Thoughts over the past while

I have been inspired by a friend of mine to start this blog. Although, I will have the will power to keep it updated.

My thoughts over the past time (can't define a particular amount of time, sorry)

We have just finished January and so also finished a couple of weeks of hilarity and stress and relaxing and social occasions and family gatherings and new ideas and and new goals and new paths to explore.

December seemed to bring everyone together and part people at the same time. Bring everyone together as in family gatherings, including Christmas (which was smaller than usual), and social gatherings that come with the hot weather. And part people, as some of my family, as some were in Queensland and some over on the EP and in Victoria. Also, people being parted includes friends who went home for the holidays (which they were intitled to do, though i missed them anyway, and was bored in their absence). December, brought some alright movies to the cinema as well. I went and saw Enchanted, which had me and a friend dancing out of the cinema and singing the songs the characters sung in the movie! Talking of people parting and saying goodbye (even if only for a little while), I had the final and appropriately named "Celebration Camp" for the course that I was doing. This was a milestone and signified the end of a chapter of my life and the beginning of a new one. I said goodbye to a few friends I had gotten to know over the year and a few friends I had gotten close to. Even though, I just said seeya later to a lot of them, as I'm hoping to still see them and catch up with them and become closer friends.

December also meant new experiences. For example, I went graffiti photographing with a couple of (what I would consider) close friends. I learnt a new game (well, new to me) called Apples to Apples, which i came to love.

New years brought a party at a friends house with a hawaiian shirt and hula skirt theme to it. Twas a great night, even though somewhat smaller group than usual because people had gone on holiday or gone home for the holdays.

January came, and along with it less hours rostered on for work, which was quite annoying.

New years resolutions were made, to which there were quite a few pages worth. It was more like a list of hopes for the year to make the most of life and to live rather than worry about life (which is what we're meant to do, in my opinion).

Also, with January came the City to Country (or Country to City) trip. To which we visited Tumby Bay, Port Neill, Port Lincoln, Cummins and Coffin Bay to connect with young people about helping them as more of them move to Adelaide to study or work. It was a good trip, though I had a bit of a shaky start, and almost didn't go because the night before I was in tears and convinced I couldn't go there and do a job as big as this one seemed to me to be. And was rather taken aback and overwhelmed by the crowd of unknown people I encountered on the Friday night at the beach mission and broke down in tears there as well. Though, the weekend seemed to get better as the team got closer and I had a few good chats with another member of the team, who was similar in personality. I met some new people, which was good, some of them I still talk to. I was quite reluctant to leave at the end of the trip.

There was two working bees at the church in January, after which a group of us went and saw a different movie after each. The first week saw Me, David, Isaac, Beth, Sarah, Penny and John at the movies to see Atonement. Which wasn't as good as we expected it to be. We were rather disappointed by it. The second Tuesday night saw me, John and David at the movies to which we were going to see a kind of Western movie, even though when crunch time came we decided to see Cloverfield. Which I was rather scared to see, as I didn't like the look of it. Even though I came out of it and thought it was a good movie. It was a bit funny. David thought it was hilarious and laughed at different stages (even though the people in front of us were quite annoyed at us because of it).

Australia Day saw a BBQ with different family members and family friends and just random friends. Twas a hectic day as i came home from work and found all these people in my backyard and they stayed until about 10pm. Twas a good day though.

The Australia Day public holiday saw a picnic dinner at the beach, which included not only food for dinner, it did also include cups of tea from the lovely John and his tea set. The beach was wonderful.

February brought new experiences with my first ice-blocking experience, which was quite fun. i wish i could've gone more actually.

I've gotten to know a few friends a little better, which i have been blessed by.

And I'm delighted to go back to Tabor now i know that I will have people i know in most of my lectures. and I know some of the lecturers. Its going to be a good year (well i hope so anyway)

well, not really my thoughts and reflections, just the outline of my day to day happenings throughout the past few months.

Cheerio
Jess