Day 14: what a day in sydney town!

day 14: exploring the city with other HILC students

today was... wow.

just wow.

i mean, it was fun and all, meeting more students, exploring the city, walking around a LOT, and taking in the humidity. (we explored the 3 storied Apple store, The Rocks, Starbucks :D, bbt @ chinatown, the SEC, Darling Harbour, taking the ferry from Circular Quay back to Parramatta!)

but my fave part of the day had to be at Starbucks. okay okay... i know what you're thinking. pay "six-bucks" for starbucks (no joke) for a grande double blended javachip frap made my day? haha... (it tasted okay). but no.. it was more so the fact that 4 of us (Sonia/Canada, Tommy/Sweden, Daniel/Germany) got our drinks, sat outside on the patio, and just had a really great time of chatting and sharing. we shared our stories of how we all ended up at HILC, and it was good to know that we had all heard of HILC for a few years, prayed about it, waited on God, and listened for His voice, before finally deciding and settling on HILC. i guess we were also a slightly "older" bunch who had finished high school, done more education, worked for a bit... so that contributed to it.

then Daniel asked me, "where do you wanna go with your studies? like waht do you want to do with TV & Media?"

tbh, i had never really truly thought it out. i mean... theres always the dreams/wishes of touring the world with hillsong united/live or Passion ministries, but this time, i just spoke what came to my mind at that moment. cus i also told them about my geography undergrad degree. and when you put the two together, what do you get? using TV/media/digital communications to tell ppl about God's wonderful creations. like... working for the NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC. or Discovery Channel (y'know.. that program where it shows you all the animals and/or nature and such) or even stuff like BBC's PLANET EARTH.

how amazing would that be?

and thats when he told me, "don't hope that. BELIEVE in it. and it will happen."

this is where faith comes in.

do i want to do great things, and all of the glory will point back to God? of course i do!

do i have a clue how to go about in doing that? uh... nope.

do i believe that it will happen thru Him who gives me strength? YES.

let this HILC journey begin!

Day 15 / 2mrw: orientation!

goodnight.