So its december 10th today. and I haven't posted a blog in ... too long. let's just say that. And I said I would, and I'm sorry. You must all hate me by now lol. But, seriously, in my defense its super hard to write a blog when you're having a blast in a different country doing something you love. Its weird. I thought I would have loads of time, and that I would be able to blog every week or month or whatever, but it doesn't end up like that. Maybe its because I'm not a big writer. I always suck at journaling and blogging and writing, and I never write whats in my head down on a piece of paper, and maybe that's what I need to do more, and believe me I'm trying, but I just haven't done it too much lately. Sorry.
None the less, the past few months have been crazy intense.
In September, there was Big Exo Day, which was a huge youth expo, 1 day only where there's tons of christian bands, venues, booths, organizations, etc in the day time, and then huge concert at night with Hillsong United and some other christian bands. It was pretty awesome, but my friend seth and I went just to attend while everyone else was serving, and we slowly began to realize that we were not in the age group that this is designed for. I mean, all the music and the bands and the skate parks and stuff were really cool, but literally everywhere you walked was high school students or younger lol. for once, it made us feel old. Weird. but anyway, it was still a great night, and a huge victory for God and for Hillsong. Apparently the Jonas Brothers are coming to big exo day next year?! weird as mate. lol :P So that happened, then Healing Seminar happened, and that is 4 sessions, spread across 2 days with 2 guest speakers who were Sy Rogers and Dr. Robi Sonderegger. If you don't know them, look em up. The healing seminar focused on emotional, mental, sexual healing and how to retrain our brains and such to not go down the same road that we always have but to change our ways for the better. It was really good, I believe it helped a lot of people. I attended both days, but then helped out in HMA after the service because we needed to make single sessions, and put CD's and DVD's into packs, and they all need to be available right after the conference or service is over. Crazy. So yeah, lots of fun. If anyone wants further information on this conference, I have it on DVD :)
Hokay so...
In october, we had what was called encounterfest, which is a youth conference that all age groups up to 25 go to, and its 2 days long I think. So Rich Wilkerson Jr who is a well known pastor in the states came over and spoke to us, and amongst that, we had what was called sunday visits friday, where they hold sunday night church on a friday night instead, so friday all day was encounter, then friday night church, then saturday all day encounter, then saturday night church, then sunday morning church. Pretty intense week if you ask me. So I served in encounter and I was involved with production, so I set up an outdoor sound system for acoustic sets during the breaks, and then I also did TD (if you remember from my last blog) for one of the main sessions indoors. so boom. encounter. awesome fun experience, tons of kids, tons of youth, tons of fun times.
Then...
We had October break, which is our mid semester break where we're off for one week. There was a conference held that week as well but it was up north more in a place called Port Macquarie. In Australia, the more north you go, the warmer it gets, its like opposite world because the equator is above us, not below (like in Canada). So yeah, some students volunteered to serve up there and expected a vacation on the hot sunny beaches but then realized they had to serve almost the entire time haha. Nah but I still heard it was awesome. I didn't go because I took advantage of that time and I worked more hours because I could (due to my visa conditions), so while everyone was out partying, I was raking in the dough haha. So it was a good break. If you want an idea of what my October looked like... and a little bit of evidence as to why I hadn't blogged in a while... take a look at my schedule lol.
...Then :P
ps it takes me like hours to write these things cause I get so distracted so easily, but then I just went through my pictures on my iphone and I think you'll all be pleased when you see them! haha there's some good ones :)
ok then in november, there was men's conference. Haha.. good times. So in september or october I made a deal with one my friends (seth) that him, nor I would shave until men's conference was over, just for the whole being a man thing and sporting the event fully. Plus I just wanted to see what it was like long. Andddd it was gross lol take a look.
Hahaha that was 3 ish months of no shaving. Its probably the longest I've ever grown my facial hair, and some people loved it, and others hated it haha. People kept saying I looked like a mountain man or something it was great. So anyways, yeah I shaved it off after Men's Conference was over, which by the way was awesome. 5 sessions, guest speaker Dr. A.R Bernard, pretty sweet, I have the DVD's, and so on and so forth. So THEN, that sunday evening was the annual album recording for hillsong's yearly album! They are songwriting machines! They write an albums worth of songs (if not more) every year! and they are amazing! its crazy. So on Sunday night, they gather the whole church, every campus (Hills, City, Southwest and Brisbane) and tell everyone to pack out the Sydney Entertainment Centre, and they get everyone in there, film the whole night with tons of cool lights and music and stuff, and then they produce it for several months, and when july 2011 hits next year, it'll come out! its crazy. Lots of fun again, incredible experience to say the least, and its such an honour and priviledge to be a part of their church. Its just... insane. THENNNNN...
just when you thought it couldn't get any better...
College Graduation Dinner and Ceremony.
So they had the dinner in the city by Darling Harbour, which is beautiful, and it was all catered and round table and dance floor and dress up time and all that, and then on the following monday they had the ceremony where they name off all the names, give out certificates, diplomas, degrees, etc. And, let me say this, most of the time college grad ceremonies are boring, but this one was more entertaining then ever! They did a huge collaboration of performances at the end which pretty much blew everyone away. They did a multi cultural thing where they would do live performances from music styles and genres from every country represented at college, so like canada they did celine dion, for england they did the beatles, for usa they did the national anthem, and for australia they did AC/DC! haha it was pretty sick. And so they gave out yearbooks at the end, which is pretty sick because they give out DVD's with like a 10 minute re-cap video of 2010, and Im in it! haha. its so cool. Anyways, I am coming home in 3 days so if you guys want to know more just ask me lol and I'll show the video to you guys aswell.
So lastly,
when I booked my flight, I had chosen to stay back and enjoy the hot summer weather here for 2 weeks after school ends, but unfortunately, the weather has been anything but. So luckily, since I have my job, I could work full time cause Im not in school! so from college grad till now I've just been organising myself for things I have to do before I leave, things I have to prepare, things I have to take care of, etc. And yes, I am returning for a second year!!! muahahahaha. Sorry :) come on... I think you guys would do the same if you were in my shoes too. so I come home in 3 days! I am excited to see you all! and I can't wait to be in Canada once more and have tim hortons and poutine and be in cold snowy weather for a short period of time. I fly back on the 13th of january I think? somewhere around there, so hit me up back home and we'll see if we can meet up! Talk to you guys soon! PEACE HILLSONG COLLEGE 2010!! BRING ON 2011!!
love it.
have a good one!
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