I know, I would be thinking, "again"? But, yes. I'm realize that's I'm transitioning again.
This past month has been hard. Hard to get up in the morning. Hard to make my mouth make the sounds it's only made for a few months. Hard to make myself pick up the phone. Hard to see my parents leave after a whirl wind trip around Vienna, Prague and Zurich. Hard to not go to my grandfather's funeral.
I'm not saying this isn't a wonderful life. My friend Ambra is going through the same thing in Milan and I think she's written it much better than me here. I can't wait to see her and Jenn again. So we can exchange stories and . . . I can't wait for this meeting. I feel like it's the night before Christmas - except we have to ride a train for 8 hours to get to the presents!
I'm also looking forward to another whirlwind trip after the conference to England, France, and Switzerland. I'm hoping that all this, besides being a wonderful adventure and time of togetherness with the people I love, it is a time to "pop out of gear" before setting in on a new phase of my time in Wien without full time language school. I'm gathering up my courage as we speak to really dive in when I get back. To let go as I haven't before. To seek out opportunities to grow and invest.
31 July 2009
06 July 2009
If You Pray . . .
Today (6 July) I started on the fourth book of my German course. I'm still struggling thought, but I'm so motivated to really get all my verbs down so I'll make sense! And, I'm still loving the language. I agree with my friend Maggie, I love how expressive it is.
My friendship with B has all but stopped. She no longer answers my calls. I don't know if she is out of town or what.
The good news!!! is that I met a girl this past weekend who is the daughter of the neighbor of my teammates, the Ingrims. I was with them when the Ings gave her a Bible in a modern translation along with a simple reading guide. A wants to learn more about God and is thinking of getting Baptized in her Catholic church. We exchanged info and I wrote her an e-mail yesterday. Please pray she will want to get together - especially that the Bible and other spiritual things will come up in conversation so we can make sure she understands the Gospel and that that she is being equipped to share the Good News with her friends.
Friday was Mag's last day in Vienna and we had a wonderful time together. She has a renewed sense of purpose as an opera singer and seems focused on continuing to honoring the Lord with her life! Pray for her as she returns to her school that they will recognize her growth and a singer and as a woman and that she will have opportunities to share Christ through that.
Continue to pray that God will give me patience during full time language learning. I want to be out there connecting, but there is a definite language and time issue because I feel like I'm always studying. Please pray that I will get lots of language partners so I can learn fast and so I can have some German speaking friends!
The Bordens left for the USA for six months on 18 June. Please continue to celebrate and pray over C's recovery. She is cancer free, and has shocked her caregivers, but still has a lot of healing to do after surgery. Also, pray for our team as we get used to life without our leaders close.
My friendship with B has all but stopped. She no longer answers my calls. I don't know if she is out of town or what.
The good news!!! is that I met a girl this past weekend who is the daughter of the neighbor of my teammates, the Ingrims. I was with them when the Ings gave her a Bible in a modern translation along with a simple reading guide. A wants to learn more about God and is thinking of getting Baptized in her Catholic church. We exchanged info and I wrote her an e-mail yesterday. Please pray she will want to get together - especially that the Bible and other spiritual things will come up in conversation so we can make sure she understands the Gospel and that that she is being equipped to share the Good News with her friends.
Friday was Mag's last day in Vienna and we had a wonderful time together. She has a renewed sense of purpose as an opera singer and seems focused on continuing to honoring the Lord with her life! Pray for her as she returns to her school that they will recognize her growth and a singer and as a woman and that she will have opportunities to share Christ through that.
Continue to pray that God will give me patience during full time language learning. I want to be out there connecting, but there is a definite language and time issue because I feel like I'm always studying. Please pray that I will get lots of language partners so I can learn fast and so I can have some German speaking friends!
The Bordens left for the USA for six months on 18 June. Please continue to celebrate and pray over C's recovery. She is cancer free, and has shocked her caregivers, but still has a lot of healing to do after surgery. Also, pray for our team as we get used to life without our leaders close.
03 July 2009
Preparation
(Written mostly last week)
Today I am sitting on a new bed that I have been working on assembling for the past three days. The frame itself was rather heavy and it turned out that I hadn't purchased the reinforcement bar that goes down the center of the bed. I had quite an adventure on the hottest day we've had yet getting to Ikea via a long U-bahn ride and a bus. Then I tried very hard to seem that I didn't think it was odd for carry and meter long five cm sq piece of greasy metal through the public system. Actually, no one seemed to care but me. I mean, the Ell's transported my leather bench from Caritas (charity used store in town) to my apartment the same way. Clearly, the system is used to people who don't have cars needing to move things from the store to their homes. My little American brain is just not used to it.
Then, I discovered that the wooden slates that Ikea uses rather than boxsprings was a big, difficult puzzle that took the amount of time to listen to three chick flicks from the other room - on my newly functioning DVD player! By the time Audrey Hepburn was falling in love in Paris When is Sizzles, I was confident that I had done a good enough job to try out for the night. Just a little bit of adjustments and it's the most comfortable bed I've ever had - and I've had some good beds.
This is all in preparation for my parents coming to see me next weekend. I'm so excited about our plans to see the sights of Zurich, Vienna, and Prague. I'm sure there will be a post about this soon. :)
Today I am sitting on a new bed that I have been working on assembling for the past three days. The frame itself was rather heavy and it turned out that I hadn't purchased the reinforcement bar that goes down the center of the bed. I had quite an adventure on the hottest day we've had yet getting to Ikea via a long U-bahn ride and a bus. Then I tried very hard to seem that I didn't think it was odd for carry and meter long five cm sq piece of greasy metal through the public system. Actually, no one seemed to care but me. I mean, the Ell's transported my leather bench from Caritas (charity used store in town) to my apartment the same way. Clearly, the system is used to people who don't have cars needing to move things from the store to their homes. My little American brain is just not used to it.
Then, I discovered that the wooden slates that Ikea uses rather than boxsprings was a big, difficult puzzle that took the amount of time to listen to three chick flicks from the other room - on my newly functioning DVD player! By the time Audrey Hepburn was falling in love in Paris When is Sizzles, I was confident that I had done a good enough job to try out for the night. Just a little bit of adjustments and it's the most comfortable bed I've ever had - and I've had some good beds.
This is all in preparation for my parents coming to see me next weekend. I'm so excited about our plans to see the sights of Zurich, Vienna, and Prague. I'm sure there will be a post about this soon. :)
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