This month has been crazy, God-filled, humbling, encouraging, and eventful. Hang on for the ride! :)
First, I adore my girls!!! All 17 of them! :) They are beautiful, fun, and full of life.
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| The first weekend we took the girls to France (about 45 mins away) to shop for school supplies |
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| Mountains along the way |
Kandern had a festival during one of the first weekends after school started. It was so fun to experience a little German culture...
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| Enjoying the food with my friends Julie and Larisa |
As an RA, I get to spend a ton of time in the kitchen... I'm learning to love to cook, and I'm also learning how to be better at cooking. But the best is when the girls cook with me!! :)
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| Chelsea made a beautiful Earl Grey tea cake with raspberries |
Every month, each staff member gets one 4 day weekend to rest and/or travel. This takes the place of having regular weekends off, since the kids are obviously in the dorm on the weekends. For my first (and only, so far) weekend off, my boyfriend Erkai came to visit from Munich. He and I traveled with Jordan and Rachael, an RA couple from another dorm, to Lake Konstanz. It's a beautiful lake on the German/Swiss border.
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| Checking out the map of Konstanz |
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| The beautiful cathedral in downtown |
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| Lake Konstanz |
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| Our hostel |
Another part of daily routine in the dorm is that each afternoon, one of the staff members makes snack for the girls to eat after school.
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| Smoothies! |
One warm afternoon, Stacey decided that we should have a picnic on top of a mountain...Callie and I were quite happy to comply with that plan. :)
And...My ROOM! :)
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| This is a "before" picture |
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| Another "before" picture |
A trip to IKEA and a little love made the room more homey...
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| I'm so blessed to have a TV! I love having the girls in my room to watch movies. |
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| Little things to remind me of people I love |
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| My own bathroom! |
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| And...back to the door. |
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| My room! Still a work in progress, but I love it. |
Another fun event this month was cheering for our brother dorm, HBR, in the annual football game.
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| The dorm mom, Stacey, and one of the girls |
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| Be afraid. |
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| Ohhh yeahhhh |
Back in the kitchen! Callie got 6 pumpkins from a local farmer's market. Four hours later we had 66 cups of frozen pumpkin in the freezer... Mmm...pumpkin bread, lattes, scones, pancakes, smoothies... It's FALL!
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| Taking out our aggression on the pumpkins |
This weekend is super quiet because the juniors are in Normandy and the seniors are in Rome! We miss them, but it's also fun to have a "small" dorm and spend quality time with the freshmen and sophomores.
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| The seniors on our red couch, just before leaving for ROMA! |
Thank you soo much for all of your prayers and love! Please pray for me to have a continued good relationships with other staff members, grace for pouring love into the girls, and a closer relationship with Jesus. Thanks for being part of my life! :)
I love every photo!!! And I love your room!!! Praying for you, sweetie!
ReplyDeleteHello Sarah Wilson. So good to know you through the blog post of Larisa Warren whose blog post you follow. I was able to look in to your profile and was so encouraged to know that you too are a missionary to the Black Forest Academy in Germany. I feel so encouraged to see young people like you, Larisa coming out of your country to be a missionary in Germany. The pictures on your blog post "Delighting in Hope" and the post on it "Life in Pictures" is so pleasent, full of life with joy and happiness. I am so thankful to the Lord for encouraging me through the lives of young women of God whom God amazingly brought in to my life. I am in a Pastoral ministry for last 34yrs in the great city of Mumbai, India a city with great contrast where richest of rich and the poorest of poor live. We reachout to the poorest of poor with the love of Christ to bring healing to the broken hearted. We also encourage young people like you as well as adults from the West to come to Mumbai to work with us during their summer vacation. Now since you have committed yourself there for couple of years, it would be great if you encourage some of your friends to go on a missions trip to Mumbai to work with us in the slums of Mumbai bring healing to the broken hearted. Would love to stay connected with you and your other friends. God willing I plan to come to Germany in coming June/July 2014 and will be so glad to come and visit your Academy. My email id is: dhwankhede(at)gmail(dot)com and my name is Diwakar wankhede. Looking forward to hear from you very soon.
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