Happy to be Home!

Man, as awesome as it was to be able to stay at the Marine Outreach base, it is so awesome to be home. The other base was super fancy and modern with flat screen TVs and pillow top mattresses, but it was exhausting being in a room with 11 other girls and having to clean EVERYTHING every day. I mean, why do windows need to be cleaned every day? That is unnecessary. And I always felt like I couldn't relax because I was scared to break something or make a mess. Man, our base is so much better. And when we go on outreach we won't have to go through shock because we are used to dirty things and stuff that is broken or doesn't work. Yay!

And the best part about being home is that we get to be back in our normal cottages! Hannah R, Noemi, Marit and I had our first heart-to-heart in what seems like ages! We missed each other. And we found out that last week all of us thought that the others were mad at us or didn't like us. So funny. I thought that Marit didn't like me or want to hang out with me, Hannah thought that Marit didn't want to hang out with her and Noemi thought that no one wanted to hang out with her, and Marit thought that Hannah and I didn't want to hang out with her. Oh man. All because we were not in our cottage together and were split up all the time. We are happy to be back together, peeing together, brushing our teeth together, and farting/burping because we are comfortable together. Ahhh. So nice to be home.

Today was so awesome. I had to do absolutely nothing, except write a song, but that is fun and easy. So I slept in, had some breaky, had a little worship practice session for tomorrows base worship because I get to play guitar woot woot! Then I wrote my song for this week. The assignment was to write a short/repetitive song that is about 4 lines maximum about something that I have learned on DTS so far. And then play it for the other Musoh's and they would sing along. So I wrote mine on trusting God to provide and have a plan for my future. The lyrics are:

I know that you have a plan for me, God
A plan better than I could dream of
I will (I can't remember this part, if you are lucky I will write it in tomorrows blog)
I trust in you

It turned out pretty swell I'd say. But Miranda was the only person who told me that my song was awesome and that she really liked it. So right now she is the only person on my list of people I like.

After I wrote my song I went for a run. Oh man. That felt SO GOOD. I have not had any exercise in two weeks because of circuit riders and I am pretty sure I have gained at least 10 pounds. So I ran for a long time. I ran for 53 minutes. Then I did yoga outside for about an hour, and then I laid in the grass and let the sun shine down on me for a while. It was so AMAZING. I am so excited to get back into our regular schedule so that I can stop getting fatter by the day. But man, I feel so much better after that. So relaxed.

During our meeting this evening, I performed my song for everyone and when I was done, Kyle was making gestures at me indicating that my face was really red and that I must have been really embarrassed... Nope. Not embarrassed. Just extremely burnt from my day in the sun! Bahaha! So funny. Who gets sun burned in New Zealand? It constantly rains and is cold. But I have skillz at getting burnt, yo.

I also semi cleaned my room today. Kat and Anne are probably so happy right now. They will be able to walk on the floor for a few days. Until another tornado hits. Kat has started calling our room the Bom shelter. I think it is quite fitting.

Noemi had an awesome song today. The lyrics were so good. I think they were:

I believe
Even though I may not see
Take away my unbelief

Everyone loved it!

Also, I feel that I should come clean about something. A few weeks ago, Schnegg and I decided to be in a relationship on facebook. It was a joke. But apparently many of my friends have been believing that it was true this whole time! Sorry guys! But it was a pretty good joke, right? I can just picture the conversations "I can't believe Steph would get into a relationship so fast... Who is this guy? Does he even speak English?" (Haha Schnegg) Oh man. I talked to my bestie Emily on skype yesterday and she honestly thought that I was dating Schnegg. Hahaha!

But this is the story: One day at a meal time, I told Schnegg that I had a boyfriend named Lucas (Lucas is one of the little 4 year old cuties on the base and I love him and we chat about worms and dirt and such things), and I was scanning around the room to point Lucas out to him, but when I was pointing at Schnegg he said "Oh me me! I'm your boyfriend". And that is how it started. Then we decided that it would be funny to put it on facebook and see what everyone says. And now it is just funny. We always sit together and when we go neat places we get cheesy photos together. But he is actually in love with a girl that he knows from Switzerland and it is super cute! <3 Students are not allowed to date on DTS, and I am quite alright with that! But it is fun to have a fake boyfriend. He is a really good fake boyfriend, except today he was in the soundproof recording room with Hannah D, and no one else... I think I will unfriend Hannah. :P