Rebas' Adventure in Ozzieland

I am sitting at the LAX airport (that is LA California). I don’t have internet right now so I will post this later. It is currently 8:50pm Wednesday March 10th. I feel pretty good. I was getting a little emotional on the plane from Portland. I realized that I would be unable to call home when I hit LA and I started to feel a little isolated. Just thinking about not being able to call my mom or my friends when I get stress and need advice; I got a little feeling of panic, a very little feel, just a wrinkle in the stomach area. And that is the first time I have had emotion about this trip, I have been excited, but I am a fairly mellow person and I don’t get emotional very often. I thought to myself,” I will be a lot more tired when this trip is over and much more prone to being emotional, I hope I am not in trouble.” So I prayed, and then we had to get off the plane so I didn’t have time to think. I had to wait for a tram to take me the other side of the airport and while a waited I thought I would read my little bible. Kathy Glass (family friend) had advised me to read Philippians. So I read the first chapter. The funny part is I decided to stand because of all the sitting I was doing, so I ended up facing my chair with a bible in my hands looking like a crazy religious nut, GO JESUS! Anyway, the first chapter of Phil. has the verse,”He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.” The whole chapter was awesome and I teared up a little and calmed right down. (For me, crying is a calming thing, such a nice release). Then we got on the tram. The tram/bus went right out onto the run way, we would stop and a plane would pass us and would keep going, very cool. Then we saw this huge plane ride along side of the tram, it was a double Decker and it was so cool to see it up close like that. I was an Australian Line (I think LAX is a big Australia jumping off point) Just seeing that plane made me feel excited again. I am going to a foreign country! I am going to live there! But first I have to get there, and it is going to take a while. Staying with Portland time I will be taking off at 11pm Wednesday night, I will land in Sydney at 2pm Thursday afternoon! Then I go on to Perth which is another 5 hours in the air. So I will write again when I am through customs. Love and soda pop, Reba