The Time is Now

I can't believe it!! In precisely 7 hours and 53 minutes I will be on my way to the Little Rock airport to begin my quest to the other side of the world. Numerous emotions are rushing through me right now: excitement, fear, apprehensive, uncertainty (I could keep going but for your sake I won't). I am excited because well, for the obvious reasons, I am going to Australia and New Zealand! Fear and apprehensive go together and they are only because I have never flown before and I am going to be on a 16 hour flight across the ocean (talk about jumping in with both feet!!). And finally uncertainty because I have NO IDEA what to expect.

While overseas we are going to visit New Zealand and Australia and travel as much as we can within the countries (not to mention I am taking 17 hours). I am excited to travel and experience a whole other culture that differs from my own.

I will be taking a couple of humanities classes, a class about the life of Paul, elementary statistics, and earth science. I am sure I will learn a lot in those classes, but honestly, that's not what is most important to me during this trip. I hope I learn a lot about myself, I hope I learn a lot about my God, and I hope that I can become closer to him about the trip. It's easy to get comfortable and content with where you are in life when you have a routine that you follow everyday like I do. But when you break out of it, it can get a little scary and that is what I am feeling right now. I hope to lean on Him and learn more about him in the next 3 months. I hope that you can do the same, by breaking out of your routine to take a little time to spend with our loving, caring, and forgiving Father.

I hope you have a good, safe semester/3 months while I am gone. Please pray for the group as we travel as I will be doing the same for you back home. I love you and God bless you and keep you safe in His arms!

Technologically Illiterate Gone Technological

So Monday at 9:30 a.m. I start the trip of a lifetime. Me and about 20 other students and two professors are heading out to Australia/New Zealand for 3 months! While I am overseas, I will use this to update anyone who is interested on what activities we have been doing and what all is going on. A friend who has traveled a lot told me to do this so I don't have to answer tons of emails and say the same thing in all of them. I don't know how often I will be able to post on here but I will try to as often as I can. I also don't know much about this so bear with me while I try to figure out the technical world. I know you must be thinking, "It's just a blog, how can it be so hard?" Well, for me it is. I am probably the least knowledgeable college student you will find when it comes to technology. But until the first actual post, stay classy and God bless!