Oh we have no bananas...

Thursday, May 25, 2006

Yay for parents...

I'm really glad that today is a holiday because otherwise I would have needed to take today off anyways...I've been going and going and I'm glad to take a break from all this business. Alas, no one reads my blog but I will babble on anyways. I survived my referat yesterday and my prof thought it went well, which is good. Today I worked on my essay and I'll just check it over on Sunday night before giving it in on monday. I should probably do some exercise today but I'm not terribly inspired to do much. Tomorrow my parents arrive and they'll be here until June 12th. I'm *excited* to see them again and I hope that they will have a nice flight. I don't really have big pieces of paper but I thought I could make a sign and look all *official*. We'll see. Tonight there is still Fire Abend and Lisi will talk about unfilled dreams...should be interesting. I made a cake yesterday and I'm going to bring it this evening because I thought I shouldn't have too much temptation around here. I need to not eat so much and I have a tendency to eat lol. It's all good I guess. Well, einen schoenen Tag...if anyone cares to read.

Sunday, May 14, 2006

SAFT Freizeit and time crunch...

Yay for being tired and sick ;-p Not really, but such is life sometimes. I was at the Sommersemester Anfangsfreizeit--so basically a retreat for the Campus Crusade groups of Freiburg and Tuebingen--and hence I didn't get as much sleep as I shoudl have. Nor did I do tons of homework and this week things will get interesting lol because I have a referat to prepare for and I will also be visiting 6 courses--I'm hoping at least because then it will mean that Dr. Loenker is back and I could take that Goethe course rather than a history course. AT any rate, back to the weekend. I ate way too much food and I don't think I want any dinner tonight...this morning I had four (!) albeit smaller bowls of mueslie with milk and applesauce and two pieces of bread. I don't know how I do that by then I went for a walk...I wasn't in the best mood and I wasn't too considerate of others (kind of in an anti-social mood) but my walk and God-time during the walk made things better. Yesterday Werner talked about the most important commandment of loving God with all your being and today there was a talk on I guess finding where God has called you to be and being a witness there fro Jesus (the great commission at the end of Matthew)whether you are a missionary or in your church or at a business. Yeah and in connection with last weeks sermon and my quiet-time today I just felt like I need to "light the fire again" so to speak because it feels like I'm often going through the motions, that my belief is coming from head and it really should be coming from my heart...when I sing worship songs, there should be joy in my heart; I shouldn't feel like I'm tired all the time and that reading the bible is a task, even when it speaks to me...and I want to be able to remember the things I feel God is saying to me. Yay for being restless and unhappy...so I want to be re-baptised and I was thinking of even doing it here in Germany. It's something to talk with my parents about tonight on the phone for sure and it would be nice for people to pray about it too. I just think I need to do something before my relationship with God becomes all head-knowledge and too much of a "burden" so to speak. That would be scary.
On a happy note, Laurels engaged!!! I'm very very happy for her and Ken and I pray that they will have many wonderful years together :-)
Jetzt aber soll ich wahrscheinlich zu meinen Hausaufgaben zurueckgehen. Ich wuensche euch--oder eher nur Bean, meine tolle Schwester, du (;-p)--einen schoenen Sonntag noch! Mach's gut.

Monday, May 08, 2006

Busy...

Man, I don't know if I should be writing this before uni this morning but meh, I thought a short commentary wouldn't hurt lol. Today I have a referat in my FAust course and then I'm going to a Hauptschule to help with the English lesson. The irony is that I thought I wouldn't be going there alone and now it seems like that is what I will be doing...I don't really have time for it but I thought that I would go at least once. *Ah well* Yesterday I arrived 1.5 hours early for a choir practise before a Taize evening prayer service...it was due to some miscommunication but it meant that I was making my lunch for today at 10:10 pm. I didn't stay for the service because I wanted to talk with my family but singing some familiar TAize songs was pretty cool. Yesterday I also ate a lot of food because there was a potluck at Calvary chapel and then they had cake at the choir practise...so I pretty much had two pieces of cake and that was my dinner *whoops* Not recommended by health people ;-p The predigt at Calvary was really cool though...talking about Revelations 3:1-7 and about how the church was dead and just going through the motions--are we just going through the motions or is the Spirit alive in our hearts?? I thought it was something important for everyone to evaluate...it's not too late to turn around until the day you die. Yay Jesus :-) Well, I should probably go now and get some exercise after all that cake yesterday. Einen schoenen Tag wuensche ich euch!