gettin my fun on...

o man! the last week has been crazy as!
sunday night i finally went to this little church i've been hearing about called small boat big sea. it was alright... interesting--not what i was expecting and slightly disappointing. but it was ok. it was funny because i went by myself (i spent all day sunday by myself... it was AWESOME!). but then all of a sudden i felt someone hugging me and my friend bekah was there with my other friend matt and his parents! (they came to visit him during the break... hehe) it was super random, but cool!
monday was a completely lazy day with my host brother, which was beautiful.
tuesday i hung out with brittany all day. we got coffee with a guy that she was meeting with to talk about architecture (i promise that girl gets me into the most random situations. ask me about being the awkward 3rd wheel on her date... haha, i'm not even kidding!) anyways, he ended up being really cool and i was glad i went. after that we went to a dinner thing at some lady's house that she met at church on sunday. we met lots of people our age, but i doubt i'll ever talk to any of them again. they were cool, though.
early wednesday morning brittany, esther, and i caught the train up to the central coast to hang out with our friend alex from wesley. he lives on a bay and really close to the beach, so we hung out at the beach all day then went back to his house and just hung out there. it was a beautiful area, and he actually lives in woywoy (which is where the bush trip was)! it was fun to just chill and get away from the city without the entire group. so we came back from his house on thursday, then friday morning we got the same train back up to the same place for the bush trip!
it was SO FUN! i don't think it was as good as the outback, but it was really awesome. the first day i was in a TERRIBLE mood and it was hot and miserable and i was not excited about the trip at all. but after a good night's rest the weekend just went uphill. over the whole time we learned all about aboriginals and connection to country and stuff. we got broken up into totem groups for the weekend. mine was wallumbang (kangaroo). we made a totem symbol for ourselves, and we learned an awesome aboriginal song (i will sing it for you when i get home!) and we made a dance to it then danced around the fire! i also learned how to throw a boomerang (not one of my spiritual gifts...) and play the didgeridoo (also not so good...).
hahaha... this is an actual quote from the guy that taught us how to throw the boomerangs (he said it right after my first throw): "I've never seen a boomerang fly like that before!" haha... it was pretty bad.
anyways... my totem group had an awesome time together and we got into all kinds of innocent mischief. it was just an awesome, educational, relaxing time. i am soo not ready to go back to school yet.
fact: i have 4 weeks left of class, then 1 week of stuvac (a time to make up missed classes, and i'll probably have to take a test during that week), then i'm off to new zealand for a week, then i'm home! it is unbelievable how quickly my time here has gone. i can't believe it's almost over.
i can't focus on that right now though... i have too much homework and exploring to do!