Rain Rain Go Away, Come Again Every Morning!!!

 

So apparently things work a lot different here than in North America.  At home, when it rains, it’s a normal event.  Apparently here it’s a huge thing an shuts down the whole world.  We woke up this morning for morning exercises, and it was raining outside… not a big deal.  But because of the rain, they cancelled exercises.  Which I was pretty okay with because it means an extra hour of sleep, but it was so weird.  Can you imagine if things shut down because of rain in the valley?  Nothing would ever get done, it would be so funny.

Midnight Basketball!!!

So yesterday we started doing outreach with sports.  We're volunteering in a Saturday night basketball league for the inner city kids, so that they have something to do on a Saturday night other than party.  My job is coaching a team, which is super exciting.  For all of you who have ever been to camp, imagine the worst camper you've ever had, and then multiply it by 9... that's your team.  The kids are all kids who have really bad homes, and so act up so that we'll notice them.  But they're still some of the best kids I've ever met.  When they get to play, they're all so excited, and I love seeing them so excited about something. I can wait to get to coach them every week.

School Begins!!!

Wow.  One week of schools done already.  It feels like I've been here forever, but at the same time like I just got here.
We got our morning chores and work duties yesterday, which was actually really exciting.  For morning chores all I do is clean the kitchen of the director of YWAM Perth, which usually only involves washing a few cups, and then wiping down the cupboard.  But the really exciting job is my work duty.  I'm on hospitality for the 3 months that I'm here, which pretty much means that I get to bake cakes or brownies or cookies or something for 2 hours every afternoon.  Which is super fun.

Last night we started doing outreach as well.  For those of you who have been to the Dream Centre in L.A., its a lot similar to what we would do on their evening outreaches.  For the next month the area that the base is focusing on Scarbourough, a really touristy, rich are of town right on the beach.  We went there last night, and got to worship on the beach and pray for the people that we're going to get to meet there over the next month.  We went off in smaller groups to pray, and I ended up with 2 guys on my DTS from Switzerland, which ended up being really cool.  We wandered around praying for a while, and then all of us really felt that there was someone wandering around that we needed to talk to.  So we kept walking, looking out for who this could be.  Eventually when we were walking outside of a hotel, we came up to 2 older men who were speaking in German, which both of the Swiss guys I was with sort of spoke.  They got the chance to talk to the 2 men, and although we didn't see them come to Christ or anything, it was really cool to see how God put the 2 men in front of us to talk to, and how it was the 2 people on our team that spoke German that were there.

The Adventure Begins!!!

So I got to school yesterday.  I love it here so much.  All the single girls on base live in one house, which has two huge rooms and a kitchen.  So all the DTS girls live in one room, which is the 8 that are in my Sports DTS, and then 10 in the regular DTS.  Pretty much everyone here is from North America.  There are 2 Canadians, about 15 Americans, and then 2 Europeans.  The base is only a 3 minute walk from the house, which is also really nice.

Everyone at the school is really friendly, a ton of the staff is also from North America.  After lunch and dinner every day everyone goes out to the volleyball court behind the cafeteria and plays for about an hour or so.  It sounds like my school will be playing a ton of volleyball, because that's what everyone played the most at home, which is also really exciting.