Hello all! I would like to appologize to my regular readers! For some reason my computer isn't allowing me to add new blog posts!!! I am so lucky that my lovely roomy Anne is allowing me to borrow her computer!!!
So, yesterday was Saturday, which meant that we got to have our first Music and Worship assignment. The assignment was to write a song using a Psalm, or to write your own Psalm. For inspiration, we took a nature walk. We were driven to the start of a path, and dropped off, and we had to space ourselves out so that we could walk alone, in silence with nature and God. It was such a beautiful walk. It took about 1.5 hours. I stopped along the way to write and eat my lunch.
The walk started off in a sort of farm resembling area, along a stream. There were feilds and rolling hills. The path just followed along this beautiful stream. And gradually, the environment started to become thicker with trees. The trees were all sorts, pine trees, desiduous trees, palm trees, etc. And everything was so nice and green. The water was beautiful and clean and blue. There were a few waterfalls along the way, but my favorite part was that it started to rain towards the end of the walk. I love rain. Even though it rains all the time here, I still love it.
The walk ended at a natural spring. The water is so clean and pure coming from the spring. The water that comes out has been underground for 100 years. It is REALLY COLD. I know this because I jumped in it. It was around 10 degrees celcius. And it wasn't much warmer outside! I literally jumped in and jumped right back out. But it was worth it to swim in that clean water.
I got my water bottle filled with the spring water. There is really expensive bottled water that you can buy here in New Zealand, and they get it from that spring! Cool!
As much as I am happy that I experienced the freezing cold water, it was probably a bad choice, as I was coming down with a cold! OOOOPS. When I got home, I wrote my song and went to bed early.
But to no avail, when I awoke this morning, my head felt soooooo sick. My throat is in pain and it has moved to my ears too. I have been having heat flashes all day. Not fun. But I got to have a nice long nap this afternoon when everyone else was making their songs beautiful. Then before supper we got together and presented our songs to eachother. Some peoples songs were SO AMAZING. I have to admit that I am kind of jealous! But I will get better! And my song was actually pretty good I think, minus the fact that my throat can't handle singing!!!
After dinner, one of the staffers Rich prayed over me for healing from this cold. So I'm hoping it will be better by morning!
Also, hilarious thing that happened today... Hannah D (from tennessee) decided it would be funny to bundle me up nice and warm. So she tightened all of the draw strings on my thrift store winter coat. This made me look like the michelin man. And then she wrapped her scarf around my head. I couldn't see anything! And then she paraded me around and put my hand on everyones face so that I could guess who they were. It was hilarous. And I did really good!!! I got everyone!
Also, shout out to my wonderful cottage mate, Marit! She brought my laundry in for me from the dryer while I was napping so that I didn't have to go out in the cold <3.
And my Carly (my one on one) went home to California yesterday morning. :(. I miss her already! She will be gone for a week and a half for her sisters wedding! I already can't wait for her to return. But she is so cute. She gave me a little notebook to write everything that I would normally want to talk to her about down, so that she can read it when she gets back! She's the best :)
I am excited for tomorrow and the start of a new week!!!
(Also, I will try to figure out why my computer won't let me update my blog!)
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