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.