Some more people slowly showed up to school today! It is kind of nice to slowly meet everyone instead of everyone being in a huge group all at once. We had our first church service today!! I played the piano on our worship team and it seemed pretty good. It was very last minute though...we practiced 5 minutes the night before haha. I need to learn that when I do stuff infront of a crowd, like worship or leading a service, it is for God and he will use me. I don't need to worry about saying the right things or impressing people!! Our church service was about why we are here and our destinations in life. It was something I really needed to hear since University is slowly approaching and I have to settle on a career choice! =P The atmosphere here is so incredible! I was almost shocked that everyone here believed in God since I am use to going to a public school...it is a VERY nice change.
Anyways! After church and Lunch (which was amazing! Had a tortellini type meal with a coffee cake and ice cream for dessert) we headed to the beach which is a 5 min walk from here. It was fun to go as a collective group!! We set up some mini soccer nets and started a game! SO MUCH FUN! When do you ever get the chance to play soccer on a beach in Spain!? The sand there is like powder...feels so nice between your toes =] After a while I started tossing a volleyball around with a girl named Kim. She is 22 ,from the states, and graduated from college in the fashion program! Feels so good to be active =]. After that I ended up walking along the beach and met up with 3 more girls who were walking back to the group. We stopped and wrote many things in the sand for some pictures! =P Then I waded out into the water with Joel, Amy, and Julia. The water is pretty chilly...nothing compared to Canada's water though..and it was shallow for quite a while! The salt water burned my skin though. Rachel and I walked some more along the water and started searching for seashells! When we were doing that a cute scruffy dog and its owner walked past..the dog ended up standing beside us for a while so we rubbed its head for a while haha SO CUTE! Makes me miss my dog so much! There seem to be lots of dogs here and all their fur is matted (ha! Do you hear that mom!? I bet they don't brush their dogs fur =P). It is a change from London where I didn't see any dogs at all!!
By the time we got back almost everyone was already back at the school. A few of us stayed back a bit longer to talk some more, take lots of pictures and then we headed back. It was so much fun and really made the group into a family.I ended up getting a sunburn! Haha Everyone is so comfortable with each other here! Not everyone talks to everyone but everyone is still friendly =]. We got back, had some more free time and had a fellowship night at 5:30. We do this every Sunday night and different outreach groups lead it but tonight the staff did! We played some 'name games' to learn everyone's name! It was a blast. Good for me, I am pretty bad with names =P After we had free time and so the girls in my room all hung out and we ended up meeting our last roommate(we are all from Canada in our room!) !! Her name is Janessa and she is an incredible hiphop dancer,a pastors kid (wooot!) and loves photography! Shes really nice. God has blessed me with amazing roommates who are so real and in love with God! That was my worry, that I will be with girls who are really caught up in the outward appearance.
Looking through the student handbook I noticed how demanding this course will be!! There are weekly readings of the Bible, weekly memory verses,prayer partners,bible study groups, Outreach 2 times a week, spanish classes, book reports and more! Haha This week I have to read Proverbs 1-31!! haha I am at Proverbs 18. It was incredible at first but I am finding it to be so repetitive so God is challenging me to search deeper into what I read to get more from it. Everyone needs to read this book =] . I am using the S.O.A.P method....Scripture,Observation,Application and Prayer. It really helps with reading the Bible!
Well, all in all this experience is amazing so far. I can already feel God slowly molding me into the Godly woman I want to be!!
Thank you guys so much for taking interest in my journey and for your prayers!
Anyways! After church and Lunch (which was amazing! Had a tortellini type meal with a coffee cake and ice cream for dessert) we headed to the beach which is a 5 min walk from here. It was fun to go as a collective group!! We set up some mini soccer nets and started a game! SO MUCH FUN! When do you ever get the chance to play soccer on a beach in Spain!? The sand there is like powder...feels so nice between your toes =] After a while I started tossing a volleyball around with a girl named Kim. She is 22 ,from the states, and graduated from college in the fashion program! Feels so good to be active =]. After that I ended up walking along the beach and met up with 3 more girls who were walking back to the group. We stopped and wrote many things in the sand for some pictures! =P Then I waded out into the water with Joel, Amy, and Julia. The water is pretty chilly...nothing compared to Canada's water though..and it was shallow for quite a while! The salt water burned my skin though. Rachel and I walked some more along the water and started searching for seashells! When we were doing that a cute scruffy dog and its owner walked past..the dog ended up standing beside us for a while so we rubbed its head for a while haha SO CUTE! Makes me miss my dog so much! There seem to be lots of dogs here and all their fur is matted (ha! Do you hear that mom!? I bet they don't brush their dogs fur =P). It is a change from London where I didn't see any dogs at all!!
By the time we got back almost everyone was already back at the school. A few of us stayed back a bit longer to talk some more, take lots of pictures and then we headed back. It was so much fun and really made the group into a family.I ended up getting a sunburn! Haha Everyone is so comfortable with each other here! Not everyone talks to everyone but everyone is still friendly =]. We got back, had some more free time and had a fellowship night at 5:30. We do this every Sunday night and different outreach groups lead it but tonight the staff did! We played some 'name games' to learn everyone's name! It was a blast. Good for me, I am pretty bad with names =P After we had free time and so the girls in my room all hung out and we ended up meeting our last roommate(we are all from Canada in our room!) !! Her name is Janessa and she is an incredible hiphop dancer,a pastors kid (wooot!) and loves photography! Shes really nice. God has blessed me with amazing roommates who are so real and in love with God! That was my worry, that I will be with girls who are really caught up in the outward appearance.
Looking through the student handbook I noticed how demanding this course will be!! There are weekly readings of the Bible, weekly memory verses,prayer partners,bible study groups, Outreach 2 times a week, spanish classes, book reports and more! Haha This week I have to read Proverbs 1-31!! haha I am at Proverbs 18. It was incredible at first but I am finding it to be so repetitive so God is challenging me to search deeper into what I read to get more from it. Everyone needs to read this book =] . I am using the S.O.A.P method....Scripture,Observation,Application and Prayer. It really helps with reading the Bible!
Well, all in all this experience is amazing so far. I can already feel God slowly molding me into the Godly woman I want to be!!
Thank you guys so much for taking interest in my journey and for your prayers!
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