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