friends & family? They are all at Malaysia.
Yupz, new life starts now!
The first night when family left... no need me to say a thing, but you guys who know me well might have guessed that I'll be crying there. The atmosphere was not that bad, and I was just tearing. Didn't get to cry much because of the 3 Cheng Brothers giggling there at the sight of me crying. Anyways, nothing bad, they sort of help me control myself. Guess guys & girls are really from a different planet, hehe... After that, Peter koko sent James; Paul koko & Julia jeje sent me home. On the way back, both of them kept giving me useful words of encouragements. Even got bear hugs from them too! They are one of the biggest blessings god had for me in Australia.. ^_^
Next day (22 feb, Thursday), went to school for last day of ori, where they separate all students into different faculty. Was in desperate situation of course! Don't know anyone! Well, in times like these, you would practically talk to anyone who's around you which have a nice& friendly face. Cut it short, We had free lunch (subway) after the briefing of ori. While eating, we sort of like formed a group and start talking about normal stuff. God is so awesome! I get to meet 2 girls that goes to Clayton church of Christ (Paul koko's family church). One of the girls even offers to give me a lift to FOCUS (Fellowship of Christians Uni Students), which is on Friday; The other girl, asked me to go over her house and have dinner with her family. She pitied me, knowing that my family just went back yesterday. ^_^
Basically, that is how I spent my first day in Australia. When I got back, it was quite late, was tired, so slept straight away.
Sunday (25 Feb), went to my first service in Australia. Paul koko, Julia jeje & Emily girl girl ^^ picked me up from my place! So happy to see familiar faces again! The procedures of the service is very different compare to Mega & need to get use to it: Besides the pastor is a "kuai lou" (miss pastor HO!!), they had holy communion every week i guess.
After church, there is a Clayton festival. A lot of people from church joined in the crowd. I never been to a festival before, so it's actually kind of a good experience. Paul koko they all are staying for the festival, so I joined in too, but I followed the youth around.
Now to describe the festive. A certain long road in Clayton is closed for the festive. A lot of food stalls, game stalls, drinks etc all are placed along both side of the road. At the end of each side of the road has a stage. Announcements are made there, there are also singing & dancing performances too. The church youth participated in the performance with a group of people doing break dancing. There are a lot of amusing games, one of it is the jumping castle (basically, u just get into the big air balloon castle with a group of people and start jumping inside bumping each other).
At night, had dinner at Julia jeje's parents' (Uncle Arthur& Auntie Anne) house. HOME COOK FOOD!!! T_T
We had mi rebus!! I never love mi rebus much back in Malaysia, because the gravy is all watery. But!! Auntie Anne's mee rebus was really awesome!! Yum yum.... I'm always surrounded by good cooks, e.g my mom& Aunt Liz. Here, there's aunt Anne! So lucky... ^_^
How's 1st week of school? Met a lot of people. New faces in every tutorials & lectures. Don't really get to mix with Malaysian, mostly with Aussie people, people from Hong Kong & China. I got BIG exposure! People from these 3 places, all had different slang. And I get to play around with the slang, it just comes naturally. While speaking chinese with China people, out of nowhere, you'll follow their slang, same goes to people from Hong Kong speaking cantonese, but australia slang, bit hard to pick up, hehe.... but soon, I will! Yeah, it's really fun to play around with it.
Had joined FOCUS for 2 weeks by now. About Focus... There are mostly chinese people that are born in Australia, quite a number of their motherland is from Malaysia too. So, they have a mixture of culture. I'm one of the YOUNGEST there!! My gosh, back in Malaysia, everyone is like calling me big sister! Here?!?! Like baby only.... But yeah, another BIG exposure. Actually, Focus based more on uni students that is an Australian. And I'm supposed to be in the IS (international students) Zone, but I can choose to be wherever I want. But!! I'm sort of stuck in Focus, because there's this really nice girl name Mandice, she was like so sad when I say I might want to tryout IS. Hehe...
Anyhow, I do had thoughts to tryout in everywhere& honestly I do have negative thoughts on that group. But, during one of my devotion time with God, I read my daily bread, and it said:-
Is your local church plagued by problems?
Feel like running away to a church that appears to have less problems?
Then wait. Perhaps this is the word you need to remind yourself that there can be no growth without pain.
Haha... so that is one of my testimony. And I'm very sure that god is asking me to settle down here... ^_^
That is what I felt on the first week I been to Focus.
Back in Malaysia(again), I'm always surrounded with people I know. You'll feel belonged &feel excited to go for fellowship & gathering with everyone. Here, don't know anyone much, it's kind of difficult for you to feel excited to go for gatherings. So, on the second week before I went to Focus, I prayed to God, asking Him to give me excitement & sense of belonging. And guess what?
Hoho... God really did his work!! I had a different perception on Focus now. He opened my eyes once again. I found out that I really need to work on humbleness & also found out that there are so many good qualities in the people in Focus that I can learn from in terms of spiritual maturity& how they live their life. I'm no longer the oldest, temporarily need to stop giving but receive all that I can. Sense of belonging? I had it already.. ^_^ I know it's unavoidable that sometimes I might feel left out but I really hope I'll grow to like this new family more. (hope you guys will help pray about it)
Yesterday night, Ester gave me a ride home from FOCUS. She's a medical student, doing her fifth year. We enjoyed our talks so much, that we purposely took a ride down to Glen Waverly to continue our talks. Her parents had divorced only last 2 weeks. She shared on her experience how she faced it and all. Amazed on how she handle it.
Mmm... that's about it I guess. Hope I have not put you all into sleep.
But yeah, I believe god will continue to equip me in Australia. And I still believe that I'll do great things here with God at side. So... you guys back there better stand up & move on, don't lag! I'm definite that when I come back this year, you'll be able to see a new Brigette and I would love to see a new you too... ^_^
p.s try to post some testimonies. and I haven't receive much updates from you guys in blogs. If this continues, i'm paying back k?
Yupz, new life starts now!
The first night when family left... no need me to say a thing, but you guys who know me well might have guessed that I'll be crying there. The atmosphere was not that bad, and I was just tearing. Didn't get to cry much because of the 3 Cheng Brothers giggling there at the sight of me crying. Anyways, nothing bad, they sort of help me control myself. Guess guys & girls are really from a different planet, hehe... After that, Peter koko sent James; Paul koko & Julia jeje sent me home. On the way back, both of them kept giving me useful words of encouragements. Even got bear hugs from them too! They are one of the biggest blessings god had for me in Australia.. ^_^
Next day (22 feb, Thursday), went to school for last day of ori, where they separate all students into different faculty. Was in desperate situation of course! Don't know anyone! Well, in times like these, you would practically talk to anyone who's around you which have a nice& friendly face. Cut it short, We had free lunch (subway) after the briefing of ori. While eating, we sort of like formed a group and start talking about normal stuff. God is so awesome! I get to meet 2 girls that goes to Clayton church of Christ (Paul koko's family church). One of the girls even offers to give me a lift to FOCUS (Fellowship of Christians Uni Students), which is on Friday; The other girl, asked me to go over her house and have dinner with her family. She pitied me, knowing that my family just went back yesterday. ^_^
Basically, that is how I spent my first day in Australia. When I got back, it was quite late, was tired, so slept straight away.
Sunday (25 Feb), went to my first service in Australia. Paul koko, Julia jeje & Emily girl girl ^^ picked me up from my place! So happy to see familiar faces again! The procedures of the service is very different compare to Mega & need to get use to it: Besides the pastor is a "kuai lou" (miss pastor HO!!), they had holy communion every week i guess.
After church, there is a Clayton festival. A lot of people from church joined in the crowd. I never been to a festival before, so it's actually kind of a good experience. Paul koko they all are staying for the festival, so I joined in too, but I followed the youth around.
Now to describe the festive. A certain long road in Clayton is closed for the festive. A lot of food stalls, game stalls, drinks etc all are placed along both side of the road. At the end of each side of the road has a stage. Announcements are made there, there are also singing & dancing performances too. The church youth participated in the performance with a group of people doing break dancing. There are a lot of amusing games, one of it is the jumping castle (basically, u just get into the big air balloon castle with a group of people and start jumping inside bumping each other).
At night, had dinner at Julia jeje's parents' (Uncle Arthur& Auntie Anne) house. HOME COOK FOOD!!! T_T
We had mi rebus!! I never love mi rebus much back in Malaysia, because the gravy is all watery. But!! Auntie Anne's mee rebus was really awesome!! Yum yum.... I'm always surrounded by good cooks, e.g my mom& Aunt Liz. Here, there's aunt Anne! So lucky... ^_^
How's 1st week of school? Met a lot of people. New faces in every tutorials & lectures. Don't really get to mix with Malaysian, mostly with Aussie people, people from Hong Kong & China. I got BIG exposure! People from these 3 places, all had different slang. And I get to play around with the slang, it just comes naturally. While speaking chinese with China people, out of nowhere, you'll follow their slang, same goes to people from Hong Kong speaking cantonese, but australia slang, bit hard to pick up, hehe.... but soon, I will! Yeah, it's really fun to play around with it.
Had joined FOCUS for 2 weeks by now. About Focus... There are mostly chinese people that are born in Australia, quite a number of their motherland is from Malaysia too. So, they have a mixture of culture. I'm one of the YOUNGEST there!! My gosh, back in Malaysia, everyone is like calling me big sister! Here?!?! Like baby only.... But yeah, another BIG exposure. Actually, Focus based more on uni students that is an Australian. And I'm supposed to be in the IS (international students) Zone, but I can choose to be wherever I want. But!! I'm sort of stuck in Focus, because there's this really nice girl name Mandice, she was like so sad when I say I might want to tryout IS. Hehe...
Anyhow, I do had thoughts to tryout in everywhere& honestly I do have negative thoughts on that group. But, during one of my devotion time with God, I read my daily bread, and it said:-
Is your local church plagued by problems?
Feel like running away to a church that appears to have less problems?
Then wait. Perhaps this is the word you need to remind yourself that there can be no growth without pain.
Haha... so that is one of my testimony. And I'm very sure that god is asking me to settle down here... ^_^
That is what I felt on the first week I been to Focus.
Back in Malaysia(again), I'm always surrounded with people I know. You'll feel belonged &feel excited to go for fellowship & gathering with everyone. Here, don't know anyone much, it's kind of difficult for you to feel excited to go for gatherings. So, on the second week before I went to Focus, I prayed to God, asking Him to give me excitement & sense of belonging. And guess what?
Hoho... God really did his work!! I had a different perception on Focus now. He opened my eyes once again. I found out that I really need to work on humbleness & also found out that there are so many good qualities in the people in Focus that I can learn from in terms of spiritual maturity& how they live their life. I'm no longer the oldest, temporarily need to stop giving but receive all that I can. Sense of belonging? I had it already.. ^_^ I know it's unavoidable that sometimes I might feel left out but I really hope I'll grow to like this new family more. (hope you guys will help pray about it)
Yesterday night, Ester gave me a ride home from FOCUS. She's a medical student, doing her fifth year. We enjoyed our talks so much, that we purposely took a ride down to Glen Waverly to continue our talks. Her parents had divorced only last 2 weeks. She shared on her experience how she faced it and all. Amazed on how she handle it.
Mmm... that's about it I guess. Hope I have not put you all into sleep.
But yeah, I believe god will continue to equip me in Australia. And I still believe that I'll do great things here with God at side. So... you guys back there better stand up & move on, don't lag! I'm definite that when I come back this year, you'll be able to see a new Brigette and I would love to see a new you too... ^_^
p.s try to post some testimonies. and I haven't receive much updates from you guys in blogs. If this continues, i'm paying back k?
The one who still keep you guys in prayer,
Brigette
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