First day at Holmsted!!

I'm here!! What the heck, how did this even happen?!
God is so crazy. =)
Most of the students are here now, all aside from 2 I believe. There are 23 of us in total, 18 girls and 5 boys. Wow. Intense. Especially since there are mostly male staff. This should be exciting :-)

The rooms have triple bunk beds, how cool is that? I got the middle, thankfully.
We have our first meeting tonight!! Wow, I can't believe this is genuinely happening!!
There are a lot of Americans on this school.

The Manor is SO stunning!! I can't even believe how gorgeous some of the rooms are. It's fantastic.

And the grounds are beauuutiful. So green!! So many trees!! I haven't had much of a chance to explore outside yet, but I am quite sure I will be spending a lot of my free time out there.

My Beautiful Week

Bonjour!

This week has been epically fantastic, if not tremendously exhausting.
I went to a Wildfire (part of Kings Kids) weekend up in Cornwall with my parents and some of my friends from the Lodge. There were about 70 of us there, the girls sleeping inside and the boys outside in tents.
It's always fun having only one shower for 70 people.

I actually can't even believe how amazingly stunning Cornwall is. The rolling hills and endless forests constantly took my breath away. In a town we went to several times, Looe, there is this little confined walking path, that is like a little splinter of heaven. The walls of it were earth, covered in every kind of green and living thing native to England. There were masses of ferns and ivy; mosses and little flowers were creeping up it in their search to find the sun... The sky was hidden by the boughs of trees that protected it from unwanted eyes.
In short, I was thunderstruck by the sheer beauty of the land that surrounded me.
The midlands where I live, are practically planes. The ground is so utterly horizontal that from our flat you can see the town a mile away.
I've been feeling so deprived of any sort of natural elevation, I've been longing for just a glimpse of a cloud reaching-peak or a grassy hillside... And, as I have said, my wishes were fulfilled this weekend :-)

But yes, the camp. It was a really good time to come together with youth from around the UK, make new friends, worship God and do some outreach in the local area. I definitely needed some time to get away from the routine here at the lodge to re-connect with God and get closer to my friends.
I've recently found out that I actually can't function right unless I have close friends, that I know won't leave me anytime soon. I was starting to fall apart at the seams when all of my friends were on DTS, and left we within two months of becoming my friend. I actually cannot handle losing people I love so often.
I need to write a full blog about my friends here, and bit of a transition I am going through in my mind right now, that will seriously effect my thoughts on my entire life.
But at the moment I need to do other things... So adieu :-) Have the loveliest day you have ever had in your entire life.

Abigail

MY Nature. I claim it.

The snow chilled raindrops caress my sun-forsaken face, the feathery grass bows under my feet as subjects to a king. The frigid sun-rays sing to my spirit in the sonorous tones of autumn. Tree bows smother me with my adoration as I lay beneath them in my victorious freedom. Here in my aloneness, I am surrounded by my loves. The red-gold earth, seen only when looked for through her veil of green, the branches of a willow; a Celtic knot of deepest tones on an easel of cerulean sky. My Nature rules the earth in unadulterated glory, unchanging and unrelenting.