Hello everybody, so this is my first post from overseas.
i arrived in sydney on friday after days of flying, i stayed near the train station in sydney on friday night. i took the train out into the beautiful countryside on saturday(friday calgary time) and arrived at capernwray to meet my new friends.
at capernwray there is 43 students, over 30 of which are canadian! there are only 2 europeans, 5 americans and a few aussies as well as a kiwi. so far it has been busy constantly and lots of fun getting to know everybody in this totally strange place. as a friend of mine back in calgary said it is "constricting but freeing at the same time"
also it is beautiful here, it has felt like 30 degrees here and very warm at night too. sorry to hear it is freezing cold back in calgary, definitly makes me appreciate this weather, it is cooking here. We are heading to the beach tomorrow afternoon which will be really cool. This semester is going to be amazing im sure, good times ahead. in our room, there are 4 guys, which has worked out great cuz we are all pretty easy going. my roomies are tyler, colton and ian. colton and ian are from west canada and tyler is from colorado. there are 5 second semester students here and almost everyone has a laptop. it was wierd to see like 30 people in the hall on their laptops when the internet was up on sat night.

i included just a few pics for you all : top left - fitzroy falls, top right - singapore airport, bottom left - harbour bridge, bottom right, a field near capernwray....enjoy

on a normal day we have brekkie, chores, devos, two sessions, morning tea then one more session. each session goes 45 minutes and we cover a different topic each week. we have afternoons free mostly and have a session at night after dinner. If there is anything specific anyone would like to know, just ask!
Oh...for hillsong fans, i may get the opportunity to attend their live recording of their next album in February(i think it is February).
As for right now, im just relaxing and staying out of the sun haha. on sunday we went to fitzroy falls, it was cool

having all this fun is great, but i definitly miss all my family and friends and i hope you are all doing amazing, let me know what is new/how you are by email or posting on this blog. thanks everybody for
your support

Bye for now,
Adam

Australia here i come!!

ok one last shout out before i head out. just wanted to say thank you to everybody who gave me encouragement, advice, going away presents and memerable goodbyes. i appreciate it so much and feel so blessed. i excited not only for my trip but for the changes that you will encounter and to see everybody again. thats all...my next post will be from outside north america somewhere!

3.5 days!!

So i leave for Australia on wednesday morning....sooo soon. im quite excited to go...but unfortunately im not quite ready. oh well it will work out.
if you are reading this, i probably sent you a link to this blog(or you are on facebook haha). bye to anyone that i dont get a chance to say bye to before i go, i hope that your next 7 months are awesome. not much else to say at this point, but this is where i will be hopefully updating what is going on in australia. enjoy!

oxymorons etc

contradictions from a book i read

good mornings (haha)
school food
plastic silverware
reality tv
working vacations
bad luck
old news
bankrupt millionaires
united methodists
diet oreos

these are some with ethical issues
military intelligence
peacekeeping missiles
just wars (no war is just)
smart bombs
friendly fire

peter maurin writes:
if we are crazy, then it is because we refuse to be crazy in the same way that the world has gone crazy
what is crazier:
one person owning the same amount of money as the combined economies of 23 countries, or suggesting that if we shared there would be enough for everyone?
spending billions of dollars on a defence shield or shareing the billions so we dont need one?
maintaining arms contracts with 154 coutnries while asking the world to disarm its weapons of mass destruction or suggesting that we lead the world in disarmament by refusing to deal weapons with over the world and emptying the world's largest stockpile here at home?(the author is refering to the states, but its still something to think about).

less then 6% of the worlds population consumes nearly half the worlds resources
the hope should be that someday war and poverty will be crazy...but it takes alot of faith to get to that point. i hope someday the big world leaders realize that war doesnt really solve anything, it just gets more killed. as shane claiborne put in this book,
the only thing harder then war is peace, and the only thing that takes more work, tears and sweat then divison is reconciliation. but what more more beautiful things would we devote our lives to?

until the courage we have for peace surpasses the courage we have for war, violence will continue to triumph and imperial execution rather than divine resurrection will have the final word


that was a little snippet of the book "irresistable revolution" by shane claiborne in a little of my own words. the book had many important points and i would recomend reading it(adam reccomending a book? now thats crazy)