So I made it! I arrived at our base around three on Thursday. Met my room mates, unpacked, got lost a few times in the halls. All that good stuff. Everything is slowly getting easier day by day.
I now know where to throw out our trash bags. Although I still haven't found the storage room for more trash bags... but that will all come with time. :)
We have had a lot of orientation the first few days here and one of the things that we found out about was our "work duty" basically two hours a week Mon-Fri we have a job they assigned us to help out the base here. So as they were calling names and assigning jobs I was praying I wouldn't have to have the "cleaning duty" haha. I mean I was willing but wasn't excited about it.
SO they finally called my name and said I would be..................... the receptionist! Which is awesome. I will be answering phones and helping people at the front desk from 1:30-3:30 everyday. I'm very excited about my job! Ten hours a week isn't bad at all.
Saturday we toured Springs. We visited the "Garden of the God's" really really cool place! And then we walked around Springs town (?) I think is what they called it. lol Which was cool. We walked in and out of shops that were super unique and made you want to buy everything. BUT I resisted the urge. lol So we just chilled at a Coffee shop. After that we got to see the Airforce Base. Their chapel is gorgeous... and apparently they have the largest pipe organ there? so I heard. hah And then our last stop was the "US Olympic Training Center" which was pretty cool too. It was raining so I didn't go to the gym.. but in other news we did see a random fox running around outside that made me scream. And the people from Colorado were like "It's no biggie we see them all the time" sooo the fact I thought it was cool/scary apparently looked stupid to them. hah
Moving on...
today is Sunday and we visited "New Life Church" which is a LARGE, non-denominational church here in the springs. We chose to go there just because YWAM gave us a list of churches we may want to visit so we started with the one everyone had heard of... not for good reasons though. lol But they have a new pastor now. And honestly, I really didn't like it. Walking in I felt like I was going to a concert. The people were nice.. but it was just too big for me and I didn't connect with the pastor. SO we all pretty much decided to visit a new church next week.
Random facts you may get a kick out of:
1. I'm known as the "Georgia girl" and apparently I have a slight accent.
2. My room is known as the "really clean room that has good smelling candles"
3. The majority of the people here have iphones. lol
4. I found out I will be able to bring my laptop overseas and will have internet access.
5. The food is awesome here! :)
6. The girls and I are planning on visiting Focus on the Family soon!
Thanks for reading and supporting I will blog every few days!
-Grace
