Life update.

Because I've been inspired by Caroline.

Here are some things I have been up to lately.

Firstly and most significantly, I still don't have a job. Truthfully, I haven't been trying all that hard but secondly, opportunities seem very limited. I've been to Parramatta, downtown Fairfield, applied to office and even cafe jobs in the city and nothing. God clearly has something else for me.

In the meantime, I have been doing domestic things and spending time with my family and actually serving them. I realised that I haven't been home to spend time with my family really since the end of high school. Being home three nights in a row to cook dinner has been weird but obviously it has been nice to actually be around to be a daughter. Normally I'd be home late from uni or whatever, if I got to have dinner with my family that was a once a week occurrence. Anyway. It's nice.

I visited uni this week because I wanted to catch the UNSW presentation of the Global Poverty Project. I was excited to see some Oaktree friends, but disappointed that Hugh Evans didn't actually present. Simon is awesome but I've already met him! I bet Hugh will be at USyd. Grrr. The presentation was inspiring, but having done development studies myself it was quite idealistic. I guess it served its purpose though.

I spent most of my time on campus catching up with people which was nice but strangely, I kind of removed myself from the mission events. I guess I couldn't do two things at once but anyway.

I've started visiting youth group this term because I'll finally, finally be a leader come term 4. I'm really excited about this. I'm still taking the lunchtime group at my old high school on Fridays with Kate and some new kids are coming along which has been very encouraging. We're reading through Acts. 6UP on Sunday is also still a lot of fun and I really love getting to know better the girls who I will be leading at youth group.

Pete's on long service leave ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

And one of my most favourite people in the world has been accepted by CMS and will be going to St Andrews Hall next year. Barely anyone reads this anyway so I'm going to announced to nobody in particular that this person is Kate.

I don't like my new cookbook. Too many obscure ingredients...

I'm currently reading God's Politics by Jim Wallis which is quite interesting and addresses the fact that the Republicans and Democrats totally get it wrong when it comes to issues of church and state and although it focuses on American politics it has given me something to think about when I go to vote as a Christian. I'll blog about it later because it's been helpful. I saw Jim Wallis speak at USyd last year but I don't think I took very much away from it. I guess that's my latest 'research project', as it were. I didn't get very far with bioethics. All I found was an article in a copy of Kategoria. But I'll keep an eye out.

And this has been another boring life update :)