This past week has been great!  I got to go shopping a couple times in around where I live which was great.  I bought some sweet summer dresses and skirts because it has been crazy hot here.  A couple days ago it was 45 degrees with the humidity! It was crazy!  God has been so amazing though! It’s awesome to have a pool that I cn jump into anytime!  

This past Friday our house threw a Pool Party for all the new students this year. It was heaps of fun.  There was about 30 of us all together and it was great to spend time getting to know all the other students and also enjoy a barbie and a afternoon in the pool!  

Monday was Australia Day!!  Our house spent the morning together making pancakes and then in the evening we bussed down to the city to Darling Harbour where we grabbed starbucks and dinner and then watched the fireworks! They were great!  It was raining the whole time, but I bought a full length Aussie flag for $5 and wore it as a cape to keep me dry!

Today was the first day of Orientation and it was amazing!  God did so many amazing things today and it was only the first day!!  Holy Spirit was so present in the building all day.  One of the pastors from a Mexican Extension Service spoke at the last session we had today and he was totally going for it!  He was speaking out prophetic words over us and people were receiving gifts of the Spirit for the first time.  It was soo good.  God is amazing, I am just in awe of how thick and awesome His presence is here.  I am so excited for all that God has planned in this next season for me and all of us at college!  Chris Hill was here this past weekend and he was prophesying that this year was going to be a year of a double anointing here in our lives and in the church bodies.  It can honestly only get better from here!

I leave for Powerhouse Retreat on Thrusday and I’m so pumped for all that God is going to do this weekend! 

Much love to you all! 

xoxo

So...I killed a spider today...

It has been a great couple of days here in Sydney!  The weather is beautiful, it was over 30 today I believe.  I got lots of sun, but it's been great!

Here is the rundown on what I've been up too!

I went to my first service at Hillsong on Saturday night and it was AMAZING!! I loved every minute of it.  It's a lot shorter than a normal tacf service - its about an hour and a half, but soo great. The worship is amazing and then they have a time of where they share testimonies and prayer requests with the congregation and we all pray for those people (their names are just on cards that one of the hosts read out) and then someone shares the word.  The teaching has been really good already.  I love church, the people are so genuine and everyone makes an effort to introduce themselves to you!  It's crazy, I think I've met like 300 people since last week!

I spent Sunday morning at church as well, followed by a lunch with some of the 2nd year students at their house!  The 2nd year students are amazing here and are so helpful and hospitable, its just amazing! I went to the service on Sunday night as well and God did some AMAZING stuff that night.  It was full on.  

Monday was another great day.  Met up with some students for coffee and I taught aquafit to a few of my roomates at our house (oh, did i mention we have a pool in our backyard?)  So that was tons of fun!  

Today, about 20 of us went to Rouse Hill, which is a shopping centre here.  We bused down ($4.40 each way, yikes!) and then spent some time shopping and having some good fun.  Then this afternoon I spent by the pool soaking up the sun.. It was soo hot here today!!

Anywho, just wanted to keep you all updated. I love you all and miss you.  Leave me a comment so I know you are reading this!!

Lots of love,

Nicole

oh ps.  did I mention that I killed my first spider tonight!! yes, I know, very exciting indeed.  

The First Few Days...

Hello beautiful friends and family,

So, I'm going to bring blogging back for you all to keep you updated on my adventures here in Australia. 

I left Toronto at midnight on Tuesday we arrived with my friend Jillayna at 9pm on Wednesday in Sydney.  We have a really long flight with some nasty plane food.  I experience the most dodgy chicken ever!!  We were so happy to arrive here at and it a beautiful summer evening!!!  We arrived at our house after being taken grocery shopping very quickly by a college graduate and then we talked to a girl, Richelle which is living at our place for the next few days...she was a college student last year...

The house is AMAZING!!!  We will have 11 girls living here in total for the year, so it will be quite an adventure I think!  So far its Jillayna, myself, Lynn and Helga from Norway, and there are 6 returning college students arriving next week and we have another newbie coming at some point!  We have a salt water pool in our back yard which is sooo nice!!  We're a 10 minute walk to the college which is amazing!  Right across the street from Hillsong Church is a small shopping centre...with a grocery store, banks, bakery, and of course gloria jeans (this is starbucks in Australia!)     I will post picturs sof the house soon!!

The first day (Thursday) in Sydney we spent at the college and shopping.  I had to go pay the college some money, had to wait like 3 hours cause there were so many people there...all were so many new students too, but it was great to meet them all!  There are soo many Canadians here!  Then in the around dinner time Richelle took us to the mall about a 10 minute drive away where we got some house hold items, including a $10 full-length mirror that makes anyone look anorexic!  We also did some grocery shopping and got our phones set up!

On Friday, we met up with a girl Heather who is here for college too, shes from BC.  We had coffee at gloria jeans and then she came over and we spent the afternoon in the sun and in the pool... totally not trying to rub in the BEAUTIUFUL weather in Sydney right now..

Tonight is my first service at Hillsong since being here!  I'm so pumped!!

Hope this update thing isn't too boring!!  I will try and get some picture up on facebook soon.

Love you all and please pray for me here, the weather is soo hot sometimes....it's hard to walk to college in this extreme heat..

haha LOVE YOU ALL!!!