A Trip to the Blue Mountains!

Hello again! Well, I just got home from a 3-day trip to the Blue Mountains with a few friends... As I said, we had a few days off after Colour Conference so we decided to rent a little cabin/cottage (very low-budget haha) up North a bit, and just get away from the "bubble" we live in here! It was a really nice getaway. The first night we were there we walked down the road a ways from our cabin and found a place called Govett's Leap. It was a lookout point over the Blue Mountains and it was absolutely breath-taking. Here's a snapshot of what we saw, although it doesn't do it justice:
We spent out first evening just going through a couple of trails in this area and taking in the amazing view. We took a BILLION pictures (check it out on facebook if you can!) and also just took a moment to pray together on the top of a cliff. It was a beautiful, magnificent moment. It just all hit me at once... Something this beautiful could never just "come into being." And this is only a fragment of God's masterpiece. It takes my breath away.

The six of us that went on the trip (from left to right: Trey, Me, Kyle, Frankie, Rand, and Angelique) had just decided at the last minute we wanted to take the opportunity to get away and experience a bit more of Australia. It was really nice and refreshing, and we have a ton of memories that will last a long, long time. :)

Other than the Blue Mountains trip, I am going back to normal classes starting tomorrow. It will be interesting as I feel I haven't been in regular school for a couple weeks now due to Colour Conference. Gotta get back into the swing of things now! Nothing major coming up anytime soon... Just back to school and back to the norm! I will blog again soon when I have more to say... Sometimes it's hard to figure out exactly what to write about! Anyways, will be in touch again soon! Sending my love...

Colour Conference

Wow it has been crazy here lately! We just came out of Colour Conference 1 and are headed quickly into Conference 2. Colour Conference (for those that don't know) is Hillsong's major Women's Conference that they do every year. It is a BIG deal here. Conference 1 was held in the Sydney Entertainment Center which holds approximately 9000 people. Every student was allocated to serve in a specific area for the 3 days of the conference. I was originally assigned to Refresh which was a fancy way for saying that I would be cleaning. However at the last minute they cancelled that team because the center actually had people to do that instead. So our team was reallocated to Snack Packing. We had to fill bags with a few snacks for the last 2 days of conference for the women. We packed around 17,800 snack bags. CRAZY! But it was really actually fun because we created assembly lines and just got the chance to get to know people we didn't really know yet! I met a few people from the Hills campus who are really cool. It's gonna be good to know people there so that I can go visit that area and see more of Australia! :) Anyways, besides packing snack bags I also got the opportunity to be in the "opener" for both Thursday and Friday of the conference. Essentially, I got to be one of the people on stage in front of 9000 people in a short song/performance to start off the session. It was really awesome! Here's a picture of the stage -- not the best quality, but better than nothing!

So I got to sit in for a BIT of conference but not that much. It was really all about serving for us, and it was a really cool experience. Conference 2 is coming up in a couple of days and it's going to look a bit different as I don't think the first years are part of the actual conference... Not 100% sure at this point but I will update you after it's over!

Otherwise things here have been good! It's been a weird schedule the past couple of weeks because of Colour, so I feel like I haven't really been in school too much. After this week is over I have 3 days off and I think a bunch of us are going to go do a bit of sightseeing! Not sure where exactly at this point, but again, will inform you upon my return where I went and what I did! :) The week after that, everything will be back to normal class schedules. 

Anywhoooo, not too sure what else to blog about right now... But if you have any questions, feel free to ask and I'll answer them to the best of my ability :) Hope all is well over there. Missing you all!