Greetings from Sydney!

So, I'm alive and in Sydney, after sleeping most of the train ride curled up in a ball on the floor - thank you CP bus trips! The things that I can call comfort that other people would die from :-)

We are sitting at out hostel right now, but we can't get in our rooms 'til 1. Which is a real shame :-( But hey, we have free wi-fi!

Last week was loooooong. Like, maybe one of the longest weeks of my life. It didn't seem as bad as some other weeks I can think of, but by the end of it I was pretty much snapping at everyone and not a happy camper. We were doing a divorce care ministry for children all morning, and then I spent all afternoon trying to write my paper for my IS. After three tries I finally finished the dang thing, but at the expense of a whole lot more stress than I ever really wanted to incur.

But it's ok, because I'm in Sydney :-D We're planning on heading out to the beach for most of the day, and then we'll probably come back here and chill and watch a movie. Tomorrow we'll probably explore more, and then beach for a while, and then chill. Wednesday and Thursday we are heading up to Maitland to visit Jesse Ryals, and Friday we are going to visit David from Kingsley. Saturday is open, and Sunday is church (Hillsong maybe?) and the symphony at the Sydney Opera House, I'm all kinds of excited. Then the train ride back and return to school - ugh!

Mostly, I've been feeling like this whole semester is nothing but one giant deadline. The IS is the real killer, especially because the book that we are on now is so incredibly dense - it takes me a good five minutes a page or so, which is nothing anywhere close to my normal reading speed. I understand it, but it's a nightmare getting through it. And then we have all kinds of group projects and such that we have to be working one, at least one of which the "group" is fairly (incredibly) unmotivated.
Really I just care way too much about school, and I shouldn't, and I usually don't; and I don't like it.

Ah well. As the phrase of the last couple days has been: what happens, happens, and you can't do much to change it. Just keep moving on and try not to freak out about things you can't control, and do a lot more trusting - both of God and of other people. I'm not really so good at that.

No pictures yet... The library wireless wouldn't work for me on Friday and we were gone all day Saturday on a day trip, and I led worship on Sunday... Maybe I'll be able to get last week's up while we are here, but don't hold your breath! I promise they'll be up by sometime next Monday though.