Austria, Bratislava, Budapest, and Malenovice….what next?

I am in EUROPE! Let me tell you: 8 hr plane rides are NO FUN. Sitting in airports = NO FUN (when you’re tired….if you’re not then airports are fun!) When we arrived in Vienna we started our “Amazing Race”. It was super hard and stressful, but we got to go to many different places which I listed in the title. We were only allowed so much money which we spent on buses, trams, and metros, that we didn’t have much for food. There was one point in the race when we had to find a place called “Fisherman’s Point” in Budapest. We got directions from a lady in the grocery store and we ended up going back and forth over a bridge about 5 times. It was really draining emotionally and physically (I have blisters to prove it!), but it was fun to hang out with my team.  I have tons of pictures that I have to upload yet. I am not sitting in the hotel where we’ll do our training. It’s called Malenovice and It’s beautiful here. It’s in the mountains in the Czech Republic. It’s very relaxing after having to run around for three days. We’ve been learning a lot already and EATING a lot which I do not hate after being malnourished for a couple of days. We’ve started our English teaching training and our discussion group training today. Our discussion groups will be in a “stories” format. We’ll be sharing the story of God and letting the gospel and the holy spirit reach out to the teens as well as the relationships we form with them. I’m getting pretty nervous about teaching. Please pray for the teens that will be coming to the camps and please pray for me and my team that we can learn and grow this week in preparations for our English camps.

I already miss the United States, but know that God has me here for a purpose.

Na shledanou! (Goodbye!)

Dora