Quick updates before Samoa!

Hey guys :) Sorry I didn't get on things are crazy! and no laptop=difficulties
However when I get back from Samoa you will get a wonderfully awesome update! pray for my safety and health!
So some quick updates about what has been going on.
After our homestays we had Marine Ecology, we did a lot of lecture time (not my favorite, but applicational) and lost of field work which was a ton of fun, I was with Alex, Sarah and Angelica and we laughed a lot :) We searched around for creatures and then found out their name and observed them, it was more fun than that may sound :P That week was alright, not my fav but i did good in the class, A- so that is half of my Science lab grade for school and it will be continued with Terrestrial Ecology.
The weekend after Marine Ecology, which i was i think the....20th? (Saturday) Alyssa, Morgan, Angelica and I went with Lisa Bond for the day! It was great, we went to Blenheim and Picton to see this beautiful waterfall, ridiculous scenery, shop at a "Warehouse" which is like Kmart, and Alyssa got her Big Mac from Mickey D's. lol. That evenining some of us went to play squash, its kinda like raquetball, and it was so much fun! Angelica and I just laughed the whole time really lol. on the way home we stopped at a back road and just layed down to look at the stars...ommiggoodness it was definitly one of my favorite moments of the trip. It was BEAUTIFUL! I've never ever seen so many stars and we can see the milky way from here :) It was Ridiculous! :)
Church was also pretty choice eh. Pastor Brent is an awesome guy, he talked about how our worth is not based on our performance but on our identity in God. Then Lysa, Morgs and Kelsey and I went into town and uploaded pictures and i almost had a breakdown cuz i thought the computer ate all my pictures!!! But i was safe..almost broke down...lol.
Then this past week was reading week, we did a lot of....dun dun dun READING! well we were supposed to, i didn't do very well at that, i got distracted, or napped...or yea..lol. But i'll be bringing some reading to Samoa for the plane ride and the free time we have i guess. We did however have some fun group activities during the week. On Monday we played Soccer and that was quite fun :) We have to bike to the field and back so it was lots of excercise. Oh and during the game someone corner kicked it adn i did this sweet hip check and hit the ball into the goal :) It was pretty sweet. lol. Then we threw around the frisbee for a bit and that was so fun :) love frisbee.
Somethng that has been pretty awesome while I've been here is that i get to enjoy some of my favorite things being: coffee, icecream and frisbee. I know those are small little things but its sweet as that i get to have them. Oh and just so you all know, sweet as is a very common Kiwi phrase here, like choice eh, sweet as, knackered as, lots of different phrases and Kiwi lingo. lol.
Oh also this week i did some picture uploading in town so go to my facebook and enjoy those! Sorry i couldn't put them on here i didn't have time. And I also had lunch with Lisa Bond which was fun :) it was at her work, she works at Whale Watch. Then i went shoppin and went on a casual bike ride which was good relaxing me time before Samoa.
Last night we played "murder in the dark" which is a really fun game where you have cards, like in mafia and one or two people are the murderers, you turn off the lights and the people go around and you "kill them" and whoever dies lies on the ground and when someone finds them we yell murder in the dark and turn on the light to figure out who did it. it was a lot o ffun actually, we played like 3 rounds with all the staff and students :)
Then...PACKING...packing so stresses me out but i figured it all out last night and Lisa prayed with me and that really helped to destress me. Today we're just finishing up and packing out dinners for the plane and cleaning our rooms..etc. Please pray for me I'm nervous but a little bit excited.
Week one in Samoa will be group things like 'class' where we explore and learn new things and go to the market. The first day we actually go to the Market and we have to buy 'lava lava's which are like wraps and we have to wear them everyday for modesty reasons, even the guys. We will be at Safua hotel, but it isn't a hotel lol, we have been reassured lol. And then week two we go with our homestay families huts with one other student, i'm nervous about that week the most. But i'm sure it'll be fun.
Pray for my safety, my health and just that God will bless us all on our trip. We get back the 13th of March! Can you believe its almost March!!? wow...
so yea..backtracking but we leave at 4 NZ time, drive to the airport, fly to Auckland, fly to Samoa, spend time in Upolu? then take a ferry to Savaii where we will do homestays. Yup i think that's about it! I'll come back and expect emails and loving things sent to me lol. I can't check facebook at the convent so please email me if you are trying to chat or just get ahold of me, and depending on the time difference i can set up skype chat dates or call! calls aren't expensive so just let me know! love you all :) praying for you all too! <3