FLAT 65!

FINALLY

I have got all my stuff in so much order that I can proudly present our flat to you all :) We had a ridiculous stuggle with our home delivery company for our Ikea furniture, and ended up having to have pick up our stuff ourselves.. Oh it was horrible but God really blessed my day by sending my host mother to drive our stuff here. Am I so so thankful she did that!!

I enjoyed putting the stuff together - I think I am a bit of Ikea addict by now! But it is just so convenient and amazing how one tiny box can build up into a whole drawer! I helped my friend Jonathan to put his stuff together - American's just don't have a clue what it's all about :D So now finally I have a spot to work on assignments and all that once school starts :)

The Reeds family donated kindly some stuff to me which I am so blessed by, like bed linen, beach towels, a chair, reading light etc etc. I hadn't realized how little money I had reserved for January living and am right now making it barely through. I hope it get's easier once my student benefits (which are an amazing blessing to me, I have come to understand since meeting people from all around the world and seeing that they have nothing like that!). I really really want to buy a bike to save up with travelling expences but I don't have the finances right now. I hope I will find a cheap old dodgy bike from a garage sale or something with $100 or so.. Im sure God can figure something out :) I mean God knows exactly what I really need and He has already shown such kind care for me! The other night I was hanging out with some College students and they just gave me a microwave for free! But I have to say that I am so thankful for God placing me to live with the people I do - I could have never afforded to come here having to buy everything from a washing machine and fridge to beds and sofas etc.. that's what most of my new friends came to. I am so so priviledged to live in flat 65.

So here are some pictures of our flat so you can create a little picture in your minds of what it looks like here. It is of course very student like since most of the stuff we have here we have got for free, so nothing matches and it's old - but it works all the same! Please do not compare it to my previous flat with Mari-Anne, since that was not a student flat at all!! :)

This is our wardrobe - we have awesome glass sliding doors and we write stuff on the doors we need to rememeber - extremely handy! We write with white board markers elsewhere too - on bathroom mirror, kitchen tiles and so on! It gooood, and after you've finished you just wipe it off! We're saving paper doing this as well :) No more "Post-It's!" :)

This is what our (Lisette's & my) bedroom looks like from the door. The first messy table is hers, mine is on the back facing the window. We sleep in a bunkbed which reminds me of the days of my childhood :) I sleep on the bottom and she sleeps on the top bed!(I bet you could have told anyway since my bed is made and her's is not!:D)

So this is my sleepy corner - I have sheets that the twins used to use in their beds, and I can stare at some of my best friends while going to sleep, since they gave me an adorable calendar that I have hung above my bed. Its extremely handy too since the pages are laminated, so I can mark all kinds of dates there (e.g when rent is due) and erase them as I wish without leaving the calendar messy! Good on ya girls ;)

My "work department" - everything ready for school!

Our bathroom - Jill and Rachelle (my other two roomie whom I have't yet met) have their own too and we also have a bathtub in theirs!!

Livingroom

Kitchen

Balcony <3

Colby has become one of my best best friends here in very short time. He is so much fun to be around but we can also share what God has placed in our hearts.
I've also again met a whole bunch of new people - to my delight also some girls who are starting to study in pastoral stream! Vanessa and Sarah come from the States, Fafa from France and Cecilia from FINLAND! She will be taking the kids stream just like I am, so we'll hang out heaps and heaps! We seem to really click with Cecilia so you'll hear more of her for sure! I've also met Stewart whose just finished with College, Jeremy from India, Erik from Sweden, William from France, Alex and David from the States and Jason from Canada. Im sure you won't be able to keep up with all my new friends, since even I can't! I have started to write down their flat numbers and names of the people who live there, since they're all so awesome and I don't want to miss out a single person!

Here are some of the core team down at Coogee - from left upper row: Simeon (Switzerland),William (France),David, Alex & Jonathan (States). Colby (States) lying down in the middle and next to me on the lower row is Erik (Sweden).

We've been going down to the closest beaches - Bondi, Coogee and Maroubra have been conquered (they are all 30minutes from where we live) and I can tell that we have so much fun there - altought Im a little scared for all the crazy Americans since they don't seem to have the respect for the waves... However it's been so much fun, and school hasn't even started yet! We are all so excited for Powerhouse Retreat next weekend at Central Coast...!!! It's going to be life changing three days!

That's all for now - I want to get out to the beautiful sunshine so Im going to a park just around the corner to have my devotional time and just spend some time with God thanking Him for everything here and praying for people back at home - especially for my home church and the Treehouse. Thank you so so much for all your prayers for me - I have been blessed beyond measure!

'Till soon!
With much Love,
-P