Life in Bozeman

Hello strangers!

I have nearly been in America for 2 months!! Can ya believe it?!?! Amazing! I feel like I've been here for ages, but also that I've hardly been here at all! I've finally gotten into a bit of a routine which is nice :) So I thought I'd tell ya what my week normally looks like!

Monday
I start class at 8:30, so get up about 7:00, get ready, have breakfast and walk to class. At the moment I am doing book club at a primary school in the after school program so I have that at 3:45 to 4:45. I've figured out the bus system and it gets me there and picks me up at the perfect times! :) The rest of the day I do homework and eat... seriously I feel like I eat all the time... I'm gonna be so fat when I get home!!! :P

Tuesday
Class starts at 8:00 today, then I do homework/hang out till lunch and the go straight from lunch to class at 3:00. That's the end of my Tuesday of classes so I just do homework, meet up with friends, hang out. Ya know... nothing much....

Wednesday
I get a sleep in today! No class till 11:00!!! Then lunch and class at 1:40. After that I hang out, have dinner with some friends and we all walk over to Jennifer's house for Bible study at 7! It is so much fun :) Normally there's about 15-20 of us girls squished in Jen's little house. It's great! We get home normally about 9 / 9:30 and then I sorta go to bed...

Thursday
Class at 8:00, then more homework... there really is a lot of homework to do every week :P I have lunch and then class again at 1:40. And then at 7 is CrossLife! The college age Bible study at Grace Bible Church (my church). So normally I have dinner with some friends and we catch a ride over together :)

Friday
I have class at 8:00... it's my super long one... 2 1/2 hours!!!! For one class!! Crazy! Especially at the end of the week at 8:00... not so fun... :P After class I normally don't do too much. I've sometimes had a nap... walked to the town library... gone shopping... whatever! I also normally Skype my family today!! :) So if you want to be added to the Skype list let me know ;) I also have been going to an International student Bible study at Sarah Anne's house on Friday

Saturday
I don't do too much normally. I sleep in! Do homework, hang out, walk up the main street, all sorts of things! Hang out with friends :)

Sunday
Church doesn't start till 10:45 so I get another sleep in and then if I'm walking I leave at 10ish or if I'm getting a lift not till 10:30. So then the rest of the day I hang out with friends, watch movies, don't do that much :)


So there's my week! Nothing too amazing... but still really fun :) Snowy days are my favourite, although it makes it hard to go anywhere :P The last week has been really warm... like in the positives!!!!! Amazing!! :D

I feel like I've been doing so much but I dunno what else to tell you guys! Class and homework seems to take up a lot of my time... but I still spend heaps of time with my new friends :) I had a sleep over the other week, which was really fun! And just basically lived a Bozeman life!! With snow and all!

Snowy Adventures

Well hello there!

It feels like I haven't written anything is ages!! ...although it really hasn't been too long :P I've been doing so much though!! So just a warning... this is gonna be a big blog post!

To fill you all in on a few things I've been up to...

• I went and watched Frozen last weekend! It was awesome :) 
• I went to a Chinese New Year party with really good food ;)
• I had waffles for lunch... and they were amazing! Sunday breakfast in the dining halls goes till 11 and it is always really good on Sunday!
• I watched some of the Super Bowl with 2 of my international friends... although we really needed an American because we had no idea what was going on!! We were watching and Googling at the same time trying to figure it all out! :P
• I've had lots of homework this week... lots of group assignments to do 
• It has been a majorly cold week!!! I think the warmest it has been is -16. The coldest has been -30!!! That is super duper cold! Although I have realised that it gets to a point when every temperature is just the same... freezing!! So I'e been wearing basically all my clothes all week :P 
• My heater stopped heating my room... not so fun... then someone came and fixed it and now I have a warm room again! ...very fun :)

And now I'm up to the weekend!! (bear with me... this may be long...) So, the church I'm going to, Grace Bible Church, had a Women's Advance (a retreat, but we are advancing in our faith, not retreating!!) We went to a little campsite about 30 minutes out of Bozeman called RockHaven (owned by a Presbyterian church). We got there Friday afternoon and unpacked, had dinner and then had a speaker talk to us about modesty. It was really great! Talking about how we need a modest heart as well as modest clothing. We then played games and hung out till lights out at midnight. 

We woke up at 8 and had breakfast and another speaker, the pastors wife. And she talked to us about having a gentle and quiet spirit. We had lunch and then a whole bunch of us headed out to go exploring!! We found an area with lots of different activities (the type of ones we do on school camp... team building ones) So we did some of them and then most people headed back because they were cold... it was super cold outside... like -20 probably :P 

But I did not go back! I was ready to explore and hike all through the snow :) So me and 3 other girls kept going. We ended up climbing up this mountain through knee deep snow to a bit of a rocky ledge. It was so much fun!! Hiking in the snow is really hard though... because it's pretty slippery and easy to slide down the mountain! 2 of the girls kept going up a super steep bit and I stayed with the other girl and then we all met up again down the bottom. Going down was so much fun because you just gotta crouch down and slide on your feet all the way down!!! It was awesome :) On the way back to camp I made a snow angel!!!! The snow was super deep (about knee deep) so it was really hard to get out of but it was such fun :D

The rest of the weekend was more speakers and making friends and hanging out :) It was such good fun. I really loved it. Over the weekend I took 132 photos :P So I won't put them all up but I'll put up some for ya all. It was absolutely beautiful!!!!!!! 

It's hard to see but this bit was really steep! The trees were good to pull ourselves up with :)

This is where I stopped and 2 of the girls kept going. It seemed nearly vertical!!! It was steep and slippery but I bet the view was gorgeous! Kelly and I just sat on the side of the mountain and tried not to slip down!

Cold nose! :P

My beautiful snow angel!!! :D You can even see the top of my beanie made a mark! 

This is the 4 of us that went up the mountain... me, Keona, Kelly and Sarah :)

Sarah decided we needed to plank the bridge... I tried and failed... but Sarah and Kelly were really good!!! :D

This slide would be fun... 

This is Steph. I had lunch with her today and she is about to do an exchange to USQ in Toowoomba!!! We were both so excited to meet each other and talk about Toowoomba and Bozeman and traveling and studying abroad and life! She is doing elementary education too :) And she is really lovely!! I am so excited for her to be going to Toowoomba. Everyone needs to be her friend!! We realised that I know lots of her friends and even one of her cousins!! Small world :)