May the lectures begin

Hey Guys! I know it has been a while but I am still alive. Things are really picking up here and I am loving every second of it. Everything about this journey is amazing. On Monday my lectures started and I am now adjusting to my new schedule. I guess the easiest way to inform you on what's going on is by talking about each area of my journey so far. 

So I will first start with my living arrangements! On the base there is one student house, one flat, and the base directors house. The student house is where we all eat and have meetings and hang out. There is a toilette room and then a shower room, a kitchen, two living rooms, a large veranda, two offices, and three bedrooms. One of the bedrooms is where I stay. I sleep in a room with two other girls. Although it can be loud some nights and mornings it is really nice to be in a central location where most of the stuff is going on. My roomies are great and we get along really good. They understand my craziness and sometimes join in with me! It also has been an adventure learning to live with nine guys! They live in a dorm style flat right outside the house, but other than sleeping and showering we share the same house. The guys are great and we all seem to get along great. For the most part they are actually really good about cleaning up after themselves and being respectful, so praise God.

Now onto the lectures! Lectures are every weekday in the morning and go until about 1:00ish. The lectures take place at one of the local churches, Eastgate. Most times there will be a speaker that comes in to speak to us. For our first week of lectures we had the pastor of Eastgate speaking. He is so intelligent and has so much knowledge to offer us! He is very energetic and at times can be hard to follow because his mind just works so differently because he is so smart. I wish my brain worked that way sometimes, but then again I guess that is why God called him to be a preacher and not me. The topic for our first week of lectures is theology! So much for easing into the subject matter, this is some heavy stuff but it is great. Basically what they say for lectures and DTS is, you get out of it what you put into it. So if you want to learn a lot and come away with a lot then you will have to put in the effort and not just skim by on everything. I intend to learn boat loads and just soak up the word of God like a sponge!

I will inform you now on what I do when I am not in lectures or sleeping. I wake up and have breakfast and get ready. When we get back from lectures at the church we have lunch. After lunch, depending on the day, we do different things. We may have base development, where we do whatever the base director has asked us to so that we can keep the landlord happy and just help out. Or we may have beach outreach, this is where we go to the beach or I guess somewhere else and play volleyball or soccer and just hang out with other people from the community and create friends and let them know who we are and then they can come to dinner that night at the base if they want to with us. But after that we all come have dinner and then depending on the night we wither have the evening off or something else to do.

But that is pretty much the low-down! I am doing great and God is teaching me so much already and I thank him for bringing me to where I am! I am praying for you all and God Bless!!!! Love you!

Oh and I will try to post more pictures and just let me know via comments if you have any questions and I will try to answer them via email or on my next post.