So I continue to love live here. It is like I live here, well I guess I do. I am slowly adapting to the community style of living. I am the dinner girl and with one other, we prepare dinner for 25 people, fun experience considering what we have to work with. 1 refridgerator, one stove (can only fit 2 pans), then we have to carry all the food from the 3rd story kitchen to the 1st story dining room. so much fun.
Right now we dont have a dryer, just a washer. in order for everyone to do laundery you have to do 6 loads a day, then they have to dry by hanging. i hope we get a dryer, how do you hang dry outside in the winter?
Our schedule is pretty light. we have breakfast at 7, then personal devotion time. We have one class in the morning. we have one speaker per week who focuses on one topic. this week we are learning about world view, so much i never realized. I didnt know I had a worldview. It is everything I have grown up with, what my church has taught me.
then we have lunch, which is always sandwhichs. That is ok for now, but I hear we will get very tired of it. In the afternoon we have work duties, such as cleaning, or cooking. Like i previously mentioned, my duty is dinner. So I have some time off in the afternoons which i spend doing this - writing. It seems like a light schedule, but we are beginning to fill it. This week is more orientation, we will start some outreach things next week as we begin to know more of where God is leading us. this week we are getting to know each other, praying together and learning the city. I still cant believe i live in Europe.
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Monday, September 24, 2007
I am here
Well here I am sitting on my roof stairing at the few stars I can count. My house is only minutes from downtown so the city lights block view of mosty of the starts, but that is ok for now because of all the other beautiful things I can see. Inside I can hear the voice of one of my roomates playing and singing worship music. I am snacking on cookies and thinking about all of you.
How different it is here - yet so much the same. there are different foods (no milk or pennut butter), more homelessness, communist apartments left over from the eighties, and of course the different language. But it is so much the same. There are still hurting people, people that love Jesus, families that play at the park, shoppers, walkers, runners and business people. They enjoy food and entertainment - so I guess it is not that different from home.
In my group there are 15 students. 9 girls, (5 of which share a loft on the 4th floor with me), 4 guys and a young married couple. We officially start tomorrow and will have orientation, prayer, worship and beginning of classes. We are ready to jump right into things. I am the youngest of the group, and am for once enjoying it. Most of us are from america, but those who are not, I truly enjoy their accent and getting to learn their culture as well. Public transportation is very important here and I already am getting the bus and tram down. I have done sight seeing in the city and thoroughly enjoy it. I am trying to take pictures now, because the longer I am here the less interesting everything will seem.
How to pray? Much of you have asked? For unity of the students, many of us are the same, we left America with no idea why…. If we can come together and bind with one mind we can accomplish much. (2) language barriar. I guess Hungarian is like the 3 hardest language in the world (glad I found that out after ariving here). I am slowing learning, but my vocabulary consits of only a few words right now. Thank you so much to all of you whom have been praying, it truly has been noticed. I have had not jet lag nor culture shock. I am not homesick (besides wanting my bed), for now there is no place I would rather be. I know that this has been an easy transition because so many have been continually lifting me up.
Well this is just the beginning and I thought I would let you know how I was doing and how things are here. Feel free to write me anytime, currently we do have internet at our house so I will be checking daily. May God bless all of you, especially those of you in the Salem area who are preparing for revivial in the schools - I pray daily and look forward to the report. God is moving not only in the Salem area he is taking over the world - it was already started in Oregon - that is why I have had to move on.
In Him, Heather Anne
How different it is here - yet so much the same. there are different foods (no milk or pennut butter), more homelessness, communist apartments left over from the eighties, and of course the different language. But it is so much the same. There are still hurting people, people that love Jesus, families that play at the park, shoppers, walkers, runners and business people. They enjoy food and entertainment - so I guess it is not that different from home.
In my group there are 15 students. 9 girls, (5 of which share a loft on the 4th floor with me), 4 guys and a young married couple. We officially start tomorrow and will have orientation, prayer, worship and beginning of classes. We are ready to jump right into things. I am the youngest of the group, and am for once enjoying it. Most of us are from america, but those who are not, I truly enjoy their accent and getting to learn their culture as well. Public transportation is very important here and I already am getting the bus and tram down. I have done sight seeing in the city and thoroughly enjoy it. I am trying to take pictures now, because the longer I am here the less interesting everything will seem.
How to pray? Much of you have asked? For unity of the students, many of us are the same, we left America with no idea why…. If we can come together and bind with one mind we can accomplish much. (2) language barriar. I guess Hungarian is like the 3 hardest language in the world (glad I found that out after ariving here). I am slowing learning, but my vocabulary consits of only a few words right now. Thank you so much to all of you whom have been praying, it truly has been noticed. I have had not jet lag nor culture shock. I am not homesick (besides wanting my bed), for now there is no place I would rather be. I know that this has been an easy transition because so many have been continually lifting me up.
Well this is just the beginning and I thought I would let you know how I was doing and how things are here. Feel free to write me anytime, currently we do have internet at our house so I will be checking daily. May God bless all of you, especially those of you in the Salem area who are preparing for revivial in the schools - I pray daily and look forward to the report. God is moving not only in the Salem area he is taking over the world - it was already started in Oregon - that is why I have had to move on.
In Him, Heather Anne
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