64 Days...

...until I come home. Exactly 9 weeks tomorrow. I will be travelling again in less than a month, and I am leaving for outreach in 4 days...

...where does the time go?

Sunset at the Ruins and Little Lambs

On Wednesday evening, my outreach team went to the ruins to watch the sunset. It was a really nice time, and the sunet was beautiful. I can't believe we are leaving for 10 day outrech in just one week!

Lion King sun!

And this afternoon, Brittany, Kaila, Laura, and I went to see the baby lambs (skittles)! They are so cute!

Lambs Blue One, Blue Two, and Blue Three! Their mom was a blue skittle sheep!

Swans, Sun, and Sporadic Fog

The glassy water and warm sun were really making me wish I had a boat and some waterskis or something!

The swans were out on the pond!

Serenity

Peace

So, the day started out looking like this...

...but transformed into this! It was so beautiful and warm outside. Unfortunately, it only lasted for a couple hours, and then the fog came back.

Apparently one of the sheep got a little too close to the barbed wire!

The "Blooping Bridge", on the loop at Capernwray

Watching the swans and feeling the sun on my back.

P.S. Thanks mom and dad for sending my scarf with Mrs. Hinz!

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I do not have normal lectures this week. Monday to Thursday is all workshops, seminars, and team time, where my team and I will be preparing for our 10 day outreach. Sadly, I have to miss the team time on Tuesday and Wednesday evening for netball. We have two games this week; if we win both we will move from second to first place, I believe!!

Kim and I have started working on our travel plans for spring break, and I'm getting really excited about it. We still have a lot to figure out and book, so I really hope it will all start coming together soon.

Also, as of last week, all my assignments and tests for this year at winter school are finished (except for a memory work test at the end of term). The tests here are really interesting--they were all multiple choice/fill in the blank/true and false. I say they were interesting because if you chose the wrong answer, you didn't just get 0 for that question, you got -1! So technically, if you got half the questions right, you would still end up with a 0 as a mark! Kind of brutal!

Yesterday I had salsa for the first time since leaving home! It was so delicious! So much flavour (something I am now not used to at all)!

I will be starting Ephesians in my Bible reading tomorrow...it's been really exciting reading the Bible from cover to cover.

A Poem

I forgot to mention before that I found this poem on my desk. I am pretty sure it's the work of Ben Hardesty...he's the student who wrote the Pig Sheep Funeral Dirge.

Not all soup is cold
Not all beads are gold
Not all peas are green
Not all insects are seen
But if you
climb down
into the manhole
you will see
That all turtles are ninjas!!!

This poem will probably give you some indication about the kind of guy he is!

10 Day Outreach Preliminary Weekend

I was away this weekend, visiting the church I will be partnering with during my 10 Day Outreach. My team had a great time meeting our host families and the church members, and beginning our planning for ten day outreach. We will be kept quite busy during our ten day outreach. We are in charge of 4 church services, 2 or 3 school assemblies, a women's prayer meeting/devotional time (Samuel is not a part of this), a netball outreach, 2 youth club nights, a lunchtime program at a high school, spending time at a care home...I'm sure there's more, but I can't remember it all off the top of my head!

The church is very small--definitely not something I'm used to. The pastor said the Sunday morning service varies between 30 and 60 people attending. They also have a service in the evening, which there were about 15 people at yesterday. The church members are all really friendly and I'm looking forward to getting to know them better.

In other news, one of the lecturers I have this week used to be a professional drummer! He is probably about 65 years old now. Anyway, he promised us a drum solo at some point during the lectures, so I'm quite looking forward to that!

Also, I have decided what I want to study next year. I feel really good and at peace about the decision I made and I'm looking forward to going to U of S in autumn.