Don't eat the Vegimite!

G'day!

This has been a whirlwind of a trip ever since I left the Gold Coast and hopped on the flight down here to Sydney for World Youth Day 2008! The energy has been amazing. I have WALKED EVERYWHERE... my feet are killing me...

Now I do not have enough money to write out a lot here but I will try to hit some key things.


My journey with the blessed Mary Mackillop
-Before leaving Pittsburgh she was the WYD patron I studied and presented on
-on the Gold coast we ended up at the little shrine dedicated to her and I had a moving experience at the mass with the Asian pilgrim group from Japan and Toronto...
-When in Sydney I stepped on a piece of paper that got caught to the bottom of my shoe.. upon peeling it off I saw it was a flyer for the Marry Mackillop church where here tome is.. they had a candlelight vigil that evening. It was not hard to convince the group to go. So we took 3 different trains and then walked up this large hill. While some people went to talk to another local pittsburgh group my mom, a couple of the girls, and I went to go in. Once there they told us that it cost 25 dollars per person, we were so disappointed and I apologized to everyone for dragging them all this way. The nuns saw our sadness and felt compassion once i told them the story about how I thought i was called to come because of the flier... they let us in for free! They even asked me to participate by drawling water out of the ancient well there on the site. (amazing!) I also got to pray at the building she lived in and the tome where jp2 and pope beni 165 prayed at. I wept tears of joy for the power of that night.
-Today, after loosing a lot of that feeling from all the struggles of traveling and walking and hiking around the city... i got to touch and pray at a relic of hers at St Mary's Cathedral in Sydney.



I still want to get to P Sherman 42 wallaby way Sydney

Time is running out!
The opera house is so beautiful
that huge bridge everyone talks about... i walked it... yup all of it.
yes i was at all the pope gatherings.. they were amazing.. including the stations
i slept out for the mass... i was in A8 which was in mulch.. corey and i got lost and got trapped out side of the race track for about2 hours wandering trying to find an entrance.
my camera broke the 2nd day here in sydney :(

there is more.. i cant thing... the time is counting down here at the cafe

I love and miss you all... i hjave been praying for just about everyone I can think of


Cant wait to see my NH BA players...
xox to Sarah B and Alli and Sarah E
xoxall my lovers

Kait