It's a New Dawn, It's a New Day

God truly loves me and is totally taking care of me. After I wrote my rather depressing and quite emotional blog, I came home only to find all of my housemates there, it was great. One of them is from Chicago, which is nice to live with one American, one is from Sweden, and the other France (and you all know how much I love France). Amandine (my French housemate), Ilda(my Swedish housemate) and I all went to the party together which is where I discovered how naive I am. Apparently a "party" is really a club, so I had my first club experience last night and it was very...interesting. Basically they play really loud music and everyone sits around and talks and drinks and then when they are a little buzzed they will dance. That is definitely not my scene so Amandine and I left the party and went home. We got home at around midnight so I just got ready for bed and then went to sleep. It took me a while to fall asleep but I finally did. I woke up thinking that it was seven in the morning only to discover it was only 2:30am. I was so upset, I was cold, my stomach was hurting so bed and I couldn't even sleep. I woke up and opened the door and my housemate Ilda was just coming back. She asked me if I was okay, she was worried that she woke me up, but I told her that she didn't and told her what was wrong. She was so sweet, she talked to me and calmed me down and got me a glass of water. After she left I decided to try my ipod as a sleeping remedy. I decided to listen to a KC boiler room podcost called "Lean on Him" by Adam Cox, it seemed quite fitting for my mood. It was really great and really encouraging, and reminded me that I was not alone and that God was taking care of me.I don't quite remember it all because I ended up falling asleep but it really calmed me down and allowed me to sleep through the night until 7:30 this morning, when I woke up to a podcast called "Transition" by Pete Greig which was...ironic.

This morning I woke up and took a shower, and got ready for our orientation at 9:00am it was nice to semi start a routine. During the orientation meeting I started to feel really sick so I went to the bathroom and ended up throwing up. I am not sure if it was because I ate a granola bar with wheat in it yesterday or if it was because it was the only thing I had eaten in a day and half. Either way I felt a lot better after that, and was able to carry on for the rest of orientation. I met a few American girls today, one from Iowa named Elizabeth, one from Wisconsin named Bearnice and then I met up again with Kelsey. We all went out to lunch at a pub where I thankfully found something to eat without wheat in it (New York chicken) but I started feeling sick again so I couldn't eat it all. It was nice to talk to some Americans and I found out Kelsey and I were feeling the exact same way which was comforting. We walked around the town and found some shops I bought wheat free cereal and yogurt for £1.98! I am going to buy more groceries when we go on our city tour tomorrow.

I found a church down the road called Hull Community Church and Bearnice and I are going to go tomorrow morning together. She is involved in InterVarsity at her school in Wisconsin, which is such an answered prayer. I really wanted to find a Christian friend and I did, thank you Jesus!

Classes are suppose to start Monday but we have to sort out everything with our modules (classes) so I might not start my classes until next week, it all just depends.

I think that is everything for now, by the way all of my thoughts are in a British accent, it is rather funny!