a bit of this, a bit of that
Yup, I'm off again! But this time I forgot my camera so no pictures (sorry, Jenni!) I left the Netherlands last Saturday with John and I'll fly home again this Friday so there won't be much time to take pictures anyway!
I got my college application sent in just before I left, so now it's wait and see! It looks like I'll spend a couple weeks in the UK in Feb. Some time to check out the college, do an interview, see friends, visit my city, (yay!) and then some work for AB visiting schools, churches, etc. (This is of course based on me getting accepted, which I am just assuming I will be! I guess that's one good thing about the economic crisis eh, schools aren't in the habit of turning down potential (read: paying) students!)
The last few days have been a bit busy; getting up at 4am to leave at 5am and drive for 8 hr to train youth leaders in Germany, then driving another 4 hrs to Czech Republic. The last two days have been: drive somewhere, have a meeting, drive more, have another meeting, sleep, meet, drive, meet, talk, sleep. See my life is not always glamorous! But today and tomorrow I'm hanging out with a friend. I do a bit of work while she's at work during the day and then we do fun stuff at night. Tonight we're going to the sauna - my favourite! - but this time not in the buff, Rachel! (I could go into a whole discussion here about this issue - if you're gonna go to a sauna for the day (this is not just a sauna room, this is like a spa okay? with a pool, different sauna's, steam baths, whirlpools, herbal sauna's, etc, etc) then it's so much easier to go nude - you don't have to worry about any bathing suits riding up or down, sweating in your suit, etc. A caveat: I do always go on ladies day so it makes things a bit more comfortable!)
aaaannnnyyyywwwwaaaayyyy - that's what we're doing tonight, who knows what tomorrow will bring!?
On a totally different subject - I was at a concentration camp yesterday - the first one I've ever visited. We just walked around and in buildings - I found it appalling to even consider the atrocities committed there and wondered about the people imprisoned. Did they know what waited for them when they first walked through the gate? How did some of them manage to keep hope alive, much less their faith in a loving God? I (quite a verbal person, as you all know!) had no words........
I got my college application sent in just before I left, so now it's wait and see! It looks like I'll spend a couple weeks in the UK in Feb. Some time to check out the college, do an interview, see friends, visit my city, (yay!) and then some work for AB visiting schools, churches, etc. (This is of course based on me getting accepted, which I am just assuming I will be! I guess that's one good thing about the economic crisis eh, schools aren't in the habit of turning down potential (read: paying) students!)
The last few days have been a bit busy; getting up at 4am to leave at 5am and drive for 8 hr to train youth leaders in Germany, then driving another 4 hrs to Czech Republic. The last two days have been: drive somewhere, have a meeting, drive more, have another meeting, sleep, meet, drive, meet, talk, sleep. See my life is not always glamorous! But today and tomorrow I'm hanging out with a friend. I do a bit of work while she's at work during the day and then we do fun stuff at night. Tonight we're going to the sauna - my favourite! - but this time not in the buff, Rachel! (I could go into a whole discussion here about this issue - if you're gonna go to a sauna for the day (this is not just a sauna room, this is like a spa okay? with a pool, different sauna's, steam baths, whirlpools, herbal sauna's, etc, etc) then it's so much easier to go nude - you don't have to worry about any bathing suits riding up or down, sweating in your suit, etc. A caveat: I do always go on ladies day so it makes things a bit more comfortable!)
aaaannnnyyyywwwwaaaayyyy - that's what we're doing tonight, who knows what tomorrow will bring!?
On a totally different subject - I was at a concentration camp yesterday - the first one I've ever visited. We just walked around and in buildings - I found it appalling to even consider the atrocities committed there and wondered about the people imprisoned. Did they know what waited for them when they first walked through the gate? How did some of them manage to keep hope alive, much less their faith in a loving God? I (quite a verbal person, as you all know!) had no words........
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1 Comments:
thanks for the update! Sorry you have no comments yet. I don't have my handy little list of favorites to click down so I'm behind in blog reading. I still can't imagine the sauna. I mean, I'm so glad you go on ladies day, but still... taking a bath with a bunch of other people, seems so ... germy... anyway, I hope you have a BLAST! I can imagine the concentration camp was very sobering. I felt similar things going to the Holocaust memorial in Israel and that was probably more "cleaned up" and less raw than going to an actual concentration camp.
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