Harry Connick Jr.?

Yay! Now I want to be a frontier missionary too! They have converted me!

It’s such a pity I have no church planting skills OR desire to minister in China. If only.

Seems I am destined for a life of destroying ignorance through sound doctrine, which is equally okay. How or where or what or who or when or why or how that will happen is still completely mysterious, as is most of my entire life. Apparently that is okay.

6 weeks of school down, 6 weeks to go. Will I survive? Will I learn great biblical principles? Will I meet the man of my dreams? Will I have 14 children? Will blue be the next brown? How come fruit always comes with stickers on it?

Umm… ok, am less sick. Huge relief since I spent 30 minutes walking around the playground with a blindfold on this morning while Trish made strange noises. Am sleeping lots, possibly due to intense amount my brain is processing, possibly due to me being a freak. But we leave tomorrow lunchtime so sleep will be HOPEFULLY plentiful as I push and elbow and shove my way to a seat which isn’t the crappest in the van. In a loving Christ-like way of course. Christ never had to sit in a mini-van with 14 other people. He had camels and donkeys and just walked around everywhere. Donkeys are fun.

Time to peace out, have a great day and I’ll write from AB where HOPEFULLY it will have snowed and Lori will have had her baby naturally.

I live in hope.

Because it floats.

kez.

Kel- who?

Hey guys, greetings from Kelowna, BC.

I am here for a YWAM Western Canada Go Conference, from Monday evening to Friday morning and so far it’s been quite good. They want to make frontier missionaries out of us all, but that’s okay too because it’s warmer here than Alberta.

We drove through the Rockies, and I saw real snow, not just postcard snow, although I still haven’t ‘experienced’ it because I’ve not been in a snowfall or thrown a snowball. Both will qualify me as experiencing snow. The Rockies were big and mountainous… I don’t know what else I thought they would be… so that was cool. We stopped very briefly at Lake Louise, but only about 10 minutes away from the castley place with the Lake so I still didn’t get to see it. Oh well, I do plan to go back through there on my final way to BC next time.

I am a bit sick here, so I feel wretched because the cold destroys my nose. I have slept LOTS. Not as much fun as it could be because of it.

It’s been good to meet lots of different nationalities and there is an aussie here too so we talk Occa.

The food is amazing and good.

Time to go, let the aussie have a turn on the computer.

Peace out dawgs

kezza, the sick one. :S

We’re not in Kansas City anymore…

You see the irony in such a windy day. I feel like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz and that at any moment this little coffee shop in a small town is going to be taken up, swirled around and plonked in the land of Oz. Which we colloqually call, Australia.

Irony!

If I could go home for a week, well, then… no, you know what? I probably wouldn’t come back. I would catch a sniff of that warm air, that salty sea and the laughter of my family and never want to leave again.

Tomorrow it will be -8 degrees and the wind here is crazy, a cow just flew past or possibly that was just from a movie I once watched. I still want snow but considering that we leave early monday morning for Kelowna, it’s probably not the best thing to hope for. Just yet. And yet still, there must be something good to look forward to or I’ll go mad longing for the warmth of Australia.

I am chillaxing with my friend Lee who is working but since noone else dares to venture out on this windy day, it’s very quiet. We are just talking about life and schools and Tad Hamilton. Good thoughts, those ones.

That’s all, it’s all quite peaceful and relaxed and normal today. Except for the wind. I don’t count wind chill factor in the temperature. Sure it makes you colder, but it’s not temperature. Just thought Canada should know.

kezza

Deferred Hope.

Another new day, another new blog!

Life goes on, somewhat same old same old, getting through the weeks and books and charts and verticals and applications. Last week was Romans, with a Swiss-French speaker who lives in Canada who made us watch Les Miserables and burn stuff. Always fun.

This week is 1 Peter and Small Group Bible Study stuff. I hope there is still burning of stuff involved.

Yesterday some of us went into Red Deer, a bigger town over here and did some things. I bought snow boots! YAY! Ok, so, it hasn’t snowed YET STILL but I am eagerly waiting for it. My feet are warm at least and a I’m a few cms taller as well, which never hurts. Everyone who was going to move is, has moved in so now we have boys at our house and it’s pretty fun. I always feel a bit bad beating up on girls so this is a good development. To answer my mum’s question, yes, we do now have a stove and a fridge, on whihc I mad euse of this past weekend as Robin from the US and I were on weekend duty so we made food and cleaned up. Our crew are kinda awesome because they all helped out wit hthe packing up as well. Community.

Cold cold cold, it’s getting colder but on the weekend I managed to fool myself a little because I didn’t have to get up and out of the house early and stayed inside most of the day. For all those who think it’s bad to stay inside all day, I DON’T CARE. It was warm and dry and nice. Still, this morning I was walking to the church at 7am for a music practice and it was dark and cold but not disasterously cold as I expected because I had snow boots and two pairs of pants on. It helps to wear all your clothes at once. Less cold.

In a few weeks I am off to Kelowna for a YWAM Go conference. Everyone is excited, I am not really. Because class is going to continue while we are there which will make for a busy week and I am also not in the travelling mindset… that was before… now I’m in my ‘try to stay in one spot for awhile’ mindset. Oh the confusion going on in my head.

I have photos, mad photos, but I can’t post them because I can’t load them in this computer. Such is life eh?

Well, that’s all for now, great to see you are still keeping on reading as my journey continues. We look ever forward to the day of hope, the day of salvation, that precious day of snow. It is near my friends, I can feel it. Well, it’s the lack of feeling in my fingers that tells me…

kezzo.

Some Writings of Some Australians

Here I sit in the coffee house that YWAM runs and Marianne is looking over my shoulder. Apparently that is what they do in China, although she’s not Chinese, she lives in Russia but she’s Swiss-German. That’s not to be confused with my friend who IS Russian that I met at camp. Both speak perfect English, even if it’s got a neat accent that I copy to their dislike. Hey, if you don’t want me to copy your accent, talk like an aussie… although… then I kind of would be…

Anyway, today is Thursday and so a few days left of this week. We’ve been reading and mapping out Acts, or, Acts of the Apostles, or rather, it really should be called ‘Some Acts of Some Apostles’, but lets not get into semantics right now. Since living at the red house, there has been more of this thing I don’t have, time, and I’ve been relishing it. My bed is okay, a bit squishy but sleepable. We still have no curtains but do have bath mats and a makeshift RED shower curtain, to put over our clear one. Apparently a man bought it. Boys don’t think of things like modesty so much.

I have a pillow now, which I bought for $4 from some unfair trade company and a nice big bath towel – because travel towels don’t cut it for long term.

Life is cold, and the maximums this week were ranging between 1-4 C. Freeeeeeeeck.

I have to go now and clean a church. Woo. Marianne has already left my shoulder to put air in her new bike tyres and then go to the church.

Joel’s doing the subtle reminding thing that I need to go. I’m going already…

kezo

Now I Know Why They Burnt The Books…

Better write because I haven’t for awhile – I’ve had no time. Leading up to the end of the week is leading up to the deadline at this school so Mondays are less stress than most others.

We have moved into our new house now, it’s red, I share a room and share the top floor of the split level house with 4 other girls. Later two guys will move into the bottom floor but it’s still pretty bare at the moment. We have no fridge or stove.. life indeed seems more sparse than it was in Zambia. At least the water works.

We finished the book of Luke last week, this week is Acts. Once I’ve blogged, I will go off and read it twice. It’s long. I’m despondent. No more reading please…

This morning was cold and we walked to the church where we have classes in this cold. It hasn’t even snowed yet. I am going to die. A slow cold death.

I’m happy that it’s getting cold, it’s about time that I see snow. The past week has been warm with tops of 23 and 25. One lady was talking about Alberta and got really excited about the warmness of the winter and said it can even get up to 0… she said with a smile.

I almost burst out laughing – was she being sarcastic? No, it was real.

I miss sarcasm. Someone say something mean and ironic.

Well, that’s it for now, time to hit the books… and then sit down and read them. A few good swings should make me feel better.

love kez.