To all whom have been checking on here but there has been no updates: im truly sorry for that :) this past week has been very amazing yet difficult at the same time, just because of everything we have learned and the challenges it brings. A huge theme that almost everyone in my school is having trouble with is finding our identy in God, so it almost seems like I have been tearing down everything that I thought I knew and believed in so that Ican build it back up. which is again, difficult, for me, but soo awesome at the same time!!!
Last weekend half of us went to Castle Hill, which is the location for the filming of Narnia (especially the scene of the final battle) and also where they filmed the Rohan parts of The Lord Of The Rings. It is pretty much tons of HUMONGOUS boulders, like the size of houses, clustered around with mountains around it. I can honestly say that it was the most beautiful place that i have ever been. I am planning to put pictures of it up on facebook, it just takes forever and a day to get pictures up on here so im chipping away at it little by little.
We have finally fell into a pretty normal schedule here for during the week, and it goes a little like this: I wake up at 6:30ish in the morning and go down to breakfast till 7:15. then we go into quiet time around the base until 8:15, which is when we have a devotion or just time with God. Then we have work duties, which we all have assigned so that the base stays nice and clean. My duty is to clean the student/staff lounge and kitchen room. At 8:50 we meet in the dining hall for announcements and then depending on the day of the week we have either worship, intercession, or bible study until 10. Again we all meet in the dining hall and then split up according to our DTS into two different classrooms. We have a first session until 11:15 and then we have AFTERNOON TEA TIME!!! This is a british custom thatNew Zealand adopted, and it is the most amazing idea ever. The whole base comes together to eat a little snack and drink tea! It lasts 15 minutes, then we go back to the second session of the day until 1:00, when we have lunch. After lunch we have off until 3:30ish so that whoever is on dish duty for the week can clean up. Depending on the day again we either have community work duties (when we go out and help the people in oxford with whatever they need) or study time or small groups. Most of the time this lasts until supper at 6, and then after supper we will either have the evening off or do something as a base. It is alot crazier around here than I expected, and most of the time when we have free time we are either studying, sleeping, or doing something in the community. It's busy but soo much fun and it is teaching me so much!!
I am in a room with 5 other girls, which I might have said before, but they are all really amazing and we all get along great! Even though it is only the second week here, everyone on the base has been getting along like we've known each other for years. I was talking to one of the girls here about this and she said that it is probably because "We skipped all the small talk introductions like about how many siblings, or what our hobbies are and went right to the deep stuff." Which is so true! Our second day of classes we shared our testimonies and each person here has such a unique and awesome past. I have got such huge respect for some of my classmates because I look at what they have gone through and I'm not sure that I could've come out the other side so close to God and still with hope and faith.
I'm out of things to tell everyone about, but pretty much I can't explain how amazing it is over here!!
Stay tuned for more updates (Which WILL be more often!)
p.s. Im having a bit of trouble getting pictures to upload on here, but as soon as I figure it out, I'll put them up!!
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