whoa day

yay i graduated! good tidings and uplifting delayed confetti blasts. no more soul ties to this place... haha i lie, there are a lot. in all of my student brothers and sisters, and parental staffers. love them all. the first few days were just getting settled back into the base for final days, cleaning, graduating, starting to say goodbye (but not to the point of tears... friggen yet!) we had some teaching on re-entry, just how hard its gonna be and how hard satan is gonna come at us to get us off of our spiritual high. like a lion ready waiting to crouch.. armor of God get on me. we had a pretty fun night of saying hello and goodbye to friends that we'd met on NZ outreach, as well as some pretty awkward 'ceremony' moments... what with silence and a very poorly produced cd in the background... i mean it was a really good night but i think tonight will blow it out of the water. honouring night... where we tell anyone what we think about them in a good way, and in a way say our final goodbyes to one another since we leave tomorrow morning. its been a pretty long bumpy ride but.. man its been good and stretching and i know God brought me here for a reason. so.. tonight is gonna be so so hard, and at the same time so good. time to close this season of life with lots of loving. and crying. sigh...

now i just can't wait to travel. so soon... jake ithy decided to join us (because he discovered his flight isn't till monday...) going to wellington, so our crew is joanna, sylvia, nik, jake and me. were gonna get a minivan (hopefully) and leave saturday morning and get back by monday, an then us minus jake fly down to christchurch. we rented a motorhome because anything smaller would be illegal with more than 3 people... since we plan on sleeping anywhere we get tired. its gonna be a good time. i'm only a little nervous because the motorhome is gonna be the biggest thing i've driven on real roads before. but... more growth i guess. sites to see, hikes to hike, memories to solidify. stoked. i hope i happen across cheap ink.