Super long post

So it's been a little while since I've had a post, eh?! I'm sitting in the community room and the guys are playing ping pong and playing the song "Girls just wanna have fun." Hmm..... hahaha So in the mornings we have this thing called "Morning tea," we get it every morning, and I love it. It's cut up fruit and cut up pastries-YES!! We look forward to it, as it happens during a little break between lectures. That was just a random little tidbit. So Friday night, the "Forts" team (Sports and Frontiers teams combined) went into Brisbane for a scavenger hunt; we had to get things like "something purple, a red yellow and white straw, toilet paper that has been signed by someone, a newspaper, an empty soday can, a postcard, a religious tract" and a few other things, and we weren't allowed. OH NO MATHEW"S HERE! im taken over by mathew he's now typing stuff that makes no sense, like giant pink banana's and miniature yellow monkey's. to buy anything either. We also had to do a few things, like count all of the seats in the ferris wheel; there were 42.

Every saturday afternoon is called "Go Day." We chose from a list of ministries what we wanted to do every Saturday. I chose going to the "Murray House" which is basically a mental hospital, mostly with elderly though. We went for the first time this Saturday. I met a lady named Davey, from the Phillipeans. She called me "lady Jessica" which was sweet :) And I also met Veronica Margeret. I talked to her for most of the time. She made me laugh because she was kind of a rebellious lady. I asked her if she liked to play games and she replied with "mind games." haha She asked me when I got my hair cut last, where I got my shoes, who was my boyfriend, if I liked another ladies dress, and basically alot of girly things. So next week I am going to bring some nail polish and see if maybe she will let me paint her nails! I could tell that she had some bitterness in her though, and that made me sad. Another lady that I briefly talked to, well I'm not sure what her name is. I asked her a few times, but never could understand. The closest thing that she said that sounded like her name was Chrysanthemum, so until I know her real name, that is what I am going to call her :) The majority of the people there were old, except for one guy who was in his twenties. I can't wait to go back next week! It was really incredible there!!

Last night a few of us girls took a little walk up to a nearby cemetery/church which you could see alot of the city from. It was beautiful! The church was really pretty too, and we took a few pictures. This was my favorite one, Kirstin from Denmark is on the right and I am on the left.

As we were sitting and talking, we heard loud music and sounded maybe like a little concert, in a coffee shop or restaurant or something. So I suggested we try and go find it. So we went in search of this random music. haha needless to say, we did not find it, but we did find a Catholic College, and guessed that maybe the music was coming from dorms somewhere. We almost got lost coming back, almost being we weren't sure if we were going the right way, but ended up back at base! We saw a big (ok, big to us, not to the Aussies) spider on the way home which had woven its web RIGHT next to the sidewalk!!! I think it's called a Huntsman Spider? Here is a picture of it.


On another random note, crossing the street here is fun. At home, you look one way (knowing which way to look because you know which way the cars are coming) and then the other, etc. But here, I get SOO confused as to which way to look! (they drive the opposite ways) So I just make sure to look both ways and book it accross the street as fast as I can because I have no idea where the cars are gonna come from and if I'm gonna get hit or not. haha