I'M HERE!!! :)
... sitting in a Mcdonalds and enjoying the wifi that I found... for free! Ha I'm so sneaky:)
Anyways. Got here yesterday at around 3 pm. Got here with 3 other girls, all from Canada, and have 4 staff people pick us up at the airport. They played a little prank on us which was funny... broke the ice a little bit for sure. :) Got to the YWAM base, and set myself up in a room. My room has two bunkbeds and I share it with 3 other girls. One girl in my room is from Houston, one is from Canada, one from Brazil, one from the Netherlands, and one is from Norway!! All are very very sweet and beautiful. Then after trying to unpack a little bit, went and lined up for dinner around 5:30. Dinner was nice because I got a chance to know a lot of the staff a little bit better.... It's hard differentiating between staff and students because everyone is around the same age... from like 24 - 18. Everybody is SO nice, the staff are really welcoming. We have 4 students from Switzerland, a couple from England, a couple from Norway, one from New Zealand, like 8 students from Canada, and then more from all over the US, Maine, Ohio, Colorado, Houston, Washington State, New Jersey.
I'm LOVING getting to know the different cultures and LOVING the accents... especially that of my friend Izzy, from England. She says "Fizzy drinks" for soda's and "the Loo" for bathroom, and for the word "guys," she says "bloke's." I can listen to this girl talk all day. Amazing. :) I forget how different everything is in different parts of the world!! It was so weird when Izzy asked me what a "penny" was... I was like.... "It's a coin?" then I remembered she's from England. And then I explained to her what each coin meant... like 1 cent, 10 cents, etc. Ha! Also, it was fun watching the Norweigen girls look at us strangely and ask "whats that?" pointing to a box of Goldfish that some girl was eating... all the Texan girls were like "Oh my GOSH you've NEVER heard of Goldfish?" And then the pretty Norweigen girls ate some of the goldfish and thought they were gross and spit them out! Ha! And also, none of them have heard of Oreo's, so my friend Amy (also from Colorado Springs!!) and I are gonna go buy them some Oreo's next time we go to Safeway. :)
So after dinner we went to and played volleyball (... amazing!!) for about 2 hours. THAT was fun getting to know all the staff guys and seeing their competitive sides.
Then today, I woke up to the sound of POURING RAIN. :) It was beautiful. I woke up at around 6:45... which was like 10:45 in CO time... so it was weird to not be too tired when I woke up even tho it was early. After waking up, went to take a shower, finished unpacking a bit, and then a group of 12 of us girls decided to walk to the beach. ...After a nice 2 hour walk.... we FINALLY got to the beach. :)
I didn't mind the long walk because it was fun seeing the city and talking with the girls and just walking around downtown Honolulu... but I was definitely a little tired and ready to take a nap when we actually got the beach.Oh, my gosh the ocean was beautiful. Clear blue water. It was amazing. :)
Walked around the mall a little bit, which was right next to the beach we were at, called Ala Maona. Ate in the food court, went back for another nap on the beach and took the bus back. Except for NONE of us knew where we were going... so I think we missed our bus stop the first time. An hour later... we finally decided to get off and walk, which was good because we were only like 10 minutes away from the base. What an adventure. :) Got back to base. Showered, and hung out with different girls. Everybody here is seriously SO nice, outgoing, loving, its great. I'm enjoying not having a schedule... but looking forward to starting a more serious routine. Tomorrow we start lectures and everything, its awesome. There are about 35 students at our base and I'm excited to meet everybody officially tomorrow!!
Hopefully I'll be able to update a little more soon... excited for all the little adventures God's yet to expose me to! :)
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