Since then, I've gained a new perspective on things. Australia is BEAUTIFUL. It's a weird mix of things that seem to fit together. It's lush and green, but then there are deserts. It has beautiful mountain views mixed with industrial-ness such as the steelworks right out our window. The beach is beautiful and long and flat if you turn around there's hills and mountains everywhere. So many different pieces but they fit together really well.
I really love living on base for many different reasons, but one would have to be the variety of cultures. Along with myself and Alanna, there are 2 staff and one student from Canada, and we are hardcore repping Canada! There are many people from the states, people from Switzerland, Norway, Spain, Colombia, Germany, and England. Yesterday we watched a rerun of the Olympic opening ceremonies and it was hilarious, cheering for all the different nations as they came on the screen, and commenting on their outfits... Canada obviously looked the best with their spiffy jackets, Germany's athletes looked like Popsicles, and the US looked like they were wearing ugly Christmas sweaters. Not quite sure what they were thinking on that front haha :)
Yesterday, we went to the zoo in Nowra. If you know me at all, you'd know that I actually don't like zoos because I don't like animals, and we also have gone to a whole heck of a lot of zoos because my youngest brother loves them, so I just really don't enjoy them at all. Overall, this one was no exception, but it was cool to see the kangaroos and all the other weird animals, like an echidna and a wombat. There was even a baby wombat that FOLLOWED THE ZOO KEEPER AROUND AND IT WAS THE CUTEST THING EVER. We got to spank the wombat because the trainer was telling us about how the wombat has a hard piece of bone or cartilage on it's butt to protect it from predators, so she carried it around and let us pet it and spank it haha :)
After that we stopped for donuts, and then stopped again at what they call the "blowhole" in a city called Kiama. It was pretty much a hole in the cliffs that water from the ocean went under and splashed up into. When the waves were really strong, one guy was telling us, the water coming up from the blowhole would actually go a couple hundred metres into the air which would have been so cool! But the waves weren't that big so they barely splashed at all. But Alanna and I got to climb down some rocks right by the water and it was BEAUTIFUL :) we serve such a creative God, whether it's through the animals or the water or the mountains. So cool.
And that brings us to today! We have a day off to relax a bit, and tomorrow we get right back into it. For those of you who were wondering, we're not sure where we're going for outreach yet, and we don't know for sure when we will, but other dtses have found out during week 5 at the earliest so there is a possibility that it would be this week!
That comes to the end of my blog post. I have to go eat breakfast before they put it away!
As we continue life here, prayers would be appreciated for continued health and safety, patience (I live in a room with 4 other girls and they're all really clean hahaha), an open heart and mind for lectures, and just being able to wait on God. There are some health issues happening at home and it's hard for the people that are here to be here and not there. God has been faithful before and he'll be faithful again!
God is big and God is good.
Amen!
-Cailey
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