Hillsong London

Probably the best week of my trip so far! So good in fact that I have already made a video for it which can be seen at the very bottom of this page, if you can't find it you can also see it here!
I arrived in London on Wednesday 8th Oct and dropped my gear at my sisters place before heading across for the first night of conference at the ExCeL center in west London. After 90minutes of train rides and route planning I managed to get there and worked out the quickest way in and back each day. First a train into Waterloo then onto the Jubliee Line to Canary Wharf to take the DLR across to the ExCeL center. First few days this worked out fine but on the final day of conference there were planned engineering works on 2 lines across the entire London Underground network..... just so happens that those 2 lines were the Jubliee line and the DLR!!!! So my journey soon turned into a 2.5hour trek underneath the streets of London working my way through the available train lines. Add that to the $5650 bill I received on the same day... happy happy joy joy!

Good news is that I got accepted into Hillsong International Leadership College (HILC) in Sydney for the July 2009 intake, where I will be studying TV & Media for at least 12months. I'm so excited about the course, no so excited about the bill lol. But back to the Conference... I was waking up at 7am and getting home at midnight so by the end of the week was EXAUSTED but we had some incredible speakers including Brian and Bobbie + Joseph Prince who spoke some encouraging, life giving and challenging messages. Tie that in with some incredible music from Hillsong, Mary Mary and Israel Houghton in addition to some sweet break dancing performances and some great people and you have a week that tops all others in my trip this year!

On Saturday night the conference finished and I went out for dinner with Danielle and had a steak "mmmm real food, no more of this tuna sandwich stuff that I was living on in Greece!" Got home and fell asleep pretty much immediately and didn't wake up till 11.30 the next morning. Sunday was a lazy day spent catching up on emails and making a few phone calls. Sunday night was like a dream come true..... Johnny is a master chef and just so happened to be cooking us dinner, a FABULOUS Sunday roast which melted in my mouth followed by an amazing desert... I'm still not sure I want to leave London after that!

But it's over now and now I have to head back to Andover to get ready to move house on the 17th. Hopefully we will have most of the stuff unpacked quickly and then the real fun begins as I have the job of knocking down the 'unwanted' walls in order to make way for renevations! But before that happens I'm back of to London with Dad on the 24th Oct for my 19th birthday. We are going to the Metro Ski and Snowboard show at Olympia for the day which will be ace! Then come saturday I have friends coming from all across the UK and international friends as well stretching as far as Italy woop woop! Should be an incredible weekend!

Until then... adios!