About Me

My life is not my own, for I belong to Christ.

It is because of God's grace and for His glory that I "live and move and have my being."

I am currently back in Indiana, studying English Education at Purdue University, far from the home I've come to know and love in Victoria, Australia

My family means the world to me.

Living in America and loving in Australia, I am blessed indeed. Complete Profile

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Tuesday, June 27, 2006

I know you've all been waiting for this moment...

SO HERE IT IS!

Look at pictures to your heart's content. Someday I'll be back with a real post.

Charity | 6:16 pm

Monday, June 19, 2006

Monday I've got Friday on my mind

Welp, The Guys are in Geelong until Friday, and 6/8 of the Blackwood family has stopped to catch our breath. Each day last week and the end of the week before seemed to last so long through the duration of the day. Though looking back, everything kind of seems a blur. We had an excellent, jam packed week. It was kind of like taking a small step out of reality. There was a good combination of work and productivity and just plain ol' fun. And starting Friday, the fun begins once again.

Thursday through Monday was spent at Dixon's Creek. Youth Camp officially started Friday night and ended Monday afternoon. With Jono Feldman, Jono Blackston, Josh McEwen, Jane Blackston, and the Fishers as leaders, we couldn't help but have an amazing time. The talks were really encouraging and challenging. I especially enjoyed Josh's talk about "smelling like Christ." (Check out 2 Corinthians 2:14-16 and Ephesians 5:2) Ultimate Frisbee, Footy, and McEwen Ball were also definite highlights of the weekend. The last day, those who were born in the US got to go first in the lunch line. To show our appreciation for our birthplace, we Americans started singing, "I'm Proud to be an American". Hehe, it was fabulous! I think there were actually more Americans present than Australians at Dikko. The camp ended with Matthew Pluke starting a mud fight. I wish I had pictures to show my ENTIRE HEAD covered in mud compliments of Plukie himself. (Arrrgh! What did I do!?!) Allen managed to get mud in Christie's mouth, as well. Let's just say those boys better keep watching their backs...

From there we went to our home and then took the girls to their host family's homes. The Boys stayed with us. Luke Denny arrived on Tuesday and we went knocking on doors in McKinnon that day and the next. Thursday the Team didn't do all that much... they had a chance to relax a bit and start planning the Kids Club (like VBS). Friday was more door knocking, this time in Frankston. It was kind of a disheartening couple of hours as we only got 1 or 2 positive responses. But who knows what God will use, right?

Friday night was a really fun experience as we got to go to a footy game! The Alelheid Crows (listen to their theme song! ;-))CRUSHED the St. Kilda Saints. Most of us were barracking (rooting) for the Saints, but it was still amazing just to be there for the atmostphere and such. Oh and the city is SO beautiful at night!!!

Saturday we went to Aurthurs Seat - the place we went with the McKeemans a couple months ago - and had lunch. The chair lift wasn't in service, but some of us had fun sitting in the seats anyway. After lunch, we went to the Back Beach where all us Americans immediately ran down to the shore, took off our shoes, rolled up our pant legs, and started running along the beach. The Aussies just stood there and laugh at us crazy folk. Good times. :-) The took the ferry across the bay to Geelong Saturday afternoon and the rest of us drove home to resume our semi-normal lifestyle.

Song of the post ~ "Everybody's Changing" by Keane

Charity | 12:34 pm

Tuesday, June 13, 2006

Can I just say.....

Life is EXCELLENT!!??

Well I just did. :-D

My brothers are finally here with us! I cried when I saw them at the airport. Happy tears, of course.

Youth Camp at Dikko was GROUSE!!!!!!!!!! (aka great) I loooooved it. The Missions Team is unbelievable! I love them all soo much! Luke got here this morning after being detained by kidney stones. We went knocking on doors and it was a really good experience - for me at least. I haven't done it since I was like 6, walking from door to door with my daddy. I did it with Dad again today, but this time I actually did some of the talking.

GOD IS SO GOOD!

I wish I could ramble on and on and on about the great things we learned and did at Youth Camp (pictures come later - it's SO great having Zachary here to capture all these hundreds of moments!!!) and describe our trip to the airport on the 8th in great detail, but I really need to go do other things. Such as... go to Bible study. That's always a positive thing to do, right? ;-)

I AM SO HAPPY!

Song of the post ~ "Brothers and Sisters" by Coldplay

Charity | 6:08 pm

Thursday, June 01, 2006

Woah, baby, it's COLD outside!

And cold it shall remain. Today is the first day of WINTER.

How weird is that!?

I've been drinking cup after cup of coffee in attempts to stay warm. (I have the instant coffee making down to an art. Come over and see for youself! ;-)) No wonder Aussies drink cuppas all the time!!!

I've decided I like lists. Here's another one.



Things I am really, really, really looking forward to:

• The Guys arriving (one week from today! yessss!)
• Youth Camp (We go to Dikko [Dixon's Creek] immediately after the Team arrives)
• Hanging out with The Guys (and especially The Boys!)
• Finishing Algebra (okay, thinking future here)
• Getting my drivers license (woah, thinking REALLY futuristicly!)
• Driving to the snow and skiing/sledding (probably in August)

Okay, I had more in my head earlier, but apparently I forgot them. Argh! Don't you hate it when something really exciting is about to happen, but you still have to wait for a little bit? I can hardly sit still! This weekend will help time to go more quickly. We're going to Geelong and spending the night with the Mickelsons on Friday, and then (Em)Ily and (M)Egg are coming to spend Saturday and Sunday with us. :-D


Yesterday we girls re-arranged our room. What can I say? We're women (who happen to be related to our mother and grandmother). It's soo cool and roomy (sort of)! We'll take some pictures, 'kay?


Here's something Australian I've grown to love (or at least tolerate):

The Happy Little Vegemite Song
We are happy little Vegemites as bright as bright can be,
We all enjoy our Vegemite for breakfast, lunch and tea,
Our mummy says we're growing stronger every single week,
Because we love our Vegemite,
We all adore our Vegemite,
It puts a rose in every cheek!
...We're growing stronger every week!

Check out www.vegemite.com! :-)

Song of the post ~ "The Happy Little Vegemite Song"
ISN'T THAT THE MOST ADORABLE THING EVER!?!? [Refresh the page to hear it again, or scroll down click the "play" button]

Charity | 4:40 pm