Safe & Sound

⁹ Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.” Joshua 1:9

⁶ Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. Philippians 4:6

 After giving (& receiving -_- lol) my parents a million waves until I couldn't see them anymore, I was off to board my flight! It really started to hit me as I was seeing my parents get smaller and smaller and I felt tears coming. At that moment, both Mina and Gary sent me these verses ^ and soon after it calmed my heart and I knew it God was telling me that He would take care of me and protect me and everything/one else so I didn't need to be upset.

Seriously, everything went soso smoothly from start to finish! Got to the airport on time, flight was on time, met a girl named Ashley (from my program) right before boarding, flight was only 9 hrs and 50 minutes compared to 10 hours and 30 minutes (actually made a huge difference), watched Hunger Games and Five Year Engagement on the flight, walked out and Ashley was waiting for me to get our bags together :'), thought I would have to wait a few hours for my taxi driver to come but he was already there by the gate with my name out and helped me with my bags, got dropped off at the ACCENT Office and right away met a girl named Lexie..we both had a hard time finding our actual dorms, but together we got there safe and sound. Got my keys to my room and realized I was only assigned one roommate, which was weird because I had signed up for a triple because it was cheaper, but it turns out we have a triple bedroom to ourselves =  an extra bed for visitors!! :').

In our flat we have 2 rooms (5 girls) and 3 bathrooms! I live in the basement level so it was a pain carrying my bags down, BUT it's always better than carrying it up so phew! + we found out we get FREE laundry (which is a few doors down from my room) + a FREE oyster card (subway) with an UNLIMITED amount of spending money (that..makes sense right?) basically we get to travel in London for free!

How does God always provide like this?! :')

paid for a triple, but got a double! extra bed on the left ;)

can't wait to crawl into bed tonight :'_

Throughout the day I was always with at least one person and I'm so thankful because I would've been so lost on my own. I haven't felt homesick yeeet, but did feel bummed when I started recognizing some of the streets when I came earlier this year to visit Gary :( loll. After a quick tour around Bloomsbury, few of the girls and I went to get some groceries and we all came out super sad and hungry. So expensive, but it's okay..I will lose weight from this experience...lol

Finally, in my room with wifi working on both my laptop and phone. The girls on my floor decided to go out and explore a little bit and I decided to decline and stay in tonight. They probably think I'm boring already (which...is okay lol), but I promised myself it was just for tonight. :)

To be continued..:)