bible school is full of surprises... the most recent came last friday, the theme for our "social night" was ninjas and pirates... apparently this is a well known thing that if someone comes up to you and says pirate or ninja you are suppose to claim your allegiance to one or the other. so everyone was suppose to dress up for dinner and an evening with festivities. now i am about to get married right, so this whole charade seemed a little childish to me, but to disprove that i was not to cool to participate i gathered together a costume with what i found laying around (i didnt see ninja and pirate attire on the packing list). im not going to lie, it was entertaining for about 5 minutes :)

ummm, our speaker this last week, svekter weissglas, spoke on christ as life... a refreshing perspective from a guy who has been a missionary for 20+ years in greece and romania, doing mostly evangelism and speaking engagements, some paid, some not, but all for the glory of God. he talked about how we are no longer under the law, and how the church often acts like we are. i have a deep respect for svekter, not because i agree with everything that he says, but because he has a genuine passion and love for people and for the gospel. his zeal for life is contagious, and probed me to think. more than anything, i have done a lot of thinking these past weeks, critically about what i read and hear, and it has been so good.

sunday afternoon after lunch i tried to find chappy's "spot" where he would have his time with god while at tauernhof... i grabbed my pack and bible and headed up the mountain behind the school. 10 minutes turned into over an hour and i found myself half way up the mountain, and tired. chappy, i dont think i found it... :) i just couldn't stop though... theres a skt lift that just started up last week for the spring for tourists to ride, that i planned to take down once i made it to the top... and to make a long story short, i ran out of water, but came across a cabin where a guy offered me a glass of water, and i got to the top but the lift was closed! i was perched, but found an unopened bottle of orange soda beside a bench...thank you God, hit the spot! i was contemplating sleeping up there and taking the lift down in the morning, but then got cold after sitting on a bench for a while, my shirt drenched in sweat, decided that i needed to get down. then came across a gal that worked at a restaurant near the mountain peek that gave me a ride back to town. i missed dinner so i walked down down and got myself a kebab... something you must have if you are in the area... it was a crazy afternoon, but exciting and scary at the same time :)

im enjoying my time here, my appreciation and love for gods word is growing, even though it is easy to say that now. this is something that i have wanted to do since high school, but it is amazing how God's sovereignty has lead me here at this time in my life, it is so perfect. thank you to those who have prayed for me while i have been gone. it has truly been a rewarding and growing experience. 2 weeks left, followed by a week in romania.

shout out to CBC Youth! miss you guys!