Thanks for eveyones emails and blog messages over the last few weeks. Its been an awesome experience and I'm glad I could share it with you all. I will try to wrap things up here and provide an overall look from my prospective.
What a week and its almost the end of my stay here argh... doesn't time fly when you are having fun! This week hasn't been as action packed as other weeks but still a lot has happened so I will try my best to give you a good run down...
This week has been full on and a lot of work but its been really cool to help the brothers out when needed and feel more like I am part of the community! I don't know if it just has something to do with the time of year or the fact that I am just visiting the right place at the right time but it certainly makes for good blogging :-P
Its been a few days since I last blogged and a lot has happened so will try to be brief. Thanks everyone for your emails and messages, it means so much!
The heat has been uncomfortable - its not at all like the lovely weather back home lol. I am kinda getting used to it but everytime I go outside it really hits you.... and inside usually isn't that much better :-( you can't really escape it..... All I need to do is drink heaps of water and harden up haha! Having a fan in my bedroom makes it a lot more comfortable at night.
Day 2 - 4, I am now in Santa Teresa and loving it! No cell coverage as my phone doesn't support the cellphone connection here but there has been lots happening so will blog about as much as I can as to what has been happening over the past few days over here. Contact me via email for the time being till further notice.
If you don't know what is happening to me now, I am off on an adventure of a lifetime over to a place called Santa Teresa (which is roughly an hour south of Alice Springs) to live and work in a community of Marist Brothers who teach at a local school in the community there. I am not too sure whats going to happen but you will find out by reading my blogs over the next 4 weeks and hopefully share in my experiences and maybe even come out yourself one day? Who knows...
Just went on a tramp in the bush with my community, a few other friends (which included my sister Clare) and 4 boys from Holy Cross School in Miramar! This was organised to give these boys a new experience, challenge them and to get them out of their homes and away from some of the problems which exist there for a little while.
It has been a while but as I was clearing the spam that was appearing on my comments and adding spam protection to the comment form, it occured to me that I have been ignoring my blog so I thought i would write a bit about what I have been up to recently.