Good - bye Australia

I leave in approximately 4 hours for the airport.. so stoked! yay!
See you all in a few more months!

Tears

Said goodbye to a majority of my best friends here today. Started at 3 am and went until 9 am.. I can't wait to go on Tuesday.
This has been the slowest day of my entire life. There is no one here.. and you can hear a pin drop.. when you're standing outside. It's so sad. Tonight will be good though. My outreach team is getting together and hanging out and then I think a bunch of us are going to get some icecream at Hungry Jacks (Burger King) for 50 cents! 1 last soft serve cone for memories :)
I love you all - and I'll be backing away my lap top tonight so I won't be on too much for a while .. depends on internet availability in the Philippines and Australia. But ya, I'll talk to you all laterrrrrrr. PEACE

Good-byes

Our good-byes started this morning. First Philippines team left at 5 am this morning. Emma's on that team so we said our goodbyes. I was really happy though that the first 2 teams that left were Philippines teams because I'll be joining them in 3 days. the hard part starts tomorrow morning at 3 Am when the Fiji Mexico team leaves :(.. I started getting teary this afternoon when the second Philippines team left and so tomorrow is going to be rough considering that my best friends are pretty much all leaving tomorrow .. I hate this. :(

Shop 'Till You Drop

So I went out today and got the rest of the straggly things that I needed for outreach - you know like the always necessary deoderant :) and all that. Plus I'm also in charge of the hospitality aspect of our team so I bought the little treats and stuff for the people that are hosting us. I guess one of the bases that we are staying at have less people that all 4 teams (39 in total) collectively going to stay there lol I have no idea how we are going to live so that'll be interesting. Anyways, so I'm ready to get going .. just waiting for my plane to take off now!

(I'm definitely looking forwards to the days and days we'll be driving lol. pray for me to survive the large amounts of counry music that will no doubt be playing in the vehicles we'll be driving in. Tears are already welling up in my eyes thinking about it.)

Commissioning Night

All YP (my school on stage singing Human by the Killers as our intro type thing)

Time to eat food .. cheesecake, cracker and dip, these crisp things and yummy juice.

My outreach team!

Christian (staff) and I

Most of the guys I believe

Me and Ibz... or Iben as most know her by.

Yay - dance party!

Nick being full of awesome - not that he isn't normall just at this moment he was especially full of awesome.

Wednesday night was our commissioning night. All the DTSs that are running at the time and headed for outreach are all brought up on stage individually, a few students give testimonies of lecture phase and what they learned and got out of it and so on. And then at the end all the schools go up and all the base leaders and any audience members that want to go up and pray for our teams. It was amazing - the Holy Spirit was definitly present!

It was a lot of fun a lot of pictures and a lot of facebook albums have been created because of it :) lol. And of coures after all good YWAM events there was a dance party after.

5 Days

Only 5 days until we head off. Everythings coming together so fast. We've been working on dramas (the clincer and lifehouse which you can find on youtube if you want to take a look) they're both amazing. Lifehouse will be for the Philippines and the clincher will be Australia.. so it's going to be great. I can't wait. I've got nearly everything I need - just need to grab some laundry detergent so I can have clean clothes once and a while haha. And I'm good. Anyways that's just a quick update. Won't have solid or stable internet there probably so I won't be posting or emailing too too much the next 12 weeks but for sure after :).
Have a good one.

Trip Agenda

We leave Perth on Tuesday March 31st at around 5:30 pm Perth time so around 4:30 am Ontario time. It's two 5 hour flights to Manila (on Luzon - an island) in the Philippines and then we wait 5 hours in Manila and then fly to Cebu City (on an island between Luzon and another big one Mandonao or something). So we are in Cebu on a YWAM base for a month. April 1st to May 1st and then the 4 teams living there leave for 15 days. So I'm flying back to Manila and then straight up to the top of Luzon. Then on the 16th we all come back to Manila (all 4 outreach teams that had been seperated) and we all do ministry in the big city Manila and area. So I'm pretty pumped. So the rest of the 8 weeks are spent there and then we all leave to our seperate countries. So I'll fly back to Perth and then we'll drive up the coast going North to small towns and do youth ministries there. I'm so excited I can hardly wait. I have pretty much everything I Need for outreach and I can only pack 25 pounds of stuff for 3 months .. holy goodness. I'm excited though - it'll definitely be an unforgettable experience :)