more pictures! yay!

this is my family group (minus the staff members... there are 3 staff members)... top row left to right: evan (canada), me, acacia (canada), jp (germany), bottom row left to right: rachel (usa), johanna (switzerland), tegan (canada), caeleb (australia).

i love this group. they are the greatest people ever. here we're about to go wombat chasing... after eating kangaroo steaks, of course. the best time ever! so far, the best times i've had here have been with my family group. i love them


here are only a few pictures so far! i'll have more sometime. it takes FOREVER to load them, so be happy with these for now. ok? if you have comments, send them my way! i love to hear from you.


catching the wombat! can you see the excitement on our faces? we were so happy to catch that wombat. dad, no worries, i don't think this wombat was about to use his ferocious teeth on us. he was freaked out of his mind.










this is fiji... i was almost on my last plane into australia... of course, this was taken long before the wombat pictures. i just like to confuse you all. fiji was absolutely gorgeous! the people and the land both. i wish i could've stayed there longer.

SYDNEY!

i'm in sydney at this very moment. enjoying our travel weekend. it's weird being back out in the real world for a while. good, but different. i'm comfortable being on campus most of the time with the new friends i've made. but, it's very good to get away. of course, there's always drama going on since there are tons of girls. but, good times nonetheless.

basically what i wanted to say is that i saw the sydney opera house as well as the sydney harbour bridge. they are both beautiful! of course, the bridge isn't all that special, but the opera house is amazing. i took heaps of pictures, but i am not able to load them at the moment... such has been my life for the past month. well, soon, i assure you. you will then see what sydney looks like at this very minute! for now, i'll keep you in suspense!

i went to manly beach, which is beautiful, today. i didn't even go in the water however. there were a lot of blue-bottles... those are little jelly fish. they aren't deadly... but their sting is VERY painful. so, i didn't risk it. you all know how much i hate ocean life. but, i did enjoy the shopping and the shores of the beach. i enjoyed it so much that i got a little too much sun! but, that's not hard to do here in australia, seeing as the u.v. rays here are more powerful here than anywhere else in the world. well, i did put on some sunscreen... some.

tomorrow i'm back to campus. however, i'll also be visiting hillsong church with a couple of my girlfriends here. i'm so excited for that! for those of you who don't know hillsong, it's a huge church here in australia. their band also makes some of the best praise and worship music out there. and i'll be there tomorrow listening to a whole bunch of their new songs! i'm very excited to be visiting there.

well, in case you're wondering, i'm doing very well at school! my grades are very good. and i'm really enjoying it! talk to you later, and hopefully the next time i send a little message here, there will be pictures too! g'day!