.. i uploaded photos on facebook of the scenery its a nice 35 min walk through fields and hills and just beauty and eventually you lead back were you were so its a full circle so we call it the loop.. so we always walk it in groups and sometimes alone and a lot of people run it as well its nice!! and for anyone who knows me well i have found my group of girls who love ONE DIRECTION .. so we had the ultimate one direction party in the big girls room this morning while getting ready for church ahah so much fun! 

MEALS......

so the food here is just random.. its not weird because it is all food we have at home it is just in random combos.. like chili and rice.. and salad and scalop potatoes .. and ham and cream of brocoli soup.. like it is just random! also here your lunch is your big hot meal. so we eat huge lunches and then like a sandwich or soup for dinner.. or salad.. and here they dont call it dinner its called '' tea'' and supper time here is a late night snack and tea which we have at 9pm. so we have like cake or muffins and hot chocolate and tea.. but our meal is called tea. weird right! but i am getting used to it.. breakfast is normal its like 50 giant tubs of every cereal you can think of, and then yoghourt some fruit and toast .. and on saturdays for breaky we get bacon eggs the whole bit, and sundays we get cereal but instead of toast we get chocolate croissants ...YES! MY favorite day..... :) 

TRAVEL.....

we are about 10 min away from a small town called carnforth it is smaller then port carling.. so we only go there if we need groceries.. we have a bus that takes us 3 times a week if you decide to go, sometimes its full so it cost about 10 pounds one way.. then next city is lancaster we went yesterday its super cool theres few streets that all the roads are closed and its just booths and stores looks like midnight madness ! it also has starbucks so i can use wifi! yay! and we went to a nice italian restaurant it was so different! real italian pizza it was so weird but so good!!! 

i think thats all!! i am doing so wonderful i love it here ! i am so happy .. assignments start next week so i will have so much more for yall! love you guys thanks for your support for me !! here are some verses that stuck to me while im here so far

Jeremiah 9:23-24 this first helped me come down to reality that i dont know everything about god.. no one does we are always learning and there is always more to learn about him!