PreAussie

My word, five more days until I leave!! I can't believe it! As of now, I have taken over the guest room trying to pack. I have all of my clothes laid out on the bed...I need to go through and narrow it down to the ones I can actually take. I think I'm going to be taking my huge backpacking backpack (Thank you Aunt Julie and Uncle Kyle) and a suitcase. I'm getting pretty anxious about leaving. I've kept myself extremely busy up until now, so now I have a million different things I have to get done! I need to finish my Christmas shopping (and it's only October!), tie dye some shirts, oh yes, and I'm sewing myself some pillowcases for the trip :) I like the fabric a lot!

I decided that I should post a blog before I leave for Australia because there has been a lot that has gone on in the past couple of months. God has blessed me SO immensely!! I have already made a friend :) Her name is Lauren Tercero. She lives in Colorado Springs, graduated from Air Academy High School in May, and happens to be absolutely amazing! We met up at the end of August in Castle Rock for some coffee so we could have a chance to talk. Going into it I was so nervous, but oh my word. I just love her! We are going to be traveling together both to and from Australia! It is so nice to know that I have someone that I love to travel with. It will make the whole experience much more pleasant. We have been talking a lot. So far, since I haven't met anyone else going with me, Lauren has been the person that I can best connect with and talk to about everything that I'm feeling because almost all the time she is going through the same thing! :) We met up another time down in the springs for lunch and then went hiking through Garden of the Gods (which is beautiful by the way).

That's Lauren :). She's wonderful! I am so

excited to see where God takes our friendship over these next six months. I'm

sure we'll have a lot of crazy adventures and stories together. I have also

been blessed like crazy financially. I am so thankful for the response that I

received with my letters. It absolutely blew me away. Thank you to everyone who

is supporting me over these next six months with both money and prayers! I am

so grateful!

My plane takes off Sunday night at 6:50. I connect in both San Fran and Sydney.

Lauren and I will land on Tuesday, October 19th in Brisbane at 9:30am. haha Oh

how the time change shall turn my life upside down. :) Brisbane is 16 hours

ahead of Mountain Standard Time. Ah! I'm so excited and so nervous!!! I know that

God is going to do some amazing things and I am so excited that I have no idea what

those things are going to be. :) I'm sure I'll be updating you guys as soon as I get to Australia!

And yes, I do understand that something has gone drastically wrong with the whole

typing like a normal person. I don't know what happened. Guess I'll just have to get

used to this whole blogging thing. Sorry :)