First week finished already?? WHAT??!!

SO! Last time I updated this blog I was living with a bunch of strangers and acquaintances... and now only A WEEK later we are family :)
I have literally had the most inspiring and absolutely incredible time and it's only been ONE WEEK :O

hmmmmm where to begin...

Life stories. Right. This literally blew my mind. We all got up infront of everyone after knowing them for about three days and basically spilled our guts... Everyone was soooo honest and laid out everything... For me, someone who is the queen of putting up masks and who is has this fear of being rejected by those around me this was absolutely terrifying aaaaannnd totally rewarding! It was the weirdest feeling because in the space of two days the people around me went from being people who I had just met, to a bunch of people that I literally knew all their deepest darkest secrets... All their fears and insecurities and things which they had never told anyone before... and they ALL knew mine!! AARRG!

I LOVE the people on this course already!! Bahaha! We've had some such good times already :p did you know that in Canada a beanie is called a toque?! and a toastie is called a "grilled cheese" hahaha and in Switzerland the equivalent of "Oh my gosh!" is "Ola Vache!" (or "Oh the Cow!")
other exciting past times have been belting out the air guitar to Queen, having dance parties in the Gap, the all important "Snuggle time!" (a lot more innocent than it sounds!), Extreme Uno, and yes... I have introduced Mao... to which Schegg, the Swiss guy exclaimed (as I was explaining the 'there are no rules' rule) "What?! Do you even speak English?!" hahaha it was so funny! apparently the Kiwi accent is a lot harder to understand then I first anticipated!

The speaker we had this week was Mal Maloney :) he was this 60 something year old guy who was speaking on the Holy Spirit and Ola VACHE, my word, God blew my mind! I learnt so much! I don't know how to condense it down into a blog!
We had this ministry time and God gave me word through Mal saying that God's going to use me to minister with kids! haha I was completely overcome by God and just could not stop laughing!! hahahaha the funny thing is is that the next day God gave me the BIGGEST revelation of the Father's love and I could not stop crying!! God just poured out waves of his love onto me! Life changingly INSANE!

Hahaha so one day I'm CRACKING up laughing! and he next I'm BAWLING! what is this??!! Like everyday God is working in all of us... it's AMAAAAZZZIIINNG!

So yesterday was sooo much fun!!

We went on a trip to the beach.
And anyone who knows me knows how I feel about the beach.
We went swimming... (well... only four of us!) and had a scavenger hunt which including things such as serenading a stranger, having a dance party in the middle of the street, and getting a picture with something Dora the explorer related... It was fun :)

Sooo I promised myself that I wasn't going to do looooong blogs but as you can see that promise is broken already! Meh I was never that good with goals anyway!

Love you all lots :)
hugs and kisses from MATAMAAATTTA! :)