journey series: hunter valley

event outline:
during semester break...
hunter valley for staff retreat.
kids program team.
stayed at kookaburra retreat house.
flippin' beautiful with roos jumping around our vast backyard.
open space, awesome rooms, and spa bath.
best place. best people.
gotta go back!

to melbourne and back - in may.

life in lists (because i'm too lazy to write life out in detail.)

may madness.
crazy intensive classes...
before my week break...
took off to melbourne for the weekend.
my first oz roadtrip.
photo above is a quick shot before leaving for sydney again.

view from my desk.

the photo above is a reflection of my life at the moment...
after a couple crazy weeks my desk finally cleared up. from assessment mode to intensive week-- i began my ten-day-holiday off to Melbourne! i absolutely love that city. it always makes me get the butterflies. it's like that frou-frou feeling like you're falling for someone and you can't sort out your feelings, you don't know what to do with them, and so you walk around with a special glow and you smile with a special spark in your eyes. aaaah... melbourne!

i'm so glad i got to spend some time in my aussie hometown. it is beautiful. and i don't mind the cold weather at all. hot chocolate, under-the-covers, snuggle weather! i will post some photos when i get around to uploading photos of my short-yet-sweet holiday.

this school break is a much needed breather and i'm already starting to feel refreshed. i love it.

tomorrow, i'm off to hunter valley. will post photos of those too! (i know i've been slow on updates... but like said, i've been having the craziest weeks EVAAA!)

ciao ciao. xxoo.

#justsayin'

quite true.
from http://asdfghjkllove.tumblr.com.

just a general note.

i figured i hadn't written a "meaty" post lately, so i'm sharing my thoughts on life thus far...
it is about 10:44 p.m. and i'm simmering down, my friend and i were on an emotional roller coaster all day-- (i think it might have been my fault, seriously being like a girl's girl at the moment, might've just rubbed off on her...) and basically, it's been craycray. i'm not really sure what i want to hash out of my heart--

i guess one thing is that, i'm so glad to wake up knowing i'm still in sydney. i will seriously cry an enormous amount of tears had i to leave australia.

this has been a huge dream of mine since twenty-oh-nine.
i can't believe i'm actually here, living life here. in sydney. (although i honestly thought i'd be in melbourne, but God has other plans!)
i mean, wow, time goes so unbelievably fast. twenty-twelve.

twelve years ago, i was twelve, (and here we go again,... ) i have no clue why my age this year is fascinating me so much. plus, it's the year of the dragon. #justsayin'
(and it's a leap year!)

anyway, it's so weird to look back and think about ALL that time that's passed. i definitely am not where i imagined myself to be, and i'm glad my plans didn't fall through, otherwise i'd be more screwed than i think myself to be. (GAAH, college loans! -- driving me insane lately! IN JESUS NAME, I will overcome!) i mean, who knows what i'll be doing in a year's time. i honestly haven't thought much about it, i had some things in mind, but i'm still weighing my options.

at the turn of the year, i felt like everything i struggled to build for myself, and all the walls i've put up for myself started to crumble down. it is the beginning of a new era for me. like the slate's been clean, and fear and failures are wiped off, and i get to start all over again. i'm excited and scared like crap. no maps, and hands off the wheel this time. yea, riding at the backseat with Jesus at the wheel.

classes are at it's final leg, and we're a stretch to the july conference, which means the end of the first semester in HILC. i'll move on to the next season, and expect much for the one to follow.

life never felt so right. so good.