Hey there everyone
As most of you know, the past 3 months I have spent going to school in New Zealand. My time in New Zealand has pretty much come to an end and its not time for outreach. Me and a team of 8 other people:
Nate & Wendy....a couple from Florida
Natalya....Peurto Rico
Lauren....California
Jong Kyu...South Korea
Jordan...Kansas
Stacey (one of the team leaders)...New Serepta Alberta Canada (like 30 minutes away from my house)
Will (our other team leader)...California
We will be going to Russia and Eastern Europe...places like Finland, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Turkey, Greece and then we graduate in Israel with the rest of the people that I have gone to school with. I am really excited. But I know that at the same time its gonna be really hard. Please please pray for me! PRay that our team would be united, that above everything we would love. LOVE. That we would love. Love is so freaking important and I want to be a person that loves. Love not judge.
Also pray for the hearts of the people that we will be talking to, pray that God would spiritually prepare us. Oh and pray that God would give us opportunity to talk to people on the long long airplanes. Oh and praise God too, praise God that there are people who go out and do these things, praise him for the opportunity that he has given me, praise him for permanent missionarys who are there all the time. Just praise God for who he is! Praise the Lord that we can have a relationship with him! Praise God that he is a personal God, thats the things that all other religions are missing out on...a personal relationship with God.
Anyways I love you all, and I am praying that God blesses yall! Keep emailing me! and keep checking my blog... leaveit2beave@hotmail.com
Thursday, March 30, 2006
Monday, March 27, 2006
6 days and counting
6-5-4-3-2-1...................we have lift off!
Time has been going sooo fast. In 6 days I shall be getting on a plane. Seriously this is completely insane. I am so excited. But I really hate packing for serious. Packing is the absolute worst part of travelling.
And I am really thinking alot about my future...but then I realize even if I plan it won't make a difference...cuz you know me I always do last minute things...even if the plans seem quite concrete. but ya as of right now, I want to work. I want to work. Haha. I want to live a normal life for just a bit ya know? I wanna be a massage therapist for a bit and maybe do other things. Have 2 jobs.
Anyways I shall be off,
I will talk to you later
Angee
Time has been going sooo fast. In 6 days I shall be getting on a plane. Seriously this is completely insane. I am so excited. But I really hate packing for serious. Packing is the absolute worst part of travelling.
And I am really thinking alot about my future...but then I realize even if I plan it won't make a difference...cuz you know me I always do last minute things...even if the plans seem quite concrete. but ya as of right now, I want to work. I want to work. Haha. I want to live a normal life for just a bit ya know? I wanna be a massage therapist for a bit and maybe do other things. Have 2 jobs.
Anyways I shall be off,
I will talk to you later
Angee
Saturday, March 25, 2006
Oh my GOodness
Oh my goodness, Oh my goodness!
I have pretty much not been able to get on the computer since Thursday. So in my last entry I talked about how we were fasting indefinately until the money came in. Well on Monday and Tuesday $20,000 came in. And thats pretty awesome. Wednesday night this bell thing rang which usually signifies a meal or something rang. And there is a pregnant staff member so I thought that she was having her baby or something. Well they wait until everyone is in the room and then our school leader Josie announces that all our money was in! That the fast was over! A couple had donated $50,000nz! Isn't that amazing. It totally just proved how incredibly faithful God is. Like isn't that freaking amazing! Ya its just real exciting. Cuz you always hear about how other people experience miracles like that, and to finally get my own big story. Its so awesome! God is sooo good.
Anyways like a week until we leave pretty much. People are starting to pack. I think that, that is pretty much real insane. I honestly can't believe that in less that 10 days I will be in Russia. Russia? Who on earth goes to Russia? Like really now?
Anyways I will try to update a bit more this week.
Ciao for now!
I have pretty much not been able to get on the computer since Thursday. So in my last entry I talked about how we were fasting indefinately until the money came in. Well on Monday and Tuesday $20,000 came in. And thats pretty awesome. Wednesday night this bell thing rang which usually signifies a meal or something rang. And there is a pregnant staff member so I thought that she was having her baby or something. Well they wait until everyone is in the room and then our school leader Josie announces that all our money was in! That the fast was over! A couple had donated $50,000nz! Isn't that amazing. It totally just proved how incredibly faithful God is. Like isn't that freaking amazing! Ya its just real exciting. Cuz you always hear about how other people experience miracles like that, and to finally get my own big story. Its so awesome! God is sooo good.
Anyways like a week until we leave pretty much. People are starting to pack. I think that, that is pretty much real insane. I honestly can't believe that in less that 10 days I will be in Russia. Russia? Who on earth goes to Russia? Like really now?
Anyways I will try to update a bit more this week.
Ciao for now!
Monday, March 20, 2006
mandatory fast
So ya right now I am on a fast. NOt just me, everyone here at YWAM oxford is on a fast right now. We are fasting until all the money for outreach comes in. We have no idea how long that will take. So right now I am indefinately fasting. But ya its good cuz I was planning on fasting for part of this week anyways but now I am really forced to do it :) But I know that God is gonna amaze us, like we still need like 70,000$ NZ in 2 weeks, and its gonna be here. And so all of you will be amazed also!
There is this huge mosquito like creature on the wall beside me...its pretty scary looking, if it bites me I would probly cry, oh good I found out that its a non biting mosquito...how on earth does that work?
Oh last night I found on that my family got my dog Petey put down. That was really sad for me, I mean I have had that dog since I was 4. But I totally knew it was time for him to go. But its just weird not being there and so I will come home in a few months and be like wheres Petey. And I realy do think that my cat may die of loneliness cuz she no longer has something to torment :)
Anyways today is the 20, like 12 days until I leave for Europe...I guess I should start thinking about packing...haha, we all know that I am such a last minute packer!
ANGEE
There is this huge mosquito like creature on the wall beside me...its pretty scary looking, if it bites me I would probly cry, oh good I found out that its a non biting mosquito...how on earth does that work?
Oh last night I found on that my family got my dog Petey put down. That was really sad for me, I mean I have had that dog since I was 4. But I totally knew it was time for him to go. But its just weird not being there and so I will come home in a few months and be like wheres Petey. And I realy do think that my cat may die of loneliness cuz she no longer has something to torment :)
Anyways today is the 20, like 12 days until I leave for Europe...I guess I should start thinking about packing...haha, we all know that I am such a last minute packer!
ANGEE
Saturday, March 18, 2006
Insomniac
Hello Hello,
Right now I can not sleep. I am staying in a hostel right now and ya i can't sleep. I am in a place called Kaikora or something like that, its on the east coast like 2 and a hlaf hours away from where I live. The hostel is pretty nice and I have a double bed to myself! Karazy eh, but ya I just can't sleep. Its pretty loud all around us too cuz there are quite a few bars and loud music. And all the people I came with are some what boring and they just wanna hang out and watch movies. And I am all like we are away from base, this is one of our last weekends in New Zealand and we are wasting it sitting here and watching movies. Ya but its all good I Guess :)
So I leave to Europe in 2 weeks! Our team alone is still waiting on about 23,000$ NZ. So like 20,000$ Cad. But ya all together I believe that we as a school still needs close to 60,000$. BUt ya God is gonna do something big. becuz i strongly believe that each of the people here have totally been called by God to do this. And if God calls someone he is not gonna leave them hanging. But ya if you could pray taht would be awesome...and if ya would like to donate you can contact me too :)
But ya I totally can not believe how fast time is passing here. Like 2 weeks! 2 weeks until I leave New Zealand. In 2 and a half weeks I will be in Russia! I am going to Russia. Like seriously who does this? Who goes to school at the bottom of the world? and then travels to a chunk load of other place? ???? Who on earth does that???? For reals?
I don' think I have much else to say. I've had kinda an interesting week. oh yes i wrote about angels and mortals week. It was really good and on Thursday we had a Love feast. Where we revealed who our angel was. IT was fun and we had some pretty rock awesome food. And we were all dressed up and my hair was straight. And it was pretty cool, I will have to show you some hot pictures later. and then we had a dance party after to some old school 80s hits. It was awesome.
Also God was really good this week. Continuously I am learning new things. Things that totally overwhelm my mind. Like seriously seriously hardcore things. But ya I shall talk to yall later.
LOVE YA~!
AANNGGEE
For i can do all things through Christ Jesus who gives me strength. Philipians 4:4
Right now I can not sleep. I am staying in a hostel right now and ya i can't sleep. I am in a place called Kaikora or something like that, its on the east coast like 2 and a hlaf hours away from where I live. The hostel is pretty nice and I have a double bed to myself! Karazy eh, but ya I just can't sleep. Its pretty loud all around us too cuz there are quite a few bars and loud music. And all the people I came with are some what boring and they just wanna hang out and watch movies. And I am all like we are away from base, this is one of our last weekends in New Zealand and we are wasting it sitting here and watching movies. Ya but its all good I Guess :)
So I leave to Europe in 2 weeks! Our team alone is still waiting on about 23,000$ NZ. So like 20,000$ Cad. But ya all together I believe that we as a school still needs close to 60,000$. BUt ya God is gonna do something big. becuz i strongly believe that each of the people here have totally been called by God to do this. And if God calls someone he is not gonna leave them hanging. But ya if you could pray taht would be awesome...and if ya would like to donate you can contact me too :)
But ya I totally can not believe how fast time is passing here. Like 2 weeks! 2 weeks until I leave New Zealand. In 2 and a half weeks I will be in Russia! I am going to Russia. Like seriously who does this? Who goes to school at the bottom of the world? and then travels to a chunk load of other place? ???? Who on earth does that???? For reals?
I don' think I have much else to say. I've had kinda an interesting week. oh yes i wrote about angels and mortals week. It was really good and on Thursday we had a Love feast. Where we revealed who our angel was. IT was fun and we had some pretty rock awesome food. And we were all dressed up and my hair was straight. And it was pretty cool, I will have to show you some hot pictures later. and then we had a dance party after to some old school 80s hits. It was awesome.
Also God was really good this week. Continuously I am learning new things. Things that totally overwhelm my mind. Like seriously seriously hardcore things. But ya I shall talk to yall later.
LOVE YA~!
AANNGGEE
For i can do all things through Christ Jesus who gives me strength. Philipians 4:4
Monday, March 13, 2006
Angels and Mortals
So this week is angels and mortals week. where we all put our name in this bag and ya someone pulls a name out. and the person who pulls the name out is the angel and the name he/she gets is the mortal. so the angel is in charge of secretly giving their mortal little things and encouraging them. so its really fun. my mortal has given me cheese and crackers...but its funny cuz i always talk about cheese. in awkward silences i will be like ' i like cheese' it is pretty fun and ya cool :)
anyways have a good ol wonderful day.
angee
anyways have a good ol wonderful day.
angee
Saturday, March 11, 2006
i'm a warrior...a weekend warrior
HEYHEYHEY
so this weekend is my weekend to stay at the base. everyones gotta do it, i am incharge with a group of 4 other people of cooking all the meals and doing other random things. its lots of fun :) hahaha.
anyways ya this past week of classes was a pretty interesting and challenging one. it was all about the holy spirit. i won't go into it on here, but on on the last day we had a bunch of people come in and they seperated us into groups and ya they basically prohphesied over us (its a lot less creepy than it sounds) but ya these people who didn't even know me, thye pretty much had like never met me before, but like she said that i was like a woldflower...that i pop up at the most random times...and everyone in my group thought that that was true,. cuz yta it is. it was a good week, i shall tell ya the rest that they said when i get the sheet, someone wrote it down for us.
but anyways ya if you havent read about faith week yet you totally should cuz its good fun reading. anyways have a good day
ange
so this weekend is my weekend to stay at the base. everyones gotta do it, i am incharge with a group of 4 other people of cooking all the meals and doing other random things. its lots of fun :) hahaha.
anyways ya this past week of classes was a pretty interesting and challenging one. it was all about the holy spirit. i won't go into it on here, but on on the last day we had a bunch of people come in and they seperated us into groups and ya they basically prohphesied over us (its a lot less creepy than it sounds) but ya these people who didn't even know me, thye pretty much had like never met me before, but like she said that i was like a woldflower...that i pop up at the most random times...and everyone in my group thought that that was true,. cuz yta it is. it was a good week, i shall tell ya the rest that they said when i get the sheet, someone wrote it down for us.
but anyways ya if you havent read about faith week yet you totally should cuz its good fun reading. anyways have a good day
ange
Tuesday, March 07, 2006
Still going...wait its done!
Heyhey, so like this is my 4th installment of Faith week. Ya I did 2 today, so you probly didn't read the last one. ... so go back and read the ones you miss...becuz they are jam packed of super exciting things!
So ya the family...the Christian family we were staying with took us to Bluff...And like I said that was super dooper exciting. We stood at a place where we were closer to the south pole that we were to New York...I thought that was karazy cool. So like that family ddropped us off outside of Invercargil and ya it was raining. We all had our little ponchos on. I totally looked like a fool. Like seriously. We would take 10 minute intervals standing in the rain hitching. Finally a guy took pity on our poor looking dejected group. Actually it was a lot of fun standing in the rain cuz i just kept singing and making up dumb songs and so our group would get happy becuz of it ya know.
But ya he drove us about 50km down the road...oh so funny though, you know how they drive on the opposite side of the road as us, and the drivers side is on a different side, well Hans has a momentary loss of memory and goes to get in the car...but its the wrong side. THe driver was like waht on earth...It was sooo incredibly funny. But ya he dropped us off, and we hitched for a while in this one spot. We were so cold. My clothes had been wet for days and had never really had a chance to dry and i was even wearing 2 pairs of pants, but I just never warmed up. And Hans had just brought flipflops. Oh man we were sooo cold :) haha but ya so I actually froze my hitching hand, the skin started to peal off. It was kinda amusing.
We finally got a ride, and it was a really interesting man. He grew up in a Catholic home and he had actually gone to school for 4 years to become a catholic priest, but I guess something happened and he basically renounced his faith. So he pretty much just kept trying to stump us with questions...cuz he knew all the answers also. Well he asked one question, and he was like probly expecting that we would give him this religious hypocritical answer...but we are not about the religion, we are about the relationship. Anyways hes like so what do you say to Muslims, do you think that they are all going to hell. Well Hans was like, "I don't know, I have no right to answer becuz I don't and can't look at the heart' and I was so proud of him for answering like that.
On that drive, we saw these amazing rainbows...they were double rainbows and you could see the endings of both of them. THey just totally reminded me of how faithful God has been to us. And he really has, and it really got me thinking that if God has done this much stuff in faith week, why can't i live with that much faith the rest of the time. Anyways so this man was bringing us to Dunedin. Well when he dropped us off, he gave us 100$! To go stay in a hostel. We ended up staying in a pretty nice hostel that night. Julianna was showering and me and Hans went to look for something to eat at the supermarket. Well during this trip we had gotten an obcession with opening closed doors. Well we saw this church, and i tried the doors and they were open, and there were another set of doors and I poked my head in them and i was like there is noone here, and then i turned to my left and there were a whole bunch of people in a meeting just staring at me. And I made the weirdest most high pitched squeal/laugh/inhaling of breath ever. I don't think that I could even imitate it if I tried. And then for some reason me and Hans ran. It was soo funny.
But it was a good night. Well ok let me paint a picture for you. we are staying in a hostel. In the room we have 6 beds. so 3 people in the room are not with us. 3 guys, one was a kiwi, one was a Swiss guy, and one was from India. So I wake up and I look over and you know what the first hting I saw was : a naked swiss man.! It was so bad, I didn't know what to do. I looked away of course being the good christian girl that i am :) but then i realized that Julianna who was sleeping above him was about to get off her bunk and i wanted to spare her from seeing this guy. so i am trying to be as discrete as possible while telling her that she shouldnt get off the bunk cuz there is a naked man. Ya it was so funny. But thats not all! I think that Hans and Julianna are the only ones in the room and i throw open the door and here is a naked indian man.
I was like oh man you know its gonna be a good day when you see 2 naked men in a course of an hour. But ya so we leave the house of nudity ( the hostel and we go chill for a while at good ol starbucks ) and ya The 2 coffee addicts in my group has spent so much money on coffee so far this week so i decided that i could spend money on the most expensive drink there...so i pretty much did. And we sat and read in starbucks, and ya just chilled. And i was looking at my day planner and i was like holy crap. We only have 4 more weeks of school left! Then we go on outreach. I was pretty much in shock. LIke its so scary, I realized that I will never be here again, in these moments again. Like there will never be another day like today ever. I totally realized that i need to live each day to the fullest man.
Anyways ya we started to walk to the outskirts of town, it started hailing, that was pretty joyous. Ya but it stopped and then we hitched a ride. Just ya all through this I could just see God's faithfulness. Like although we were like why on earth is it raining sooo much, but God was soo bringing rain to areas that just really needed rain. So ya I just had to praise God for just knowing who needs what ya know? Actually this american woman named Joyce picked us up. She was on holidays. It was pretty cool just talking to her and such, she had such unique beliefs and we were just real with her. IT was good for both of us becuz she was real with us too. We stopped for lunch in a place called Oamaru...and she bought us Subway! It was sooo good, i didn't realize how much I missed it until then, I had a chicken bacon ranch wrap. She was soo nice to us. It was so good, and then she drove us to Timaru, the town where we had planned to stay the night.
Well we wandered around the town, really not knowing what to do. And after a few hours of wandering, we just all say down on a bench...near the beautiful ocean and we were gonna have a time of prayer. Well a couple who must have thought we were kiwis, came up and asked us what kind of sites there were to see here. and we were like we just got into town ourselves. and just when we were talking to this couple, who were from hawaii, this guy walks up and he was like hey (to the couple) you are american, i am too. His name was Chris and he was like a renewable energy engineer. Well the couple left and he started talking to us and he ended up offering us a place to stay. It was awesome, we ended up making him dinner...which was like bread stuff and pizza and we had also bought a cheesecake and we went down to the beach and ate it ... it was so good and fun. Like it was just a fun night.
The next morning was the day that we had to go back to the base. We woke up around 8 am and went for coffee with Chris and then we started on our way. Well after walking for about 15 minutes thru the city, this really loud van with shouting people pulls up to us. Its a van with 2 other teams in it! It was so cool, so we got to show up back at base with 3 teams in one vehicle. It was so awesome.
But ya that is basically the end of faith week. I kinda went more quickly at the end cuz i just wanted to finish. But oh man, God is soo faithful, like what else can I say. Who does what i am doing? I am going to school in New Zealand? i just hitchhiked around New Zealand? I am going to 9 countries in April? Who else does this? LIke seriously this is so unbelievable to me! God is so good.
Its really hard to live a life of faith, but like the rewards are so good. Like ya there is life now! Life that you can live now!!!! Like so many people just talk about life after death...but Jesus came so that we could have life now !!!
K I really am gonna go now!
Angee
almost done....not really
Heyhey, (once again if you are just tuning in, please go to the last 2 blog entrys to ya understand whats going on)
So we woke up at that camp on Wednesday and we still didn't know what we were gonna do. And it was kinda weighing us down it seemed, and Sandra and Kenneth wanted to know our answer (they are the people who owned the holiday park) It was kinda raining out so we were kinda taking that into consideration, and someone actually said that maybe since its raining God does not want us to go. And then I was like well he also said that being a Christian is no walk in the park :) So we did some work for the park like making beds and scrubbing down the rooms. Then we breaked for lunch and we still hadn't told them. And finally I thought I was gonna burst at the seems from staying quiet, cuz i knew so clearly what we were supposed to do, but God was really trying to teach me to be mature and not just blurt what I think, and to just really seek what he wants me to do. Finally they asked me what I thought we should do. And I said, our time here is done, its time to move on and see other things. Like it was so clear to me what we should do.
So ya we decided to go. I don't think that we were all united at that point, like one person in our group really wanted comfort, and ya they wanted to stay where we were becuz we had something good. And I was kinda like well staying here definately doesn't increase my faith ya know? So ya we told them, and we finished up working, and then one of their employees (FIonna) drove us into Queenstown. Right before we left Sandra had given us an envelope and told us to split it equally. Well we waited til after Fionna had dropped us off to check how much money there was....Well they had given us 150$!!!!! Thats how much we should have paid them if we had paid to stay there! It was so amazing, we were in shock, we all started crying, especially since we were pretty much out of money. We still didn't know if we were gonna go to Dunedin or Invercargil, but it didn't matter, cuz we now had money! So ya we started hitching, and there was one team that we had been praying hardcore lots for, and I had asked God to just show me that they were all right. Well we got picked up right away by 2 Israelis guys. And so ya sometimes you don't really feel open to share with them what you are doing, so I decided to just throw out the fact that we are graduating in Israel to them and see what they said. Well they just started laughing, and it turns out that they had spent 2 days with the group i had been praying for and they had them on video tape and they wouldn't let us leave until we watched them. It was sooo cool to see God answer a prayer like that.
So we were pretty much on cloud 9. The 2 guys dropped us off at a junction between Dunedin and Invercargil. Hans and Julianna started to debate again. Well I finally spoke up when it seemed like their debates were going no where. And i was like 'hey why don't we go wait by the turn for Invercargil for a half hour and if we don't get pick up we will switch to the Dunedin one' Well a half an hour in hitching isn't that long of a time, so that seemed to appease both sides...cuz the one who wanted to stay at the camp also wanted to go to Dunedin and not Invercargil. Well k we started waiting at 4 pm. No kidding at 4:25 a bus came and picked us up and drove us like a km away from the turn and dropped us off cuz it had to turn. It was the funniest thing ever. Like it was such huge confirmation that this is where we were supposed to be going. And a little while longer a German girl named Kate stopped to pick us up. She was quite sweet although Hans and Julianna were kinda scared of her. She really didn't like americans so the fact that I was Canadian kinda saved us. But at one point we were talking about how much safer hitching in New Zealand is and she was like actually its not that safe, 'I could take you to my farm, chop you into little pieces and burn you alive and noone would know.' So that was a little creepy, and you should have seen Hans and Julianna's faces, and I just starting laughing. Laughing seems to be like my first reaction (like the time in the seedy hotel on whyte ave...Emily coughcough :) ) But ya it was good. And she dropped us off in a little hole town called Garston.
Hmm there is like a bar in Garston and thats all. THe thought of being left there kinda scared me. But of course God is faithful and eventually someone came and picked us up...after quite a while of singing and dancing on the side of the road. We pretty much sang the same song the whole time, a song by Jonny Cash called Folsom Prison Blues. But we changed the words to stuff about hitch hiking :) Anyways we got picked up by this guy named Cam. Turns out he had picked up another Group...one of the married couples Doug and Allison. IT was so amazing that 3 of us fit into that vehicle. It was a truck, it had like a big kayak in the back along with a big dog, and it had a whole bunch of stuff in the truck also. and it had a little puppy in the front also. Doug and Allison could not believe that we could fit into that small of a place. And I guess also, the dog puked and pooped on Doug. I found that really funny. Cam the driver was ya he was a proffessional hunter, haha he got dropped off...usually by helicopter into the mountains for a month at a time to hunt possums. Possums. Oh my goodness is that not the funniest thing you ever heard? he hunts possums for a living? That is the funniest thing ever!
But ya so we get dropped off in Invercargil at like 9:00pm. And its funny cuz I am totally learning to live in the moment, cuz while i was in the truck i did not give a single thought to what would happen once we got to INvercargil, and I didn't even notice how dark it was getting. So earlier that day I had been like, I feel like we are gonna spend the night with Christian family. And so we prayed into that, but we had a skeptic on the team. So logic prevailing we had to go look for a hostel. The hostel was full so we were gonna walk to another one, although I told my group that we weren't gonna stay in a hostel...and that just becuz we had a bunch of money doesn't mean we have to spend it. Well on our way to the other hostel we passed this builiding called the 'advice bureau' and i was like guys lets go in there...we definately need advice. It totally said it was closed so just jokingly we were gonna try to get in. Well Julianna opened the door and there were a whole bunch of women chatting and they were kinda alarmed that someone had walked in. But then a woman walked out and asked what we wanted, and i was like well it said advice bureau and we have no place to stay! so she told us where this campground was. So we walk to it, and its right behind a prison, yes thats right a prison. ONe with barbed wire all around the top. And Hans was like...I don't that that its ornamental decoration. And it was so creepy, we were walking along the train tracks and ya it was really dark and it was raining, it seemed like such a horror movie. But ya there was noone at this campground and it was sooo creepy.
So we heard about this other hostel, and meanwhile this van was like circling the street, and I jokingly said that it was probly a woman from the meeting and she was coming to pick us up. BUt then it drove past us. So we made our way to another hostel only to realize that it was full, and ya the atmosphere of our group was pretty down. And I was like you guys, God keeps his word. Just then that same van pulls up and ya this woman is like do you need a place to stay? And we were like heck yes! And ya it turns out this woman is a Christian woman, who used to live in the town that the YWAM base here is. And ya it was so wonderful. She took us home to her family. IT was really a blessing, cuz God had totally prepared her heart for this in advance, through a whole bunch of circumstances. So God was working in advance. And ya she fed us mini pancakes..they called them pikelets, and when she offered me pikeletts i was thinking like the fish things :) But ya it was the best meal ever. She had like 6 kids, 4 of whom we met. But it was such a blessing, but I guess she was blessed by us too. They were such a beautiful wonderful family. But the Mom wasn;t working this year, so they were kinda down on money, but like they were sooo generous to us. So seperately all 3 of us had decided that we were supposed to give this family the 150$. And we did. THe next day, Michelle (the mom) and 2 of her kids, Josh and Kallum took us down to Bluff! The last spot of land before antarctica...it was sooo cool! It was raining so hard though. And we had real fish and chips...so good. Anyways ya we left the money on the table in an envelope so they didn't discover it until they got home and we were gone.
Anyways I am not done, but ya I will update probly tomorrow, sorry this is getting so long. And its really late right now, well hahaha oh man i am getting old, its only 11:45pm...haha buit ya thats not really late, but ya we have lights out and its at 10:30...isnt that funny. back in the day i stayed up like all night. but ya anyways ciao for now
Angee
So we woke up at that camp on Wednesday and we still didn't know what we were gonna do. And it was kinda weighing us down it seemed, and Sandra and Kenneth wanted to know our answer (they are the people who owned the holiday park) It was kinda raining out so we were kinda taking that into consideration, and someone actually said that maybe since its raining God does not want us to go. And then I was like well he also said that being a Christian is no walk in the park :) So we did some work for the park like making beds and scrubbing down the rooms. Then we breaked for lunch and we still hadn't told them. And finally I thought I was gonna burst at the seems from staying quiet, cuz i knew so clearly what we were supposed to do, but God was really trying to teach me to be mature and not just blurt what I think, and to just really seek what he wants me to do. Finally they asked me what I thought we should do. And I said, our time here is done, its time to move on and see other things. Like it was so clear to me what we should do.
So ya we decided to go. I don't think that we were all united at that point, like one person in our group really wanted comfort, and ya they wanted to stay where we were becuz we had something good. And I was kinda like well staying here definately doesn't increase my faith ya know? So ya we told them, and we finished up working, and then one of their employees (FIonna) drove us into Queenstown. Right before we left Sandra had given us an envelope and told us to split it equally. Well we waited til after Fionna had dropped us off to check how much money there was....Well they had given us 150$!!!!! Thats how much we should have paid them if we had paid to stay there! It was so amazing, we were in shock, we all started crying, especially since we were pretty much out of money. We still didn't know if we were gonna go to Dunedin or Invercargil, but it didn't matter, cuz we now had money! So ya we started hitching, and there was one team that we had been praying hardcore lots for, and I had asked God to just show me that they were all right. Well we got picked up right away by 2 Israelis guys. And so ya sometimes you don't really feel open to share with them what you are doing, so I decided to just throw out the fact that we are graduating in Israel to them and see what they said. Well they just started laughing, and it turns out that they had spent 2 days with the group i had been praying for and they had them on video tape and they wouldn't let us leave until we watched them. It was sooo cool to see God answer a prayer like that.
So we were pretty much on cloud 9. The 2 guys dropped us off at a junction between Dunedin and Invercargil. Hans and Julianna started to debate again. Well I finally spoke up when it seemed like their debates were going no where. And i was like 'hey why don't we go wait by the turn for Invercargil for a half hour and if we don't get pick up we will switch to the Dunedin one' Well a half an hour in hitching isn't that long of a time, so that seemed to appease both sides...cuz the one who wanted to stay at the camp also wanted to go to Dunedin and not Invercargil. Well k we started waiting at 4 pm. No kidding at 4:25 a bus came and picked us up and drove us like a km away from the turn and dropped us off cuz it had to turn. It was the funniest thing ever. Like it was such huge confirmation that this is where we were supposed to be going. And a little while longer a German girl named Kate stopped to pick us up. She was quite sweet although Hans and Julianna were kinda scared of her. She really didn't like americans so the fact that I was Canadian kinda saved us. But at one point we were talking about how much safer hitching in New Zealand is and she was like actually its not that safe, 'I could take you to my farm, chop you into little pieces and burn you alive and noone would know.' So that was a little creepy, and you should have seen Hans and Julianna's faces, and I just starting laughing. Laughing seems to be like my first reaction (like the time in the seedy hotel on whyte ave...Emily coughcough :) ) But ya it was good. And she dropped us off in a little hole town called Garston.
Hmm there is like a bar in Garston and thats all. THe thought of being left there kinda scared me. But of course God is faithful and eventually someone came and picked us up...after quite a while of singing and dancing on the side of the road. We pretty much sang the same song the whole time, a song by Jonny Cash called Folsom Prison Blues. But we changed the words to stuff about hitch hiking :) Anyways we got picked up by this guy named Cam. Turns out he had picked up another Group...one of the married couples Doug and Allison. IT was so amazing that 3 of us fit into that vehicle. It was a truck, it had like a big kayak in the back along with a big dog, and it had a whole bunch of stuff in the truck also. and it had a little puppy in the front also. Doug and Allison could not believe that we could fit into that small of a place. And I guess also, the dog puked and pooped on Doug. I found that really funny. Cam the driver was ya he was a proffessional hunter, haha he got dropped off...usually by helicopter into the mountains for a month at a time to hunt possums. Possums. Oh my goodness is that not the funniest thing you ever heard? he hunts possums for a living? That is the funniest thing ever!
But ya so we get dropped off in Invercargil at like 9:00pm. And its funny cuz I am totally learning to live in the moment, cuz while i was in the truck i did not give a single thought to what would happen once we got to INvercargil, and I didn't even notice how dark it was getting. So earlier that day I had been like, I feel like we are gonna spend the night with Christian family. And so we prayed into that, but we had a skeptic on the team. So logic prevailing we had to go look for a hostel. The hostel was full so we were gonna walk to another one, although I told my group that we weren't gonna stay in a hostel...and that just becuz we had a bunch of money doesn't mean we have to spend it. Well on our way to the other hostel we passed this builiding called the 'advice bureau' and i was like guys lets go in there...we definately need advice. It totally said it was closed so just jokingly we were gonna try to get in. Well Julianna opened the door and there were a whole bunch of women chatting and they were kinda alarmed that someone had walked in. But then a woman walked out and asked what we wanted, and i was like well it said advice bureau and we have no place to stay! so she told us where this campground was. So we walk to it, and its right behind a prison, yes thats right a prison. ONe with barbed wire all around the top. And Hans was like...I don't that that its ornamental decoration. And it was so creepy, we were walking along the train tracks and ya it was really dark and it was raining, it seemed like such a horror movie. But ya there was noone at this campground and it was sooo creepy.
So we heard about this other hostel, and meanwhile this van was like circling the street, and I jokingly said that it was probly a woman from the meeting and she was coming to pick us up. BUt then it drove past us. So we made our way to another hostel only to realize that it was full, and ya the atmosphere of our group was pretty down. And I was like you guys, God keeps his word. Just then that same van pulls up and ya this woman is like do you need a place to stay? And we were like heck yes! And ya it turns out this woman is a Christian woman, who used to live in the town that the YWAM base here is. And ya it was so wonderful. She took us home to her family. IT was really a blessing, cuz God had totally prepared her heart for this in advance, through a whole bunch of circumstances. So God was working in advance. And ya she fed us mini pancakes..they called them pikelets, and when she offered me pikeletts i was thinking like the fish things :) But ya it was the best meal ever. She had like 6 kids, 4 of whom we met. But it was such a blessing, but I guess she was blessed by us too. They were such a beautiful wonderful family. But the Mom wasn;t working this year, so they were kinda down on money, but like they were sooo generous to us. So seperately all 3 of us had decided that we were supposed to give this family the 150$. And we did. THe next day, Michelle (the mom) and 2 of her kids, Josh and Kallum took us down to Bluff! The last spot of land before antarctica...it was sooo cool! It was raining so hard though. And we had real fish and chips...so good. Anyways ya we left the money on the table in an envelope so they didn't discover it until they got home and we were gone.
Anyways I am not done, but ya I will update probly tomorrow, sorry this is getting so long. And its really late right now, well hahaha oh man i am getting old, its only 11:45pm...haha buit ya thats not really late, but ya we have lights out and its at 10:30...isnt that funny. back in the day i stayed up like all night. but ya anyways ciao for now
Angee
Monday, March 06, 2006
Part 2...stuff happens
So ya if you just started reading this one, go to the previous post cuz you have to read the first post inorder to understand this one. Cuz ya its a series of stories about my faith week.
In my last blog I left you saying that we were sleeping under a table. Well morning came...after a super dooper cold night, and it was still pouring rain. So Hans, Julianna and I we took communion, cuz we knew that it was gonna be kinda hard to hitch in the pouring rain and we thought that we should stay united. And then we had a nice breakfast of peanut butter and bred. Very messy cuz we had no utensils or anything. So after awhile, after realizing that the rain was not subsiding we started to go out to the road.
This karazy looking van picked us up. It was kinda like my dads old van, one of the ones with the built in beds. But ya you could tell that they didn't really wanna drive us, so at the next opportune time they decided to stop for breakfast and they were like it shoiuld be easy to hitch from here. Well it wasn't so we decided that we would go in and order some coffee. So we just chilled at this restaurant/gift shop in the middle of nowhere, and watched like 4 or 5 tour buses come and go. Each tour bus either filled old people or japanese tourists. Anyways so finally after chilling for awhile and reading song of songs...our chapter for the week we decided to go wait outside cuz the rain had kinda subsided. And Hans whipped out his guitar and we were dancing and singing jonny cash songs on the side of the road....just to paint a picture I need to tell you all the luggage that we had one big suitcase, 2 over the shoulder bags, and a guitar...like really some people are willing to pick up hitch hikers but like 3 with that much luggage...we were so blessed to be picked up, but man you should have seen the little spaces we crammed ourselves into.
Anyways so finally this couple...Warren and Penny picked us up. They were so nice, we even had a pit stop with them and they fed us good food. Well it seemed good...it was ham & cheese sandwich, and most of you should know that i dont really enjoy ham...But i sure did then :) And they drove us to Wanaka and they were carrying on to Queenstown so they let us have an hour break in Wanaka and then we would carry on to Queenstown with them. Wanaka is so amazingly beautiful. I like it way better than Queenstown although they are quite similar, but Queenstown is way way more touristy. And we also ran into those 2 guys Pete and Shane again, so that was cool.
So we finally got to Queenstown at like 5 or 6 pm. We tried a few hostels to see if we could work for accomodation but they either said no, or they already had people. So we sent Hans to work busking (playing his guitar for money) and me and Julianna wandered around the town looking for accomodation. Finally we decided that we would cover more ground if we split up. By this time its getting to be like 7:30ish I would say, and its kinda starting to drizzle. I had volunteered to walk to this hostel at the top of this rather large hill. I even stopped at expensive hotels on the way up. They just looked at me like i was nuts. THis whole thing was a very humbling experience, cuz I had to rely on other people for rides, and like the touristy people looked down on us becuz we had no money. IT was very insightful into how people who really don't have money or homes live. So ya I was at the top of the hill and i was like God what on earth are we gonna do... I would have just slept outside but Queenstown is one of those nice places where cops arrest youi if you sleep outside, although it would have made more of a storyu if we were arrested on faith week. And as I am walking down the hill I look to my right and there is this church/school thing. And i was like maybe it is open...so I go try the door and it was locked and i was like oh man and then I saw a sign for an office. So i decided that I really had nothing to lose. So I went in and it was open and there was this man sitting at the computer. I told him my dilema, and how i had no place to stay and blahblahblah. And he had just moved to town so he didn't really know what to tell me. But he ended upo calling the principal and she told him to tell me to call this place called the 'Shotover Holiday Park.' Well hallelujah they had a place for us to stay! So I ran back down the hill and told Julianna and Hans that I had found us a place to stay and the guy (Peter) was gonna take us.
OK at this time I was under the impression that it was just a camp ground and they were gonna give us a tent to use. Well we showed up and it was amazing. THere were cabins, dorm rooms, yes therre were places to tent and stuch, but ya it was amazing! And the owners turned out to be Christians and they had had YWAMers stay and work for them in December. THey were excited to have us and we got 2 rooms to stay in. They were amazing. And we also got to shower and there was a kitchen there. If we had acuytally paid it would have been $25.00 a person and we had 3 of us and we ended up staying for 2 nights! So the next day we did some gardening there, but it was really fun. And then the woman (Sandra was gonna drive us into town so we could chill but we had to hitch a ride back)
Well that morning I had woken uop and told Julianna that we were gonna run into another group and I told her who i thought, a group with Geoff, Katie, and Kristen. Well my group and I were chillin at the beach and then I heard someone call my name and it was them. We had like one of those big ruinions and we ran into eachothers arms and we were like we missed you so much. And people had asked us how long we had seen eachother in, and we were like umm 3 days. It was good times indeed and then another team pulled up (Justin, Laura and Rebecca) but they had to hurry away, but it was a good day.
So we hitched back and we caught a ride with this pretty cool guy named Jeremy, but I think he had been drinking but thankfully it was just a short ride. And we had moved up in the world, we were no longer eating only peanut butter and instant noodle packs, that night we had penne and tomato sauce...it was pretty good.
The camp had offered to let us stay another night, for a 3rd night. And it was kinda a fight in our team, I totally knew that we shouldn't stay. But it was funny, for most of you who know me, you pretty much know that I can't stay quiet for long. Well I did, I stayed quiet and I let Hans and Julianna like duke it out so to speak and debate and debate and such. And then finally they would ask me what I thought and i would tell them straight up what I thought.
BUt that is a story for next time, stay tooned for day 5!
Angee...oh if anything i wrote is unclear or incoherent, like i tend to be, tell me and i will explain more. cuz ya i tend to not speak properly, and like one time we were having fish sticks and one was acutally fish shaped, and instead of saying that it was fish shaped i said that it was sh** faced. Real loud in the middle of the dining hall. i was acutally embarassed.
In my last blog I left you saying that we were sleeping under a table. Well morning came...after a super dooper cold night, and it was still pouring rain. So Hans, Julianna and I we took communion, cuz we knew that it was gonna be kinda hard to hitch in the pouring rain and we thought that we should stay united. And then we had a nice breakfast of peanut butter and bred. Very messy cuz we had no utensils or anything. So after awhile, after realizing that the rain was not subsiding we started to go out to the road.
This karazy looking van picked us up. It was kinda like my dads old van, one of the ones with the built in beds. But ya you could tell that they didn't really wanna drive us, so at the next opportune time they decided to stop for breakfast and they were like it shoiuld be easy to hitch from here. Well it wasn't so we decided that we would go in and order some coffee. So we just chilled at this restaurant/gift shop in the middle of nowhere, and watched like 4 or 5 tour buses come and go. Each tour bus either filled old people or japanese tourists. Anyways so finally after chilling for awhile and reading song of songs...our chapter for the week we decided to go wait outside cuz the rain had kinda subsided. And Hans whipped out his guitar and we were dancing and singing jonny cash songs on the side of the road....just to paint a picture I need to tell you all the luggage that we had one big suitcase, 2 over the shoulder bags, and a guitar...like really some people are willing to pick up hitch hikers but like 3 with that much luggage...we were so blessed to be picked up, but man you should have seen the little spaces we crammed ourselves into.
Anyways so finally this couple...Warren and Penny picked us up. They were so nice, we even had a pit stop with them and they fed us good food. Well it seemed good...it was ham & cheese sandwich, and most of you should know that i dont really enjoy ham...But i sure did then :) And they drove us to Wanaka and they were carrying on to Queenstown so they let us have an hour break in Wanaka and then we would carry on to Queenstown with them. Wanaka is so amazingly beautiful. I like it way better than Queenstown although they are quite similar, but Queenstown is way way more touristy. And we also ran into those 2 guys Pete and Shane again, so that was cool.
So we finally got to Queenstown at like 5 or 6 pm. We tried a few hostels to see if we could work for accomodation but they either said no, or they already had people. So we sent Hans to work busking (playing his guitar for money) and me and Julianna wandered around the town looking for accomodation. Finally we decided that we would cover more ground if we split up. By this time its getting to be like 7:30ish I would say, and its kinda starting to drizzle. I had volunteered to walk to this hostel at the top of this rather large hill. I even stopped at expensive hotels on the way up. They just looked at me like i was nuts. THis whole thing was a very humbling experience, cuz I had to rely on other people for rides, and like the touristy people looked down on us becuz we had no money. IT was very insightful into how people who really don't have money or homes live. So ya I was at the top of the hill and i was like God what on earth are we gonna do... I would have just slept outside but Queenstown is one of those nice places where cops arrest youi if you sleep outside, although it would have made more of a storyu if we were arrested on faith week. And as I am walking down the hill I look to my right and there is this church/school thing. And i was like maybe it is open...so I go try the door and it was locked and i was like oh man and then I saw a sign for an office. So i decided that I really had nothing to lose. So I went in and it was open and there was this man sitting at the computer. I told him my dilema, and how i had no place to stay and blahblahblah. And he had just moved to town so he didn't really know what to tell me. But he ended upo calling the principal and she told him to tell me to call this place called the 'Shotover Holiday Park.' Well hallelujah they had a place for us to stay! So I ran back down the hill and told Julianna and Hans that I had found us a place to stay and the guy (Peter) was gonna take us.
OK at this time I was under the impression that it was just a camp ground and they were gonna give us a tent to use. Well we showed up and it was amazing. THere were cabins, dorm rooms, yes therre were places to tent and stuch, but ya it was amazing! And the owners turned out to be Christians and they had had YWAMers stay and work for them in December. THey were excited to have us and we got 2 rooms to stay in. They were amazing. And we also got to shower and there was a kitchen there. If we had acuytally paid it would have been $25.00 a person and we had 3 of us and we ended up staying for 2 nights! So the next day we did some gardening there, but it was really fun. And then the woman (Sandra was gonna drive us into town so we could chill but we had to hitch a ride back)
Well that morning I had woken uop and told Julianna that we were gonna run into another group and I told her who i thought, a group with Geoff, Katie, and Kristen. Well my group and I were chillin at the beach and then I heard someone call my name and it was them. We had like one of those big ruinions and we ran into eachothers arms and we were like we missed you so much. And people had asked us how long we had seen eachother in, and we were like umm 3 days. It was good times indeed and then another team pulled up (Justin, Laura and Rebecca) but they had to hurry away, but it was a good day.
So we hitched back and we caught a ride with this pretty cool guy named Jeremy, but I think he had been drinking but thankfully it was just a short ride. And we had moved up in the world, we were no longer eating only peanut butter and instant noodle packs, that night we had penne and tomato sauce...it was pretty good.
The camp had offered to let us stay another night, for a 3rd night. And it was kinda a fight in our team, I totally knew that we shouldn't stay. But it was funny, for most of you who know me, you pretty much know that I can't stay quiet for long. Well I did, I stayed quiet and I let Hans and Julianna like duke it out so to speak and debate and debate and such. And then finally they would ask me what I thought and i would tell them straight up what I thought.
BUt that is a story for next time, stay tooned for day 5!
Angee...oh if anything i wrote is unclear or incoherent, like i tend to be, tell me and i will explain more. cuz ya i tend to not speak properly, and like one time we were having fish sticks and one was acutally fish shaped, and instead of saying that it was fish shaped i said that it was sh** faced. Real loud in the middle of the dining hall. i was acutally embarassed.
Sunday, March 05, 2006
Back from Faith Week
HEYHEY!
I am finally back..back from faith week. What a long amazing week it has been! Like seriously God is sooo incredibly faithful. I don't even know where to start. Ok well I will jump in. Last Saturday a staff member dropped us off in pretty much the middle of nowhere. My team...Julianna, Hans, and I we intended to go east. But right off the bat we headed west through arthurs pass (the area that narnia was filmed in) so right after we were dropped off we prayed and then not 2 minutes after we were picked up. So all 3 people in my group we all used to drink a lot in the past but we aren't allowd to drink while we are in school, but ya the first guy brought us to a bar and was offering to pay for our drinks. We all had to turn him down, but it was so tempting, especially to the other 2 becuz ya its not every day taht you have free alcohol offered to you. This guy who was driving us then dropped us off at Kamura junction (if you feel like looking up the places I went on a road map)
After we were dropped off we ended up walking for about 2 hours down the west coast, it was absolutely amazing I tell ya. And we decided that at 5pm we would switch sides of the road and wait for 5 cars to go by. becuz since we had been walking for so long we didn't know if that was the direction that we were supposed to be going. No kidding, at 4:58 a car picked us up. It was amazing and it was this young guy named Mat. He was only intending to take us to the next town, but he ended up driving us to 2 hours down the road to a place called Franz Joseph. Mat dropped us off at a hostel so we could see if we could work for accomodation...but they said no. Just then I noticed a guy who i had met 2 weeks ago at the bouldering competition on castle hill. Well we went up to him and he ended up letting us stay at his house! And he was having a barbecue. So we got steak on our first night of faith week. All the people who were at the barbecue were conservation officers...preserving wildlife and ya the kiwi bird and things like that. and they was this karazy guy named Lars, and he hunted these things called shammys which are goat like things and ya after he ate all the meat off of the bones (like a cave man) he carved the bone into like a flute...it was just karazyness.
Then the next day we set on our way. Man the scenery was breathtaking, i honestly got dizzy looking at all fo God's amazing amazing creation. The camera doesn't do it any justice. But ya we got picked upby 2 nice english men...pete and shane. They were so nice, they dropped us off in the next town...Fox Glacier. Well of course my team had to spend some of the little amounts of money that we had on coffee cuz they were coffee addicts. But ya then we set on our way again, and we waited for a bit...cuz we couldnt walk and hitch cuz the roads were soooo windy and thru the mountains so there were no spots that poeple could pick us up. well who drives up but Pete and Shane. So they invite us to go see the glacier with them. Pete had parkinsons so he couldnt walk properly, but he was an amazing man cuz we had to climb and walk sooo stinkin far up huge hills and such to get to this glacier. But it was worth it. Gods creation is sooo freaking amazing, I honestly don't know how people can believe that it evolved from an ameoba. But ya anyways, so we ended up driving with Pete and Shane to a place called Haast....By the way if you ever go to New Zealand, do not go to Haast! Its the lamest little place ever. So we tried to hitch for a about 3 hours from Haast, but noone would pick us up cuz everfyone who was passing was karazy tourists...darn those tourists :)
But around 10 this karazy checkoslavakian man came by, and he yelled at us for not having a place to stay and it was gonna rain and then he left. Well we were like ok, and then about 10 minutes later he came back and he was like get in. And so we got in and we had no idea where we were going becuz he iddnt really speak english. And we were racing towards the mountains and it was getting darker and pouring down more rain by the second. and as you may know i have a super over active imagination, so i was thinking oh my goodness this is where i die. and i was praying so hardcore in my head :)
But he dropped us off at this visitor spot, where there was this shelter with a table in it and we ended up spending the night under a table. But it was actually really fun and we stayed dry which was a very good thing.
But ya i dont feel like writing anymore and this is getting really long so i will update you on the rest of the week later.
Ciao
I am finally back..back from faith week. What a long amazing week it has been! Like seriously God is sooo incredibly faithful. I don't even know where to start. Ok well I will jump in. Last Saturday a staff member dropped us off in pretty much the middle of nowhere. My team...Julianna, Hans, and I we intended to go east. But right off the bat we headed west through arthurs pass (the area that narnia was filmed in) so right after we were dropped off we prayed and then not 2 minutes after we were picked up. So all 3 people in my group we all used to drink a lot in the past but we aren't allowd to drink while we are in school, but ya the first guy brought us to a bar and was offering to pay for our drinks. We all had to turn him down, but it was so tempting, especially to the other 2 becuz ya its not every day taht you have free alcohol offered to you. This guy who was driving us then dropped us off at Kamura junction (if you feel like looking up the places I went on a road map)
After we were dropped off we ended up walking for about 2 hours down the west coast, it was absolutely amazing I tell ya. And we decided that at 5pm we would switch sides of the road and wait for 5 cars to go by. becuz since we had been walking for so long we didn't know if that was the direction that we were supposed to be going. No kidding, at 4:58 a car picked us up. It was amazing and it was this young guy named Mat. He was only intending to take us to the next town, but he ended up driving us to 2 hours down the road to a place called Franz Joseph. Mat dropped us off at a hostel so we could see if we could work for accomodation...but they said no. Just then I noticed a guy who i had met 2 weeks ago at the bouldering competition on castle hill. Well we went up to him and he ended up letting us stay at his house! And he was having a barbecue. So we got steak on our first night of faith week. All the people who were at the barbecue were conservation officers...preserving wildlife and ya the kiwi bird and things like that. and they was this karazy guy named Lars, and he hunted these things called shammys which are goat like things and ya after he ate all the meat off of the bones (like a cave man) he carved the bone into like a flute...it was just karazyness.
Then the next day we set on our way. Man the scenery was breathtaking, i honestly got dizzy looking at all fo God's amazing amazing creation. The camera doesn't do it any justice. But ya we got picked upby 2 nice english men...pete and shane. They were so nice, they dropped us off in the next town...Fox Glacier. Well of course my team had to spend some of the little amounts of money that we had on coffee cuz they were coffee addicts. But ya then we set on our way again, and we waited for a bit...cuz we couldnt walk and hitch cuz the roads were soooo windy and thru the mountains so there were no spots that poeple could pick us up. well who drives up but Pete and Shane. So they invite us to go see the glacier with them. Pete had parkinsons so he couldnt walk properly, but he was an amazing man cuz we had to climb and walk sooo stinkin far up huge hills and such to get to this glacier. But it was worth it. Gods creation is sooo freaking amazing, I honestly don't know how people can believe that it evolved from an ameoba. But ya anyways, so we ended up driving with Pete and Shane to a place called Haast....By the way if you ever go to New Zealand, do not go to Haast! Its the lamest little place ever. So we tried to hitch for a about 3 hours from Haast, but noone would pick us up cuz everfyone who was passing was karazy tourists...darn those tourists :)
But around 10 this karazy checkoslavakian man came by, and he yelled at us for not having a place to stay and it was gonna rain and then he left. Well we were like ok, and then about 10 minutes later he came back and he was like get in. And so we got in and we had no idea where we were going becuz he iddnt really speak english. And we were racing towards the mountains and it was getting darker and pouring down more rain by the second. and as you may know i have a super over active imagination, so i was thinking oh my goodness this is where i die. and i was praying so hardcore in my head :)
But he dropped us off at this visitor spot, where there was this shelter with a table in it and we ended up spending the night under a table. But it was actually really fun and we stayed dry which was a very good thing.
But ya i dont feel like writing anymore and this is getting really long so i will update you on the rest of the week later.
Ciao
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