You Won't Relent Until You Have it All

Hey Everyone! 

So I don't really know what to tell you! Life here is just amazing! I love my flatmates (which is a really big deal over here), I LOVE my church, I'm meeting lots of people and making some good friends, I love everyone's accents (except all my American friends, not a huge fan, but i still love them! lol).
It's been raining a lot. Me and my friends were going out and got caught in the most massive downpour I have ever experienced! It said on the news that it ended up been 74mm per hour, and it rained for about four hours! Sooo intense, and we were outside when it started! Super horrible! I got an intense sun burn at the beach the other day! It was awful! I couldn't walk for 2 days! And it was super hilarious, I didn't do my sunscreen very well and I had chunks that were like fingerprints all over my chest and back and legs of insanely red burnt skin! People were taking pictures because it was so funny/bad! but I seriously couldn't walk or sleep! Every time I moved I woke up and wanted to kill myself, or at least cut off all my skin! lol! But it's turning into a nice (sorta weird) tan.
Hmmm... I'm not sure what else to tell you guys, I start my real classes tomorrow (monday) and i'm super stoked! I'm practicing my Australian (in Australia they say it like Auztrrrielean, that one's kinda hard to get)! Sweet as (but you have to say it like az or it sounds like ass), keen, reckon, idear, hera (like here), HEAPS, how are you going is a big one here too (so funny). I was at a friend's flat last night and his flatmate is actually an Aussie (what are the odds?) and was giving us lessons! lol! I'm discovering more and more cooking ability, which is super exciting. I made a stir fry yesterday and it wasn't going the way I wanted and I fixed it without even hardly having to think about it, it must have been the holy spirit, because I just did something and don't know where it came from, but it was the worlds best stir fry! lol! haha! 


I'd like to make a little shout out to my amazing boyfriend really quick! He's such a cute boy, he e-mails me like it's his job and he sent me the most beautiful flowers for valentines day! They are just so cute! Don't judge me, but I didn't have a vase or anything to put them in, and I didn't want to put them in an empty water bottle because they were just so pretty, so I went to the recycle room and found an empty wine bottle and cleaned it and took the labels off and put them in there and put some pretty stuff around the neck of the bottle and they look so amazing! Everyone that I've told though thinks that's so gross that I got it out of the recycling, but it was just sitting on the ground, it's not like I went dumpster diving or anything! lol! But it looks so beautiful! Thanks love!
So Australia is not a place to go if you care at all about hair! Just thought I'd let everyone know! If you look at yourself in a mirror more than twice a day, don't bother coming. You will NEVER like the way you look hardly ever! It's just plain discouraging! I've pretty much given up! I've left the house with wet hair more than once so far (which if you know me even a little, is a really big deal and I don't think I've done that since at least grade 9 probably earlier!).


Well, I'm sure I have actual important stuff to tell people, but I really drawing a blank. It's probably due to the fact that sleep here is an illusion (if your reading this and are friends with my boyfriend, I'm not nearly as bad as that). There's just so much to do at night, and it's super warm at night even if you wanted to sleep you couldn't. Two in the morning hardly feels later than 10 because of the lighting and the temperature, so it mostly happens by accident that I stay up way too late. But at least everyone's in the same boat! Anyways, I said all that to tell you that I'm too tired to think right now! lol! 


Last thought then I'm off! I just wanted to mention that I'm so in love with it here! I Love my church, I love my new family, I love my lectures (for the most part), God is so good! I can't remember if I mentioned last time that my wrist was healed on retreat! (if that freaks anyone out, like my non-christian friends, well, i guess that's probably a good thing) but I can say true as day that that bone that was messed up in my wrist actually moved about 3cm and popped itself back where it belongs during service! God is moving fo sho. It's so crazy, I feel like my heart is sometimes in actual pain because it's so excited about life and God and what's going to be happening in the next year and even when I get home. I can't even express it. It's just so crazy and so amazing and so real and comfortable (in an uncomfortable, I know I'm going to have to make some big changes but I'm insanely stoked, sorta way). I really just think everyone needs to come here, there's no way you can be the same person when you leave, it's just so ....... can't even tell yeah! I guess y'all (yup, can't believe I even thought that) will just have to come and visit me to see it for yourselves!!! =D


Thanks for reading, make sure you give me some feedback so I know whose reading this and so I don't yell at you for not reading it when you actually did! lol! Love and miss everyone! 


Brittany xoxoxoxoxoxoxo
ps. I'm just looking at an e-mail my mom sent and I thought it would be easier to answer the questions on here. I'm not sure what's going on with that job, I stopped in the other day and he said he'd call me and didn't, so we'll see. And we do these things called assessments, and they are like big projects and exams mixed in one, it takes at least a month to do (so I've been told) and that's how they mark your lectures, most of your marks come from practical though, fieldwork which is when your serving in the church in your feild (I'm in the united choir, super cool) and your church life, which is when your serving the church in another practical but kinda "small" way, something that is important to the church but hardly noticed, like car park, or coffee or something! I don't know what mine is because my e-mail got all messed up, but I think I'm going to be in kids. And I'm volunteering in TV on Tuesdays and Fridays during campus chapel, which I have to attend either way so it's not adding alot more, other than the fact that I have to wake-up at 5:15 on those days to be there by 6:30 for practice. But it's sick, I think they're going to let me do the camera's for the actual service next week! woohoo! I pretty much hang out with everyone, it's just like a big community, if someone's doing something and you wanna go, you just go or if you don't you'll find someone doing something you want to do, it's pretty easy. We're signing our contract for internet tomorrow, so hopefully that'll be up and running asap. There you go mom, hope that helps you sleep at 3 am! lol! =P Love you!