weekend adventures!

Hi! I have been so busy doing fun things before classes start that I feel like I could update this blog a couple times a day and still miss heaps of things!!! Yesterday (Saturday) ended up raining so we didn't go to the beach. Instead Laura and I explored around our suburb a bit. It's a nice little suburb with lots of cute little houses, a busy downtown with cafes and shops, a large park, and a huge shopping mall. The picture on top was in the park. I think we've seen about four different weddings in the past couple days.

I'm getting over the overload of everything being new and different than I expected. My host family is turning out to be very sweet and I'm enjoying getting to know a bit of Greek culture too! They run a Greek Christian outreach TV program and they are very busy people.

Last night I watched the Matrix with Anthony. It was filmed in Sydney so Anthony kept pointing out where the different scenes were filmed and I was like, "hey! I've been there!!!" 

Today Anthony took me and Laura to Hillsong Church in the city. It was amazing!!! It met in Capital Theatre today for a trial. I guess they need more room to expand. After church Laura and I made some new friends our age: a girl named Paivi who's from Finland, Florance from France, Miranda from Mexico, and Ashton and Kieth from the states. The cool thing about Sydney is that it is extremely multi-cultural. It was a beautiful day so we all went and got Australian meat pies. Kieth, whose a chef here in Sydney, took us to the best place to get them. They were pretty good. After that we walked along the harbor, explored the botanical gardens, and ate ice blocks (popsicles). My feet hurt from walking so much and I've got a bit of a sunburn from being out in the sun all day but it's been good.

These are a couple guys that were pointing the way to Hillsong (this picture is for you Leslie ;). I've got more pictures but they are having trouble uploading. I'll put them up soon.