Hello.
SO was in Tzaneen for a bit, guess what, while it is 25degrees in the summer back home in lovely Canada, its 9degrees here in winter. 9-11 dregrees in Tzaneen!!! Crazy!! but it was beautiful....very tarzan jungle-like, with lots of monkeys and tea plantations, and i saw the biggest tree IN THE WORLD. its a huge boabab tree with a bar inside of it (people are werid). So iwent inside the tree it was pretty sweet. Very nice to see myra and her family and it was nice.
THEN went on a crazy 16 or so hour BUS RIDE from johanesburg to PE. left at 5:45PM and arrived at 9:30AM the next day. All my luggage had to go at my feet because there was no room underneath or uptop, so it was very squashed and uncomfortable. but i sat beside a cute little 13year old girl. and she bought me a chocolate bar because i lent her my pillow and jacket. long ride.
Now i am back in Jeffreys Bay where I have lived the 1st 3 months here in SA, and is pretty much my home. It felt soooo nice to be back and to go to the beach again. :)
I am staying in a room all by myself, witch is kind of weird...
And all the staff are bugging me to stay on here as a staff member, and you have no idea how much i would love to do just that. but i know that i have to go home first. ...
so it is very nice to be here home in jefrreys bay :)
I"ll be making a road trip with friend Steve to Cape Town sometime soon here for 5 days or so, then hoping to be back for my birthday on the 25th.
however, i will see you in Augest !
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Mom Trip
so! last time i left off i belive was with graduation and mom coming here. well today is the day she left, so its been 2 weeks, and i can try to put those weeks into a nutshell here: okay. and (ps the shift button dosn't work, so no capitals, its not my fault. i usually do have good grammar haha)
so after chinsta and the durban fiasco...
st lucia.....beautiful place. Stayed on the outskirts of town, in the jungle pretty much. youcan litlerally walk out of your door and into a hippo!! (we talk from experience!) soo.....did some shopping, went on a sweet cultural tour the sencond day.
now this was interesting.....my mom and i had our own personal tour guide, bringing us through traditional Zulu culture. so....we started at the orphange (at our request) it was a bonus gift from God, because my mom so badly wanted to go to one. we had alot of fun with the kids. then she took us to a 'sangoma' - a traditional 'healer'. we went to his hut house, wich had dead leapord skin on the wall, spears and things, and weird herbs, and he told us about healing things...it was acctaully kinda sketchy. but interesting.
then we went to a sweet zulu village and she taught us things, and then the fun part. my mom and i got dressed in traditional Zulu clothes, and then after that got a performance from some awesome zulu dancers and singers. then the funny part. we got to dance with them. and it was embarrasing haha. iM sure they all laugh at us after, but it was fun. i'll put up pictures later. my mom hurt her leg for a while after that hardcore zulu dancing lol.
we also went on a night tour and saw crocs and hippos and bush babys and chameleons. it was exciting seeing a hippo walk. right infront of us too. and into our backpacker area. its quite normal for them to walk in the town.
then our next nice stop was Sabi. a small town. very fun though! we went caving the first night, by cadellight, it was very very cool. again, pictures coming.
we also did a day in kruger park, and saw all the animals ever, except for leapord and hyena and rhino. there were lions sitting right in the road, and baboons just like, pretty much jumping on your car, it was very very amaizng. excecpt for mycamera battery died on my first pic, so i was very angry. but got over it, and enjoyed the day thourouly.
then......yeah......bus to j-berg, mom flies out after what feels like 5 or 6 days, and here i am all alone now, besides my fellow backapckers. i am staying in a ..... nice.......no its acctaully creepy....part of johanesburg. for 3 days, till i catch a bus to tzaneen to visit my friend myra.
overall, its been a great time, being a tourist for real this time haha. wow....it was fun though, learned alot and got to see the other side of the country. very cool. and warmer. :) beautiful.
yaw....so....happy times, can't wait to see you all face to face!
God bless eh....
Romans 8;28-onwards i belive:
we know that in all things God works forthe good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. those God forknew, he also predestined to be conformed into the likness of his son, Jesus Christ.
those God predestined, he also called, those he called, he also JUSTIFIED, and those he justified, he also glorified. what can we say in response to this? if God is for us, who can be against us???
so after chinsta and the durban fiasco...
st lucia.....beautiful place. Stayed on the outskirts of town, in the jungle pretty much. youcan litlerally walk out of your door and into a hippo!! (we talk from experience!) soo.....did some shopping, went on a sweet cultural tour the sencond day.
now this was interesting.....my mom and i had our own personal tour guide, bringing us through traditional Zulu culture. so....we started at the orphange (at our request) it was a bonus gift from God, because my mom so badly wanted to go to one. we had alot of fun with the kids. then she took us to a 'sangoma' - a traditional 'healer'. we went to his hut house, wich had dead leapord skin on the wall, spears and things, and weird herbs, and he told us about healing things...it was acctaully kinda sketchy. but interesting.
then we went to a sweet zulu village and she taught us things, and then the fun part. my mom and i got dressed in traditional Zulu clothes, and then after that got a performance from some awesome zulu dancers and singers. then the funny part. we got to dance with them. and it was embarrasing haha. iM sure they all laugh at us after, but it was fun. i'll put up pictures later. my mom hurt her leg for a while after that hardcore zulu dancing lol.
we also went on a night tour and saw crocs and hippos and bush babys and chameleons. it was exciting seeing a hippo walk. right infront of us too. and into our backpacker area. its quite normal for them to walk in the town.
then our next nice stop was Sabi. a small town. very fun though! we went caving the first night, by cadellight, it was very very cool. again, pictures coming.
we also did a day in kruger park, and saw all the animals ever, except for leapord and hyena and rhino. there were lions sitting right in the road, and baboons just like, pretty much jumping on your car, it was very very amaizng. excecpt for mycamera battery died on my first pic, so i was very angry. but got over it, and enjoyed the day thourouly.
then......yeah......bus to j-berg, mom flies out after what feels like 5 or 6 days, and here i am all alone now, besides my fellow backapckers. i am staying in a ..... nice.......no its acctaully creepy....part of johanesburg. for 3 days, till i catch a bus to tzaneen to visit my friend myra.
overall, its been a great time, being a tourist for real this time haha. wow....it was fun though, learned alot and got to see the other side of the country. very cool. and warmer. :) beautiful.
yaw....so....happy times, can't wait to see you all face to face!
God bless eh....
Romans 8;28-onwards i belive:
we know that in all things God works forthe good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. those God forknew, he also predestined to be conformed into the likness of his son, Jesus Christ.
those God predestined, he also called, those he called, he also JUSTIFIED, and those he justified, he also glorified. what can we say in response to this? if God is for us, who can be against us???
Thursday, July 3, 2008
LONG TIME NO BLOG
Hello everyone who is faithfully reading my blog.
it is harder for me to type after no computer for 6 months, except for randomly, so this is going to take a while, also, its been a month since writing anything,and alot has happend!
I shall spare you the nitty gritty details......
So after Cape Town we went and did some farm ministry in Ashton and Worchester (Pronnounced "Vusta") haha. Yes. It was great, annd its acctaully all a blur to me, i only will share a few highlights....
Ashton - Amazing prayer-time in a old building that is used for drugs/sex/toilet/who knows what else. We decided it is going to be either a YWAM base or YWAM hospitality house, or an orphanage. :) Powerful stuff.
Fun going out to the farms and the farmschools....makes me want to teach out there! SO so beautiful, as well as in need of teachers.
Mossel Bay we did a sweet drug protset thing with the youth and got sweet neon green shirts. That was my hightlight haha. Oh and we saw a whale in the bay.
In Worchester we worked with the crech, and all the little children..they were crazy, i got attacked by 4 year olds and needed someone to pull them off me more than once. I got some battle wounds that week, those crazy kids. I bought them a soccer ball.
THEN!!! We had a week of debreifing, in which we did NO ministry, we were in Vlesse Baai, (dunno how to spell). And we were stuck inside all week, (well 3 days) Becuase it was SO windy, i thought there was a hurricane. We were staying at a friends place rigtht on the beach, and the sea was like, .... so angry and scary and it was windy, so we stayed cooped up inside. So that was a week of de-berifing the last 3 months of outreach! It went very well, our team loves eachother, thanks to Gods grace. :)
THEN GRADUATION!!!!!
Back into Jeffreys Bay, got to connect with the Swazilan/Mozamique team, did some much needded catching up and started to plan for our grad in 4 days.
My MOTHER showed up day of graduation, yes, all the way from CAnada!!! YAY! Praise the Lord, He answered prayer.....:) so it was lovely having her there, and we hung out on the base for a few days. ...
Grad was awseome, we all dressed up, graduated, i shared a testimony of my life and Gods goodness, it was so so good. I love everyone so much.
THEN!! Everyone Peace's out and my mom and I take off up the East Coast.
Its been so good so far. First stop in Chintsa...a nice place on the beach, the second night we were woken up by monkeys on the roof. It is beautiful there.
THEN wow, long story here.....sho, well, we didndt get on our bus out of there, so we had to pay a crazy amount to get a personal taxi to the next big town 45 minutes away ,East London, and then catch like a Greyhound type bus to Durban - our next desination. (Where we needed to be to continue our trip) SO. Luckey for us this bus going to Durban is 5 hours late! So we hop on this bus just in time. Thank the Lord the bus was 5 hours late haha. Then i think it was just a slow driver, cuz it then took is more then 8 hours to get to Durban, and we arrived at 2:15 in the morrning. So here we are at this bus stop at 200 AM. Alll alone pretty much. Waiting for our taxi for 1 hour. Get into the backpackers at 3:30AM. Get up 3.5 hours later at 7:30Am to get the bus out of there to our next stop. Hectic,, but fun.
Okay, i'm in my last 5 minutes on the comp, so i'll go now, and write more later!!
Back in Augest.
Love. God Bless. Love.
Tierney. :)
it is harder for me to type after no computer for 6 months, except for randomly, so this is going to take a while, also, its been a month since writing anything,and alot has happend!
I shall spare you the nitty gritty details......
So after Cape Town we went and did some farm ministry in Ashton and Worchester (Pronnounced "Vusta") haha. Yes. It was great, annd its acctaully all a blur to me, i only will share a few highlights....
Ashton - Amazing prayer-time in a old building that is used for drugs/sex/toilet/who knows what else. We decided it is going to be either a YWAM base or YWAM hospitality house, or an orphanage. :) Powerful stuff.
Fun going out to the farms and the farmschools....makes me want to teach out there! SO so beautiful, as well as in need of teachers.
Mossel Bay we did a sweet drug protset thing with the youth and got sweet neon green shirts. That was my hightlight haha. Oh and we saw a whale in the bay.
In Worchester we worked with the crech, and all the little children..they were crazy, i got attacked by 4 year olds and needed someone to pull them off me more than once. I got some battle wounds that week, those crazy kids. I bought them a soccer ball.
THEN!!! We had a week of debreifing, in which we did NO ministry, we were in Vlesse Baai, (dunno how to spell). And we were stuck inside all week, (well 3 days) Becuase it was SO windy, i thought there was a hurricane. We were staying at a friends place rigtht on the beach, and the sea was like, .... so angry and scary and it was windy, so we stayed cooped up inside. So that was a week of de-berifing the last 3 months of outreach! It went very well, our team loves eachother, thanks to Gods grace. :)
THEN GRADUATION!!!!!
Back into Jeffreys Bay, got to connect with the Swazilan/Mozamique team, did some much needded catching up and started to plan for our grad in 4 days.
My MOTHER showed up day of graduation, yes, all the way from CAnada!!! YAY! Praise the Lord, He answered prayer.....:) so it was lovely having her there, and we hung out on the base for a few days. ...
Grad was awseome, we all dressed up, graduated, i shared a testimony of my life and Gods goodness, it was so so good. I love everyone so much.
THEN!! Everyone Peace's out and my mom and I take off up the East Coast.
Its been so good so far. First stop in Chintsa...a nice place on the beach, the second night we were woken up by monkeys on the roof. It is beautiful there.
THEN wow, long story here.....sho, well, we didndt get on our bus out of there, so we had to pay a crazy amount to get a personal taxi to the next big town 45 minutes away ,East London, and then catch like a Greyhound type bus to Durban - our next desination. (Where we needed to be to continue our trip) SO. Luckey for us this bus going to Durban is 5 hours late! So we hop on this bus just in time. Thank the Lord the bus was 5 hours late haha. Then i think it was just a slow driver, cuz it then took is more then 8 hours to get to Durban, and we arrived at 2:15 in the morrning. So here we are at this bus stop at 200 AM. Alll alone pretty much. Waiting for our taxi for 1 hour. Get into the backpackers at 3:30AM. Get up 3.5 hours later at 7:30Am to get the bus out of there to our next stop. Hectic,, but fun.
Okay, i'm in my last 5 minutes on the comp, so i'll go now, and write more later!!
Back in Augest.
Love. God Bless. Love.
Tierney. :)
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