But when I got to Australia, I didn t know exactly where I was gonna work. My come to Australia was pretty messy. I only stayed around 10 days at home, in Estonia and before that I spent 5 months in a country of Hungary. That is in the middle of Europe. By economy and culturally..well, by economy it would be eastern european country, by culturally..it s just different. All the countries in Europe are so different, by language, by history and also by economy. I just talked about Europe today with my school mate Armand from Indonesia.
He made me laugh saying: "I thought Europe was a country".
"I asked where are you from, and he said I m from Germany. Wait-wait! Germany! In Europe? So Europe is not a country?" he laughed explaining how he met somebody from Germany times ago and was excited about that. He told me about Indonesia. I didn t know that they have such an history behind. Dutchs colonised that huge country for 300 years. Wow. I just didn t know that. I don t even remember if we learnt that in geography class. We learnt a lot, but maybe I just can t remember. At school I didn t pay attention much maybe..
Anyways, where was I..Hungary. Yes. It situates in the middle of Europe and hungarians would be pretty offended if you call them eastern europeans. I don t know why. What s bad to be eastern European? All bad people, corrupted? I don t think so. There are lot of good people around. They were used to be bigger country, some parts from Austria, some from Croatia, some from Romania and others around them got some land from them after second World war. Maybe that s why they just would like to be something more than just what they are now. So this is where I was for 5 months and after that I only visited my home country for couple of days, around 10 days and then I came to Australia.
I m jumping from one topic to another and it reminds me my literature class, my teacher who told me to not have too many thoughts in your composition. It s just too complicated and doesn t make sense for whole story. But that s my story, even that is very brief. I m just trying to write down where was I 2 years ago, how did I start my journey to Australia and where am I now.
I only remember that I didn t know what exactly was gonna happen when I just got to Australia, but I remember that I had this good faith just like Bob Marley sings: "Everything s gonna be alright". And it went well, I got job very quickly. Everything just worked out smoothly, though I didn t organise that. Funny is that I actually owned money to my friend, who payed me the ticket to Australia and I had to pay it back, which I did in few months. The amount was around 1500 AUD
Now I m basically in the same situation. I own around 1400 AUD to the school, but now I have some difficulties. I don t have passport, I only have kind of paper that is called Certificate of Return which allows me to get back to Europe. But I can t work now, unless I wanna quit University of the Nations and get a job and quickly work out my visa papers. But can I actually renew my visa with that cetificate? Hmm. I doupt in that. I wrote to Immigration but haven t got any response from them yet. Next week I m just gonna call or visit them personally, that s probably the best and most important step that I need to do quickly.
It s 31 March now. We had meeting at this morning with my school leader and with one another leader from the base. Basically the situation is pretty dramatic. It s three of us, me, Armand from Indonesia and Melissa from Havaii, who still haven t got payed all the fees that needed to be in by..yesterday. And we were given a "mercy" to sort thing out by Monday. The rest of the team went to do recording of the songs that we wrote during last 3 months. All together we wrote 5 songs that would be on CD. That s cool. I didn t have any professional recording experience before.
Pictures that we took yesterday from the studio.
That was the school. On the meeting this morning we were told that if we can t figure out how to pay our school fees, then we have to leave the base. My question is only where? I put my money to school, believing that this was my next step after DTS( Discipleship Training School that I also did here in Perth, which started 9 months ago and finished 3 months ago).
"Hey guys get back to the vision what you had before you joined the school. Stay on your vision. Don t loose it. Don t give up. Remember why you wanted to join the school", said Armand enthusiastically to us after meeting. He s right. Why did I join with that school? I have my former staff at backyard doing something with my housemate. I told her the situation.
"I am leaving in 4 weeks", she said. "I thought I should stay in YWAM base, but I feel like God is giving me more and more this feeling that I should go home, set up my own studio there and maybe go to Europe later on this year", said Samarah from North Queensland, Australia.
I felt little bit encouraged. So it s ok to leave the base. And somebody else also said that there are seasons in your life, it was Karen Lafferty, speaker in our school for one week. So what is my season now? What was my vision before? I go back in time to Hungary. I remember I had this vision. Just writing songs and giving messages through that. During the school I have written at least 3 songs, 1 on guitar, and at least 2 on piano, but I haven t been very active contributing to the group in the songwriting.
"Even if you don t have money, it doesn t mean that you have to give up with your vision", said Jessica from Oregon. I like that.
I m not gonna give up. Anyways, my heart is in peace. If I have to leave the country in 28 days, then let it be. If I can join with media staff, then let it be.
"There are seasons in your life". Karen Lafferty.
And I believe that the breakthrough comes, is it leaving the country or doing something else, but something new is coming to my life that is called refreshing Breakthrough.
Just like there is saying. God moves in a mysterious ways.
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