Four years after her first appearance on Chip Lunch, Aurelia is back—and she's been busy. Since we last heard from her, Aurelia's been studying law and psychology at UNSW, shocking rats in labs (ethically, she promises), hiking glaciers in Iceland during snowstorms, attending a future leaders intensive at Cambridge, and spending six months studying transnational law at King's College London: a dream she's had since she was 17. This conversation is full of surprising tangents. It opens with a 10-minute deep dive into the trolley problem , moves into why KFC chips are terrible, and eventually lands on chicken salt and vinegar, Aurelia's chip preference, which she's been committed to since childhood fish-and-chip Sundays after church. But beneath the laughs is a thoughtful reflection on what it means to be a Christian studying law. Tim introduces the Hebrew concept of shalom, bringing wholeness and rightness to the world, and suggests that even writing wills brings shalom by ensuring the right people get the right things and honouring a person's intentions. Aurelia takes that idea and runs with it, realising that good lawyering, across corporate law, acquisitions, or litigation, is about bringing the kingdom of God on earth as it is in heaven. The travel stories are spectacular. Aurelia describes submitting an assignment 15 minutes late after throwing up all night from exhaustion at Cambridge, then presenting anyway because she refused to let it ruin her graduation celebration. She talks about hiking a glacier in Iceland at sunset during a snowstorm, visiting her grandfather's childhood home in Rotterdam without maps because she joked she'd "just know the way," and taking communion for the first time at a tiny English-speaking church in Amsterdam. And then there's King's College London—a dream Aurelia had at 17 that she'd forgotten about until she randomly checked her uni emails (rare for her) and saw an opportunity to study transnational law. She applied on the last day, got accepted despite being one subject short of the credit requirement, and spent six months studying with professors who are military advisors, UN court specialists, and leading experts in marine insurance and international institutions in crisis.
