Travel

So I couldn't sleep very well last night. It was just not working for me because I had stayed up late the previous two nights. Anyways, as I was trying to fall asleep I got this sudden urge to pack my backpackers backpack. I didn't know where I wanted to go, but I wanted to go somewhere overseas. I still want to go somewhere. I want to go to Europe at the moment actually. I haven't been able to get it out of my head these last few days. I want to backpack through Europe. I think that will probably be the next big trip I go on. Yet, I know I am supposed to be here at home right now. I want to be here right now. I am enjoying my time here at home, growing close with the lord and learning how to depend on him and be patient. Yet, a part of my heart is growing in its fondness for Europe. I really don't know that much about it, I just crave the adventure it will bring. Don’t get me wrong, I think its a healthy craving, as long as I continue to give it to God so that I don't run wild with it and distort it and ruin it by trying to make it my own.

Growing up

Since being home from Ohio, now going on three days, I have begun to notice new interests in myself. For instance, I had a strong urge and desire to do all the dishes in my kitchen at home the other night. Now, I never minded doing kitchen stuff at camp or while in Australia, but doing it at home has always been a different story. Regardless, I found myself doing them. Then I also have this new found interest in learning how to cook a few dishes. I have never been much of a cooker, and I still haven't explored that area that much. Yet, I have been craving different dishes my mom likes to make since I have been home from Australia. Now, normally I would just get her to make them, but in these last three days...well... I want to make them so that I know how to make them. I even told my mom that I would make lasagna next week if she told me how to do it. I am also thinking of asking her about making waffles and quiche and... I don't know... food. I don't know if this desire to learn is going to stay or if its just a phase... I am kind of hoping it stays and that I have a natural creativity and talent for the kitchen so that I will be able to enjoy good food all my life as well as enjoy making it.
On top of those kitchen things, I have begun to organize and clean my room. I have never wanted to clean my room before as much as I do now. I want it to be neat. It has always been messy because cleaning has never been my thing, but here I am wanting to make my room look "pretty". Anyways, I feel like I am finally growing up. I just wonder how long I will actually stay grown up in this way, with all this cooking and cleaning.

Ohio

I can't believe how much I like traveling. I love how God makes things work out, such as me going to Ohio last week for 6 days. Yep that’s right, I got to go to Ohio and still have a little money left. I can't wait until my next trip. It could be flying somewhere or just a road trip. It doesn't really matter to me. The other week I went to Brandon with my mom for a day. Why did I go? I think it was because I wanted to go on a road trip, and my mom invited me because she was going out there for work. I should probably be going though. (I don't know if anyone actually reads this blog, and a feel a little like a loner if people don't and all these blogs are just to myself.....whatever, at least I enjoy writing them)

Cocoanuts

I don't really think this is a good picture of myself, but I figured out how to put pictures on my blog now, and so I felt like, not only putting on a picture story, but one of myself that I guess would tell a story. Here I am drinking hot chocolate out of a cocoanut, in Airlie Beach Australia. Yep, I drank hot chocolate out of a cocoanut. And for your information the hot chocolate was not made with Cocoanut milk, though now that I think about it, that would have been interesting to try.

And the picture below is of me in the province of Kampot in Cambodia. Yep, I am out in the middle of some rice fields were we had helped our doctor run health clinics. The village of people, as a way of welcoming us, had given our whole team our own Cocoanut. So here I am taking a picture of myself with my wonderfully good tasting Cocoanut. And yes there is a king of clubs in the top of my cocoanut because I found it randomly in the middle of nowhere, in the rice field of Cambodia. I thought it was an odd find for the middle of Cambodia, so i made sure it
ended up in a picture with me. Finally the writing is going down beside the second picture. This is kind of annoying. I wish all of it would go beside the picture but I don't know how to do that. I wish I had another picture of myself with a cocoanut so I could get a really good theme going. But all I have is a picture of some cows from Cambodia, so that will have to do for now.

Picture story