Life In Full Swing

The ball is officially rolling and I feel like a student again. Learning, yay! It feels amazing to be a part of such a fantastic student body full of world-changers. It's a great thing to not be learning only from the incredible trainers, but also from the passion-filled students.

As part of my Church Life involvement this semester I'm serving at the Burwood Extension service 30 minutes towards the inner-west. I'm rostered as a keys player there and I can't wait to jump in with the band. We're going to have an awesome year at Burwood as we've been so blessed with good leadership and a committed team. The other area of Church Life I'll be serving in is I-Heart (i-heart.org). I haven't been given a specific role yet but I am so eager to get involved with this amazing initiative. Check out the website to get details regarding what they're all about, but to sum it up quickly, the I-Heart Revolution is all about enabling more people to help more people. Social Justice. Awesome stuff.

In our core tutorial class, we have 25 students and together we make up a band of awesome potential. (Side note: If anyone has a clever name for us, please let me know! We're still trying to figure something out.) As a class, we spend tons of time together in lectures, tutorials and of course our workshops, so we thought it appropriate to set up a birthday system. Every homeroom has one, right? Somehow I was designated as the 'birthday organizer' and made up a beautiful colour-coded chart for when we celebrate birthdays. What does every birthday need? Cupcakes! Obviously. So our chart is divided into designated columns of the class bakers who have volunteered to bake cupcakes for each time we have a birthday. This week it was Claire's birthday, so Annika and I had an awesome time baking and icing in Claire's honour. It was sooo much fun and if we do say so ourselves, they tasted great.

Annika and I baking our delicious cake creations :)

So based on what I've been reading on facebook, Ontario has been getting a bunch of snow storms, and though I can't say the same is true here in Australia, we DID have an awesome afternoon thunderstorm yesterday! The weather here continues to be an absolute roller coaster, and just when you think you've got a handle on the heat, it dives or spikes ten degrees either way. It's keeping us on our toes, and I think that's probably a good thing. I've learned to carry a sweater, sunglasses and an umbrella ALLLways.

At the end of the day, Australia is amazing. I'll never become complacent to the fact that I'm here. But being completely real... Uxbridge, I do miss you.

I think about all of my amazing friends and family, the friends that basically ARE family, and I can't help but smile. I know that I'm 100% supposed to be here at Hillsong College for this season of my life, but know that you all are on my mind and held close in my heart.

Plus I crave Tim Hortons ALL THE TIME.

If anyone would like to send me a Tim Horton's care package, here's my address:

2 Cavalry Grove

Glenwood, New South Whales

2768

Australia

All my love!

Brittany