solomon islands here i am.

yet i am leaving in about a half an hour for the drive to Auckland. i cant believe this day has finally come. i am actually leaving. i am some what sad but super excited. i think it is because i am so tired. i just had to do one more blog in this blog i would like to show everyone where the Solomons actually are.




so yeah now you know!!!! lol so i am going to wrap this up quick now! i will miss you all and i love you too. please still send me comments and emails it will be something to look forward to when i get Internet back in three weeks. wow the blog will be insane when i get back. think of three weeks of blogs....wow i don't even know if i am up for the job!! I'm really ending it now.

see you all in three weeks!

love from me in nz

outreach prep.

because we are getting ready for outreach i haven't had that much time to blog. i have been so busy getting everything i need to pack when we leave. skyping everyone back home because oh yeah i will not have Internet for the next three weeks!!! i know how sad. but it will be okay i promise. sadly i will not be bringing graham so i will have to find Internet cafes if i want to maybe get on. i will most likely only go a few times just to check in if i have the opportunity and what it costs. i am a poor child! so yeah on that note i would just like to point out that i am leaving for outreach/Solomon islands in, lets see...two days!!!!!!!!! i cant believe this. half of our school left yesterday. they are in Samoa. and it is really funny because Samoa you have to cross the date line so they lived Friday twice. weird eh. it is like when i call home and they are like it is Saturday there. you would think that because i have been here for three months now that this fact would not blow their minds so much and that they would get the time difference. i mean i called Eden today and she didn't know what time it was there and i did. in her defence i have nifty clock on graham's desktop that has the time at home so that i never call home at like three in the morning. i do what i can. i have called so many people this week. i have skyped with jace everyday. we even watched the hills together the other day. oh the Internet. and i have called Eden everyday while she was getting here hair done for the play so i can keep her company. it is the greatest time to call because all my Friends are there. all my Friends so plays so how amazing is that all my friends are all together in the same room getting there make-up done. wow that was a weird sentence. but i also get to talk to my favorite teachers. i love Witt dawg!!!!!! and i got to talk to papa T. that man is amazing and mama T works with my brother. yeah Dallas is a cop. can you say end of sneaking around, breaking the law, or dating anyone. lol jk Dallas is a gentle giant unless you piss him off. that also goes with all the men in our house. i miss my Cole boys!! Dallas with baby, Seth with work and Idaho soon and daddy in Alaska. weird my dad is in Alaska. but cool too. he actually has a blog too. he got me started. he is not just any og, he is an og with a blog...and a palm! yeah my dad is cooler than your dad, yeah i said it. well unless your dad is.....Santa but i don't thing Santa ever had kids...unless Santa really is Tim Allen. okay moving on....

so yeah leaving soon. we are all getting ready. we are going to be doing a construction project in the Solomons so we have to raise 1000 dollars before we leave because oh yeah didn't mention, THAT WE RAISED ALL THE MONEY FOR OUR FLIGHTS!! ALL 16800 OF IT BABY! pretty exciting so we are getting more money. we had a car wash today and made about 400 dollars. not bad, not bad. we are not sure how the rest of the money is going to get in the account but we know that God will provide. please join with us in prayer about that. we leave midnight on Monday so well Tuesday if you want to be all technical. we have a flights at 6 am and we fly to Australia. we have three hour lay over and then off the Solomons. luckily we don't loose a day just one hour ahead i believe so then only three hours being USA. since the other team has left it is really quiet on the ship and my side of the room where we sleep i am the only one and it kinda scares me. it is really sad i really do miss them. just keep telling myself i will see them in three weeks and then road trip. oh yeah heads up i will not bring graham on that tour either. just on more thing to carry get lost, stolen or broken. hopefully we will go bungee jumping there because bungee jumping was invented on the south island of nz. wont that be amazing. i better go to bed now i am really tired from washing all those cars. but here are some pictures of all of us in our team shirts:



also while we were washing cars i fell in love....with a car we washed. i seriously couldn't work i just stared at it. it is perfect and i want one! it is amazing and my favorite color. what do you think?



well I'm out now. get ahold of me asap before you know it i will be gone. to Eden and jacy. beware we have a date!!! love and miss you all.

love from me in nz

canadian thanksgiving!

so today was Canadian thanksgiving. i don't really know why they have it but they do. it is the same food but a month earlier. it was really nice to have because we will be on outreach when real thanksgiving happens and we will most likely not celebrate it in the islands. the Canadians were all into it and had the best time. Steven [a Canadian] almost died of happiness i think. we was so happy he made everyone Canadian coffee from the coffee he got from home a week before. i have to say that those Canadians make a good cup of coffee. so you may ask why i have not written for a while. well this is because i just got back for GREAT BARRIER ISLAND!!! it was so beautiful. i knew that i was not going to have Internet there because we were going to be ankered in the middle of a bay but sadly the day before the Internet here crashed so i didn't have time to warn you all that i was not going to have contact for a few days. and for that i am sorry because i could have gone to an Internet cafe and make an entry but i was too lazy and sick to do it. yeah i got sick again. every change of season and it is becoming summer here now!! yeah boy! so now that i have covered that here are some pictures of where i spent my weekend.

jack playing football with an other anyone...


view from the beach back at the camp.


view from the look out.


look out again. white thing in the middle in our ship.


so yeah that was amazing but was more amazing than that is that we had a bollywood dance party on the last night there! we all dressed to impress and guess what....i won!!! well me and lane! cool eh. i don't know what the prize is yet but i get it! so yeah at home they were going to homecoming and i went to a bollywood party. let me tell you i think i had more fun. it was the time of my life to see out captain Jeremy dance like a mad man to some bollywood techno! he is amazing. him and zanda. they both remind me of Albert from hitch and i mean that in the best way. that is a compliment coming from me! i love that guy and that movie! IM A VAULT BABY LOCKED DOWN!!!! i miss jace. good think i have a skype date with her tomorrow at 4. well noon my time! cant wait!

so pictures from bollywood:








it was good times! so just a heads up thanks for all your prayers i have all my outreach fees paid for and we leave for outreach in one week and like one hour, but who is counting. oh yeah me!!! i cant wait. well I'm about to watch a movie with Adam so until tomorrow!

love from me in nz

two weekssssss.

so yeah two weeks until outreach!!! we just had a meeting and got our packing list for the three weeks we will be there. i have to purchase a few things tomorrow and then i will be ready. well besides the 400 dollars i have left to pay for flights...well actually 700 dollars but we have raised enough money that everyone who still needed money will receive 300 dollars towards their debt. so here is pretty much what we know so far about our outreach.

we will be traveling pretty much all day to get there. we will have a lay over in Australia for three hours and hopefully we can get kangaroo pizza because that was a rumor that we heard. how sweet would that be. im not sure if that it true because i would think that kangaroos would be a protected species there. but you have to admit it looks good!


so today was out first day of our drama week. out team learned one drama today. it is called the conflict. it is pretty much the whole gospel. the main points are creation, the fall of man, Jesus dying on the cross and him rising. here is the best part i play satin! we have to practice it because it is a 15 minutes drama and it is a mime. it was a lot to digest in two hours. i cant wait to see what we learn then next three days because on Friday we sail to the great barrier island!! pray for good weather because the weather has been crap. like mangere crap weather!!! yeah so that is pretty much it for me. more tomorrow!

love from me in nz

so tired.

what a day. we had our big fundraising day. we had a car wash and two sausage sizzles. over all we made around 1,000 dollars!!! worked so hard but it was totally worth it, and it wasn't like i didn't have fun. i had heaps. i got to chill with the mates all day. got home took a shower, watched the Italian job and Horton hears a who. yeah odd combination i know. so tomorrow all we have is the bake sale and i might go see a movie with my adopted brother. i don't really have anything else to say.

oh yeah i bought none of your frizznizz shampoo and when ever i smell my hair i think of home and all my lovely friends who use it!! cant wait to see you all. i cant wait for next week. drama week!! then orama. hope i have more to report tomorrow.

im sad im missing fall.





love from me in nz

best week ever.

it truly was. i am sad to say that my speakers are leaving tomorrow and i am actually sad that they are leaving tomorrow. i have learned so much about my calling on my life and also about other peoples calling. it was so amazing to listen to the stories. dave showed us so many amazing videos. like this one




it has amazing symbolism. just think of jesus as the blonde boy and he is traveling to get is followers. i almost cried when i first watched it. he was such a inspiration. i know now that in my lifetime i AM going to Uganda someday. along with other nations that i have on my list but Uganda is the main one! if you want to come with my you can! i am thinking about going right after i graduate college. oh college i am kinda dreading it now because i just want to go into countries who need help but i know that if i am educated i will have more to offer them.

so yesterday i watched veggie tales and mighty python and the holy grail. i haven't watched that movie completely and i watched it with heather. spamelot was wayyyyyyy better. and today the KOREANS CAME! i love those kids. they showed us dramas and dances. they did the lifehouse drama. i freaking love it and i have seen it so many time but i still almost cry. im a sap.

tomorrow we are working to the bone to raise all our outreach money. we have on yeah....one week to raise the rest of the money.... ah. we are having a sausage sizzle, car wash and a bake sale!!! so please pray for us!!!!

love from me in nz

been awhile.

yeah my bad. i don't know why i haven't been writing. laziness i guess. well i will just catch you up really fast. last weekend we had a party out at the cowies for Marine Reach's 18Th birthday. there house is amazing but the view is breath taking.




also on part of their land there is a waterfall ans swimming hole. it was freezing but it was totally the dive in. you cant really see me in the picture, i am in the back pretty much in the waterfall.



so that was amazing and on Saturday i watched a movie that changed my life, it is called once and the music is amazing. it was so beautiful and the story is so refreshing! you have to look it up. i think that eden alex and emma would appreciate it. i have all the music so when i come home you may steal it from me. im serious this movie changed my life. i watched in and i felt all the songs in my soul. i know that sounds lame but it is true, it really touched me. alot of the songs i can really relate to.

also we had two car washes and the one that i worked at we made 700 dollars!!! isn't that great. amazing. so keep praying a supporting us. we are trying things from car washes busking. oh busking is their name for street performing. speaking of busking me and my danish love anna and davs went today for an hour and made 17 dollars. yeah 17 dollars an hour, not to shabby. i love singing with her. i think that we sound perfect together. random statement. i guess i have really cool eyes. i have had many people comment on how amazing they are from guys to girls friends and family. i just don't see what the fuss is about. they look normal to me...that may be because they are the only eyes i see when i look into the mirror. let me know if all these people are odd....

we have a new speaker and he is talking about our calling. he has an amazing story on how god called him to go to Afghanistan for 5 years when he was only 18. ahhhh im 18! he is such an inspiration and his wife is adorable. they met there but she if from California. i cant wait to see if i can get my calling from god through this week. wouldn't that be sweet! omg we sail to the great barrier island in two weeks and outreach in three!!! and next week's study is drama. cant wait.

ps mom i saw the pictures of cinder she is the cutest thing ever. i still need to meet roe..well see her.

love from me in nz.

RIP lola.

yeah she is gone and i cant really explain what happened. i was not there. all i know is that i miss her.

sermonette!!

yeah i am giving my sermonette tomorrow. it is like a little sermon that each of the students have to do! i am really excited to give it!!! mine is on how god had healed my family. it shall be pretty intense! so yeah today was just preparing for it and watching the office!! me havs and heather rented the whole second season and now watch it all the time. well that and i watch the it crowd with Lauren when i can. seriously the funniest British show i have ever seen in my life! well that and black adder which i miss and vented to Eden about the other day.

don't really have anything else to say. just that i like the taste of socks in my mouth!!...that was Duncan!! silly Canada!

well I'm going to get off now because i think i may get up for breakfast tomorrow....i know not me! ha ha



love from me in nz.

new speaker!

her name is Caroline and she is teaching on the fear of the lord. she is an amazing woman of god and i cant wait to see all i will learn from her! she is kiwi and maybe one of the most adorable people i have ever met. she is from Christchurch NZ so she is living on the ship! today's lecture was so good and all us girls were jazzed because we have had men speakers for about a month now and i love to have role models. she [Caroline] is becoming one i believe. oh i just figured how to download songs of myspace so go me!! i know I'm slow and most of you all already know how it do it!

after lectures i gave blood!!!! yeah boy is New Zealand. it was amazing. the ladies working there were so cute and so nice. a total of 12 went and only 5 could actually give blood. some had been to places where they couldn't aka Hayley who is from the UK and i guess they think she has mad cow. some due to tattoos and piercings and others because of iron. but i did it! and in like 3 minutes too! me and my daddy are bleeders! yeah go O negative!!!! i didn't even pump the little basketball they gave me.


not only did i give blood but also i cut my hair!!! well my bangs... that is it a swear! i will never cut my hair until it is down to the middle of my back. well that is my goal anyway. what do you think?



well that was pretty much my day. well i did call my love Eden Kathleen Olsen and have a chit chat with her. i miss her so much! cant wait to see here again! also havs made breakfast for dinner. yeah pancakes! they are delicious any time of the day. i want to go fishing.

love from me in nz.

easy like sunday morning.

today was easy going but i loved it!! i got up and got ready for church. i went to BBC with my family today instead of mosaic. Claire and sally picked me up at 1030 and we headed to church.

after church we all went home to their house and had lunch with the family. jack didn't go to church because he was out late the last night at a party, he totally is me! i am the sleeping kid! i woke up at ten today and all my class mates were teasing me and were like what time is it shouldn't you be asleep for another 7 hours..... ha ha very funny guys, but so true.

after lunch Claire and sally left and me and jack just hung out. we talked about this and that. about the differences in the words we say school and food from new Zealand and the states. apparently they don't have squirrels in New Zealand. weird eh. we also played JANGA!!! "elbows up and side to side!!!!" good times BYOG!!! ps i won both games. after janga i listened to jack play the sax and tried to figure out a rubix cube!! it is totally impossible...lol but then jack did it in like two minutes. it is so funny all the people i meet here remind me of people back home. it helps with the whole homesick thing though. well i haven't met anyone that is like Eden...she is everything at once and is so like me. so in other words i haven't met someone just like me! i have met people with similar qualities and quirks such as snapping their fingers as they walk and randomly hiccup!

then at 5 jack dropped me off back at ship sweet ship in time for BBQ chicken and fruit salad! oh how delicious. i think that i shall spend the rest of my night finishing my journal and reading my love Jane Austin. i want to me a Mr. Darcy. he is amazing. i swear if i meet a guy with the last name Darcy i would seriously consider marrying him because of his last name...i a loser i know.

well i hope that you all had a great weekend!! Eden watch out i may call you tomorrow!!!



love from me in nz.

busy few days.

omg [oh my gosh, for dad!!!] this has been a crazy week!!! so much has happened! well shall we begin. Wednesday was really nothing to say...normal day in lectures and after, but Thursday is when the real party started....literally. Thursday was Kristin's 19th birthday!!!!

well it was a normal morning...well besides the fact that i got up at 430 am and climbed a mount!! i know me. i am the one in the class that sleeps till 825 when we have class at 830. what can i say i am amazing, i have had so much practice doing this because of mainstreet [as witt dawg]. ahhhh mainstreet. so yeah got up at climbed this


i know that it doesn't look that big but it is quiet a trek! but it was totally worth with because when you get to the top it is beautiful. i mean it was beautiful on the way up too




but the very top was the most amazing thing i have seen since i have been here. and most likely the top ten greatest sights i have ever seen in my whole life.






once we reached the top we had breakfast...so aka we are the breakfast club! yeah boy. such a good movie!!! so we walked down and went to lectures. so tired and almost fell sleep. morning tea was cupcakes though! i love cupcakes. lectures finally ended and free time!!!! yeah boy! so we decided to go out to dinner. the birthday girl chose Turkish. so we went to Turkish to go and had kebabs!



the whole time i was eating it i had flight of the conchords stuck in my head...the most beautiful girl in the room. look it up if you don't know it. it is totally worth a listen. dinner was finished so we walked back to the ship for small groups. out small group was joined with another and we all ate chocolate fondue and watched veggie tales. half of the girls have never seen it, like any of them. i guess the veggie ministry does not spread child evangelism to Europe. Kristin had seen it when she lived in Sudan. she loves them and had never seen the veggie movie Jonah. so we watched it! she loved it!! i mean her face..here is a visual



finally after watching the veggies, we went to bed. friday was a normal lecture day but in the afternoon we had wedding rehearsal. me anna and skyler sang in jeremey and lori's wedding. we sang great is thy faithfulness. it was such a blessing to them and it was fun too! so we had the rehearsal and then we all went to Zeytin's. this amazing greek/turkish resterant. they had amazing bread and dips and i had lamb. lamb is so good i am so happy that i am having it where there is more sheep than people. yeah that is a true fact for NZ.

saturday!! the big day. we had to come early and practice one more time. the wedding happened and it was so gorgeous. everything was amazing and the song was a great hit. it was so cute to see jeremy and lori holding each other close as we all sang their favorite hyme. they closed their eyes and sang with all their might. it was so lovely.

wedding kiss <3


after ceremony.




overall it has been a great day, and weekend. tomorrow is sunday and i hope i can chill with my family!! i love and miss you all and hope you enjoyed my pictures. i have to clean my noodle time dishes now and go to bed.

love from me in nz.