My Life By a Snapshot

Hi there friends, A lot has happened in the past week and a half. I wrote to you just after I came back early from spring break in Canada. When I came back to school I was told that it would be remaining open as long as the government would allow us to be open. I got back to Texas on the Tuesday (March 17th) and I was grateful to be back in Texas as many students chose to go home or not come back to school after the break. I didn't want to be anywhere else. On the Thursday (March 19th) we were given the news we didn't want to hear. The governor of Texas mandated that all schools in Texas would be closed for two weeks. They hoped that we could reopen after these two weeks and finish up our semester. But it would be re-evaluated after two weeks and we would abide by the governors mandate. For many students this meant they were going home and some wouldn't return. We were down to 25 students at this point. All of us who wants to stay or couldn't go home just for two wee...

Hey there, So, I've officially moved to Texas! I landed here in Austin late on the 31st of August. I will be staying with Noah's family until I move into the dorm at His Hill on the 11th of September. Leaving Canada was really hard but being here is also really nice. It felt like the whole week leading up to leaving was just one great big goodbye. That was really hard honestly. It was so drawn out and I was close to tears a few times. But, I haven't actually cried yet. However, leaving made me once again realise just how lucky and blessed I was to be where I was and have what I had. God gave me a wonderful workplace that gave me some fantastic experience and some wonderful friends. I learned so much there. He also blessed me with an absolutely one of a kind, amazing church. The teaching was challenging, brutally honest and purely Biblical. Every Sunday left me feeling satisfied and fulfilled yet challenged and questioning in the best way possible. The people there inc...

Hi there, I think we're all well aware of the fact that I've moved across the world multiple times! The first time I was 2 months old when my family moved from Canada to Australia. The next time was 10 when we moved back to Canada from Australia. Four years later we moved from Canada to Cambodia. Then I moved for the first time alone from Cambodia to Canada via Australia for two weeks and Texas for another two weeks. This time I'm not moving quite so far. Just down to Texas. A four-hour flight away. So, through all these moves I've definitely made some mistake and through those mistakes, I've learned a lot!  Get your ducks in a row! By this is mean get organized by writing a list! This has helped me tremendously in this specific move. I have a lot to do in preparation. So, when I first got here I sat down wrote a list of all the things I had to do. Then, on each of my days off, I chose one to tackle. That gave me ten months to check off the whole list. I tr...