Just another day in the life

My exciting daily life, well perhaps that's not exactly true. My life is super exciting but not on a day to day basis, I only tend to realise just how not normal my life is this year when I reflect on it.

This is what the past few months have looked like for me, we started in Brisbane then Toowoomba, then Brisbane, Hervey Bay, Brisbane, Gatton, Brisbane, Evans Head, Brisbane, Biloela, Blackall, Claremont, Mackay, Gladstone, Rockhampton, Yeppoon, Theodore, Yeppoon, Rockhampton, Bundaberg, Coffs Harbour, Goulburn and now finally Traralgon. I have been in all these places, toing and frowing for as short as one night up to a week in the past two months. WOW.

Now, here's a breif peak into what my life has been looking like. In Clarmont we got to milk cows, ride horses, drive four wheelers, and have bonfires. In Rockhampton (aka "Rocky") we helped to run the Rockahpton Youth festival in which we got to team up with the Emeral team and do some ministry, it was so refreshing to hang out with them and save souls (or at least do our best) with them. Theodore had a population of only 600! By FAR the smallest place we've worked in. In Yeppoon a few of us girls went out with a mutual friend of one of my team mates, we went to see some of Yeppoon’s night life, we went on a mullet hunt and went down "pie alley" a (somewhat sketch) alley way in which at any hour of the night there is someone in the back of the bakery waiting for a knock on their garage door and willing to sell pies to those who have been out on the town, we of course thought the whole thing was a joke but we were not disappointed! In Bundaberg (Bundy) we did a lot of work (and simply hanging out) with the young adults group there. One of them, whose name is Brent, is heavily involved with the community theatre and he invited our whole team to go see their production of "Little Shop of Horrors" totally free, exclusively for us and before the show even opened. We also had our supervisor visit in Bundy, it was pretty chill and we did a lot of fun stuff like went to the Bundy ginger beer factory, took a tour there and got to try all 16 of their non-alcoholic drinks, we also got to try sugar cane, for the first time for most of us and just generally had an awesome time. After Bundy it was a 3day drive to get to Traralgon, which is where we are now. On Sunday we took a day trip to Melbourne to visit Megan, which was fun, Melbourne is such a stinking hip city, it was awesome. I guess it’s just another day in the life of the Natty team.

On a personal level I am doing well, I'm exceptionally tired and exhausted all the time but I love the ministry and I live such a blessed life. Next week we are back in Brisbane for the Ignite youth conference, the largest Catholic youth Conference in Australia, which we as the National team, along with the Sydney, Emerald and Mazenod (Melbourne school team) will be taking part and helping with. Please pray for Ignite and the young people who will be there. Also I seriously miss everyone back home so please if you get the chance send me an email so I know how your lives are going. I will try and repost sooner in the future. For photos check out my facebook, sorry my internet here is to slow to upload any for the blog.

AMDG