Home Sweet Hawaii

After the basket fulls of tears were shed, hours of riding on airplanes, crossing almost 4,000 miles, I have finally arrived in HAWAII.

I flew out Thursday morning around 11 am from GR to Chicago. From there I flew 4 and a half hours to L.A. and then another 5 and a half hours to Kona, HI. I landed here around 7:30ish HI time....which is 6 hours behind MI time. The time difference is kinda driving me bonkers. lol. I've been super tired all day long. It's almost 9 here...but almost 3 am back home. I'm prolly going to go to bed soon. lol

My room is quite lovely. lol. There are 8 girls in here. 2 are 17, 3 are 18, 2 are 19, and one 20 year old. There are four bunk beds...and of course I somehow got stuck up on the top bunk. lol. This will be an interesting 3 months. lol. We have a small bathroom with a shower and toliet, a kitchen sink, microwave, and a small fridge.

I got up early this morning 'cause I kept waking up and just lying in my bed. 5 am here is 11 am at home. So...I kinda slept in. lol. After breakfast we had orientation and a greeting from the native Hawaiian people. After all the orientation jazz finished, we had lunch...and then more orientation stuff. lol. I'm not a big fan of all this prep stuff. I'm so ready to just dive into what God wants me to learn.

My DTS school is focused around Community Transformation. About 80 people in this program...prolly 30 guys/50 girls. We had an incredible afternoon just worshiping God together and listening to Him. It was amazing.

After our lovely dinner...which I did try some sweet potatoes and coconut (good) and coconut buns (not so good)...we had a hula. It was so beautiful watching the native people show us how they worshiped God thru their culture. We then had a crazy time of worshiping God thru other songs in English. It was so amazing. God is so good.

I'm super excited to see what will tomorrow and the rest of this weekend will bring. I think I'm getting up early to run so I have to crash now in bed. Jet lag is not so much fun.

If you want to write me, my address is:

Julianne Lanning
University of the Nations
75-5851 Kuakini Hwy. #432
Kailua-Kona, HI 96740 USA