O-week at the RMIT's

This is the video that i made to send to my church to thank them for giving us money for o-day.

thought you would like it SLASH thought we needed a new video!!!

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Big Breakkkkk

"if you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans"
So, once again I had my mind set about not doing something (going to big break) and what happened??? Oh, I'm going to Big Break-- Shocker. God is so funny in always making me do exactly opposite of what I think I want. Last time it turned out pretty well (Australia!) so I figure this will too. If you all could pray for me though while I'm there that would be awesome, we'll be doing a lot of Evang and I haven't really done that since sumproj so it'll be a challenge. I have a lot to tell you all so I'll post a vlog soon.


LOVE YOU!
Abby

thoughts bouncing around in my head

Here are my ramblings and thoughts...

I will be praying for O-week, keep us posted about how things are going or any specific requests.

Josh, Allen, Dan & I are going to be going on another trip together and I am getting excited to be able to hang out with them again but it is making me miss all of you even more. Spring break is coming up in a couple of weeks and the four of us (plus 40 some other Cru. Hokies) are going to Chicago for a service project mission trip. I'll be sure to report anything good that happens.

I have been experiencing cabin fever these past few weeks because of all the snow, ice and wind we have been getting but we got a break from the weather and saw the sun today! Tomorrow is the Interior Design Career Fair and I am unsure what to do at it. I know God is bringing me to Melbourne next year but for some reason I feel like I need to go to the career fair too, wondering what God will show me tomorrow.

People here are still calling me boxed wine (nickname I received from Dan on the plane BACK to America). Thought you should know that for some reason.

Does anyone else think it is ironic that we no longer post vlogs? I'll put a video of Spring Break together for you all (as long as it doesn't crash my computer)

love & miss you! thanks for reading my random thoughts
<3 cole

Kick-Off & O Week

2010 is officially starting for SL. We just went on Kick-Off Camp in a gross scout camp that had bugs everywhere and it was super hot. We would sit and do nothing and sweat. Yuk. But it was about training and preparing for the year ahead, in particular O Week. Here's the line-up of our stall days. Please pray for O Week, the students we meet, the surveys we do...

Tuesday
RMIT Bundoora: 11-2pm (Me, Lime, Sheila, Nate, Ron..maybs others)

Thursday
LaTrobe: 12-2 (Joy, Yenny, Jerusha and others)
Melb Uni: 11-3 (Amy, Amy, Kristen, Craig and others)
RMIT City: 3-7 (Me, Lime, Josh, Sheila and maybs others)

Friday
Melb Uni: Pool comp and roaming outreach
RMIT: Social event (ice skating)

It's gonna be a busy week preparing and praying and trusting.
Lime and I are making the survival packs to give to interested students and there'll be an O Week wrap-up video I'm sure!

Oh and Melb Uni and RMIT are combining servant teams. We're becoming RUMU.

AND IM SO EXCITED BESS AND NICOLE!!!!

I'm coming back!

It's official for me, too! I'll see you in one year!!!!

Snow, Snow, Snow!

So, here we are in Radford and we have gotten so much snow in the last two weeks it has been ridiculous! Unfortunately it all keeps falling on the weekends so we haven't really gotten any school off. Our fist snowed in weekend (Feb. 1-3) my roomates and two of my friends camped out in my living room for the entire weekend! We moved the furniture and basically made a huge bed on the floor and didn't move the whole weekend. I think the movie count was at 9 or 10 by Sunday evening. haha we were lazy bums. This past weekend (Feb.8-10) we were snowed in again however we were actually active. Due to the great success of the weekend before we once again camped out in the living room this time we did more than watch movies though! On Friday night we stole lunch trays from the cafeteria and used them to sled=funnest thing ever! We did this for quite a while and once again on Saturday (see the awesome video below and there are more on facebook) for some reason everyone laughs at me when sledding I guess its because I get super excited. We also had a massive snowball fight on Saturday I'm pretty sure there were 50+ people there! It was awesome and the next day my arm hurt ! haha So now I'm sitting in class waiting for the next wave of snow to come through. I'm also quite excited because Bess will be here on Thursday!!!!!!! And this weekend I'm going to the NEXT conference cru puts on which I think will really help me to decide what to do after graduation. I also get the opportunity to watch my little sister play volleyball (her tournament is about 15 minutes away from my hotel) which I am so excited about. I'm going to surprise her :) I love to watch her play and spend time with her. So thats a quick update on whats been going on these past couple of weeks. I miss you all and want to skype soon please! Check out this video: I'm the one with my hands in the air (clearly). LOVE, ABBY!

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=471937520163

-I'm going to try and get the original file and actually post the video up here