in da house

I am currently in the kitchen of the house I'm staying in. There is something in my eye and it hurts a tid bit. I'm basically the only one awake...again! I'm known as a morning person here and I love it!

Everything is still going great. A big group of us went to the beach yesturday which prob took us two more hours than it should have..the "Aussie" of our group, Nathan, was leading way, and well, we found out that he has a HORRIBLE since of direction ahhaha. We ended up walking about a complete hour away from the beach..in the complete wrong direction. Finally some wonderful soul asked for directions and we got turned around...then we let a Canadian guide us from our group..Braden. A good switch it found to be.

The beach was beautiful!! I had to keep reminding Tyler that he was in AUSTRALIA and not to complain about the beach that "sucked" in his opinion. He knows me as "the peace maker..the happy one" I'm ok with that. Some girls and I chilled at the beach and soaked it in. A small group of us ran into the water..it was freezing at first, but soon the clear blue water became uncommonly warm as we swam around slightly afraid of the sharks. There has been one person bitten at the beach we were at this year...AHHHH!!!!

After beach time, we had some good convo about what all of our passions are. I brought up the question of course..always find the answers interesting. Then we headed back to the city. By this time, I was walking around bare foot because the sandals I was wearing gave me blisters...ouchy mamma! But we went back to the city for some of us to get towels and such, then me, Hayley and Clarissa, went and got smoothies. Possibly the BEST smoothie of my life...Mango Mystic. AHH soo good. The three of us have been named "the three musketeers" according to Tyler.

After we arrived back at the base, we met up and started to go back into our groups. We break into groups and go to different staff members houses to eat dinner. I'm in a group with LeLora, Tyler, Brice, Maisa and Maddie. There are more to come into the group soon. We had wonderful chicken leggs, rice, and super yummy veggies. I'm lovin it. We cleaned up our messes we made, thanked them for our food, then went and got some icecream with the whole YP at Hungry Jacks. Supper yummy. The only thing cheap here is the ice cream cones. $.50!! Even a small smoothie costs $5...whew!

After that, we went to a park and played the name game again. You sit in a circle, one person starts off by saying someone else in the circles name. The person in the middle tries to smack the person's name they said before they say another's name with a sandal. If they succeed, they win, and that person is it. It's become a favorite around here.

It's been pretty chilly here at night esp so we all went back to the house to hangout. I had some good convo with Megan, as we chilled in the hangout area with some of the crew. Everyone is so amazing. So many nice people, so many names. I can't wait til I actually know them all with the faces. And more are still coming! How exciting!

Anyways, I'm starting to get a little hungry, so I'm going to make me some toast!! I think we're having church on the beach this morning with the whole YP that's here, then later tonight beach time again with everyone and all the leaders..it's going to be great. Tomorrow the school begins! Can't wait.

(currently the Hayley and Clarrissa are freaking out....they see yet another cocroach. haha..they're kinda everywere here..)