I have arrived

I have arrived.
I arrived on the Sunshine Coast YWAM base two weeks ago today to be a part of the staff team for the July DTS starting on Monday. Now most of you know this information, but none of the actual details. Please let me inform you...
We finished our staff training the first week I was here. It was nice to be able to connect with the staff team and learn more about the details of the base itself. There are two leaders for the school, and six staff members working directly with the students. Of course there are more staff involved with the base itself, making it about 30plus staff members in total.
Moving on... we spent the last week actually preparing for the students. This involved cleaning and fixing up the houses, and furnishing them. Honestly, the place is looking more and more like a home away from home and I love it! We of course have been praying over the students before they come and studying their profiles so that we can pray for them in specifics and learn their names. Another task necessary for me to complete is learning to drive an 11 passenger standard van on the opposite side of the road.
It's still pending, but it looks as though we are going to have 14 students in total for this school. There are six boys and eight girls. Today our second student arrived and the rest of them will arrive in the next couple of days. They are coming from all over the world from places such as England, Switzerland, Germany, New Zealand, and The States.
We wanted all the outreach locations confirmed before the students arrived and so there are going to be three outreach locations. One soccer-based outreach headed to Uganda and Kenya (this is the one I am helping lead with another girl from Aldergrove), one surf-based outreach going to Indonesia, and a regular outreach headed to Vanuatu. I know I am not supposed to be excited about going to Africa before even the school starts, but I cannot wait to go.
It's all going to happen so fast here and I am super pumped for it all to start. Life is about to get crazy as it all begins, but I am totally ready because I know this is exactly where I am supposed to be.