another update!

ok everybody, while sending out an email to family, i decided to post some of it on here, and some pictures, cuz the internet at this hostel works!
the internet at the school is very difficulte and doesnt like to work, luckily im at a hostel in sydney for the weekend with some friends from school and the internet works...fast. I went into Bowral the other day to the library to write emails and things and i had a long letter written and i timed out. Ahh brutal, kind of my fault on that one though, just thought id share. This week has been nice though, no assignments due for 2 weeks after i had an oral presentation and a snac presentation the same week. Each person does an oral presentation once a term, where you can talk about anything for 9-11 minutes as long as you relate it back to God. Snac stands for Sunday night at capernwray, its like young adults church, once a term you are assigned to a snack service where you have to have a fun service for 35 minutes and deliver a message with 5 other people.
So a little about my roomies. I have 3 roomies (well 4 this week with a taste and see here for a week). My roomies are great, Tyler C is from Colorado and i have connected with him pretty well, Colton is from northern Alberta but originally from fort nelson BC, and he is trying to change from what he is to what God wants him to be. Ian is from Saskatchewan and is a pretty quiet but cool guy. Colton likes country music and grew up in a Christian home, with little actual following of God. Ian is into Hardcore Christian music and Tyler likes indie and ska rock. We all get along really well and have enough space to work with. The bathroom in our unit has two showers and a toilet that is separated by a door, it is a great. We each have a bedlight and a dresser and closet. Oh and we are responsible for our own laundry, its 1.40 for washing and 2 for drying, so drying it on the line is cheaper, but if its raining thats not such a good idea. The bedsheets get cleaned every Wednesday as part of work day. Meals are ok, we have breakfast at 7:30 each morning and its mandatory except saturdays. Most days its cereal and toast, Wednesdays we get bacon, eggs and hashbrowns and Fridays someone usually makes pancakes. Lunch is at 1pm and is optional if you sign out, but you have to make your own lunch at brekkie on Saturdays. Supper is at 6pm and is also optional if you sign out, we usually have sandwiches or soup for lunch. Supper is usually something like stew, curry chicken, chicken, lambsteak, and meatloaf. On Sundays we usually get tacos, and half the days we get desert after supper. Today i went for Chinese food in bowral for lunch with woodsy to discuss hong kong stuff and it was really good.
Favourite thing to do so far....thats a tough one. Worshipping on Sunday nights has been pretty awesome, im generally happy to just hang out with people doing whatever. Going to the beach and surfing last weekend was lots of fun and kangaroo hunting/camping at the beginning of the term was fun. other things that are fun are playing soccer for one(of course) and hanging out listening to music, also going into town, and watching movies. So far i have enjoyed most of the lectures and there have been some interesting things brought up. This week we learned about Jesus the healer from woodsy, had a drama team come in for a session, a youth pastor come in and talk about the church, Dave doing 1Tim and talking about other faith related issues that come up, as well as jonny doing hermeneutics(weekly lecture) and Neil doing Old Testament Survey(weekly). Tomorrow there are oral presentations then its travel weekend.

Its been a great time, there have of course been times when ive felt down, but it doesn’t take long to feel encouraged again. Also it is beautiful here, it has been more rainy than usual for their summer so its really green right now. It can get cold overnight, with no central heating, but only down to 5-10ish, and when it doesn’t rain, its often like 20-30 during the afternoon. It has been super sunny and around 27 the last few days.

I could use prayer for Hong Kong mission trip im going on in April. We go out to newboy house in Hong Kong on April 3 and minister to former drug addicts who have accepted Christ, that goes for 2 weeks, the ministry was started long ago by Jackie Pullinger, who apparently is an incredible on fire for God person. Me and Woodsey are doing that. I also might be going to the great barrier reef(and Cairns) after school is done.

Got an email from U of C but it didnt really help much, still need to wait til april for anything going forward. Not expecting anything soon. The first couple of Thursdays with the kiddies at funhouse has gone well, its interesting and challenging to deal with kids that age(6-12) but its alright. I got a letter from the guys from my youth group at home, with messages from all the guys, it was awesome and so encouraging. To the guys from my Youth group - i appreciate it heaps and i hope you are all doing awesome and growing in your faith.
I hope this email has been informative and gives you some good info, now that im over halfway through the first term(week 6 is almost done).
hmm pics arent working, facebook pics should be up soon tho
Bye for now, from Down Under,
Love Adam