For: Alyssa and AdriElle

This morning I had some serious sleepy eyes

Vissarion……..you know, Jesus

So apparently Jesus came back, but he’s keeping it a secret. It’s not western civilizations “time” yet

A Mrs. Andrea Rosenbohm informed me of this through her excellent blog. Check it. Watch the video

ridic

Hillsong International Leadership College First Semester: Check

I just finished my last assessment for college this semester. And it only took me until 4:15am the day they are due. It’s to the point now where I think that if I sleep for the next 2 hours it will just make my situation worse for tomorrow/today. But I’m not complaining. This is a momentous occasion for me, not to be taken lightly. I and the other 3 people who have stayed up and will continue throughout the night will soon go to the local 24 hour McDonalds and partake in a breakFEAST. I don’t know if there is such a thing, but if there’s not, I will recommend it to Ronald myself. He’s sitting on a gold mine with that one. I don’t know if I’ve mentioned this, but McDonalds is way better here. At first I just thought Australia was arrogant, always boasting of there “100% Australian Beef” in their hamburgers. Then you try one and it’s like BAM! Best fast-food meat ever. I have had a serious amount of caffeine within the last 9 hours and my left arm keeps falling in and out of consciousness. HUZZAH!

assessments are not as cool as arrested development

I’m sorry about the lack of anything worth reading within the last couple weeks. It’s these darn assessments. I worked on them a bunch today. Then I rewarded myself with an episode of Arrested Development and loved it. If you’re currently thinking, “ALRIGHT! Another post about that show!” then good for you. If you’re thinking, “ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?!?! Another post about that show!” then shut up. YOU just need to watch it more because there’s no way that you would be thinking that kind of garbage if you would just watch the show. Buster is for sure my favorite character. I kind of think you’re weird if he’s not your favorite character. Everything about him is so genius. I want to put a picture of Buster on this but my internet is going freakishly slow and I’m real tired so no can do. If you want to see him you can just type in Buster Bluth in Google Images. That’ll probably work

distractions

I have a lot of assignments due in one week. Zero good there. I’ve done a lot, but not really enough. It’s the darn distractions. Whenever I start I get distracted and start looking at guitars or stuff about how to survive velociraptor attacks or putting my(and Dillon’s) head onto funny pictures. But no need to worry, Noon and on tomorrow is going to be dedicated to assessments.

this is the guitar I like

Napoleon Dynamite and Clive Staples

So it turns out that, contrary to what Napoleon Dynamite may say, a liger is not a mythological creature bred for skills and magic. They are real and are bred for simple radassity(I could have spelled that radacity if I wanted). Don’t believe me(about the liger……….not the radassity thing)? Check this video out. It’s National Geographic so don’t go try and tell me it’s fake because it will do you no good.

I started reading The Screwtape Letters today. I heard a lot of good and crazy stuff about it so I snagged it and started it. There have been allegations that the 9th chapter changed my friends life, so I’m looking forward to that one.

-Peace

Lose the tude

A wise man once said (I can’t remember if it was Bob Groeneman or Bob Gabelman) that a bad attitude can spoil anything good and a good attitude can spoil anything bad. That saying has rung true in my life dozens of times and is once again proving to be true here. You can be in the most crap situation and have a good attitude and it can totally transform. Equally you could be in Australia at a bible college where people are doing whatever it takes to see you succeed and God is trying to teach you loads and if you have a bad attitude, you will be convinced you’re in hell.

The latter situation is not as hypothetical as the former. It seems quite popular right now at college to complain about everything and pity party for weeks about the tiniest things. There are now several people who are my intake and have chosen to leave in July and not finish the year. I do not understand that at all. Their reasons don’t make sense to me. I really don’t think that God’s grace would leave you hanging halfway through the year, or that you have already learned everything God wants you to or whatever. The truth is if someone really wants to leave and go home they can come up with the most spiritual sounding answer to tell people why it is necessary for them to go home. I think the reasons life is hard for them is because they are making life so hard for themselves. They are in the same classes everyone else is in with the same teachers on the same days and yet there are people who are learning a ton. The college definitely doesn’t have everything figured out and there are a lot of areas that could be done a lot better, but nothing that makes it unbearable to be here. Your life is going to be as good as you let it be. I heard someone here say, “grass isn’t always greener on the other side, grass is greener when you water it.”

I think that there are a lot of people forgetting the process that happens before coming here. Coming to Australia isn’t an easy move for anyone, there must have been some point where they had a peace about coming and they thought it was what God was wanting them to do. I don’t know if they remember how excited they were to come here. Being here can get hard, real hard. It doesn’t mean that you’re not suppose to be here just because it’s difficult. I don’t know. There has to be some scenarios where I would think it makes sense for someone to go home. For all I know God really does want them to go home now. I don’t know. It’s hard. I know that God is trying to teach me a lot I know that I want to finish this year and that will be a lot easier if I have a good attitude about things. I also know that throughout the years it has always been easier for me to hear God’s voice when I have a good attitude. All this is something I think about a lot. A little bit of a rant, but good to write down I suppose.