i'm here!

hallo! it's a beautiful early sunday afternoon in the suburbs.

our group got back from spiro camp on friday afternoon. basic schedule ran as thus: sing. eat. sing. listen to talk. eat. sing. free time. sing. eat. listen to talk... something like that. we learned the joys of morning and afternoon tea, which are COMPLETELY DIFFERENT MEALS from lunch, breakfast or dinner. it was slightly ridiculous, with a huge heap of awesome.
had some great conversations with people, got around well enough despite knee issues. (i complain. whatever.)

yesterday was a day of adventuring, thanks to sydney public transportation. i thought we were gettiing on a train to paramatta, but the train decided it didn't want to go the whole way. so they diverted us to a bus, which got us where we wanted to go. on our way home, we jumped on a bus we thought was going to a place where we could connect to a train to get home. after riding it for a half hour and discovering it did not indeed go where we thought, we transferred to another bus going into the city filled with loud young people. (i felt so old--i was so tired and wanted these kids to just sit down and be quiet...ahh.) but we made it to the city, wandered about, and made it home on the night bus. all in all, a full and wonderful day.

let me know how y'all are. (the aussies, by the way, crack up when i break into southern drawl. it's fantastic.)