Monday, November 5, 2007

No I won't eat an elephant with you--Justin

So we've gotten into learning German. I can now sing head, shoulders, knees, and toes in German as well as say No I won't eat an elephant with you...thank you Justin.

Today we had a staff meeting and talked about how much BAFA loved it here. It's a real testiment to the type of community we all create as many of the atendees are not Christians and thus see the image of Christians for the first time through us. I loved them all sooo much and had such a good time talking with them and laughing at all the silly things they did throughout the week.

In the morning and afternoon we stuffed envelopes with our new brochure. We have one for DEFI and for Champfleuri. The best part is that Blain wouldnt let us see it until now and it turns out we're in some of the pictures. Doris and I are in the DEFI one...kinda comical considering we're not actually students, but I guess we fake it well :)

So after 4000 letters had been stamped, stuffed, and addressed we made lunch. It was 2. We had pancakes with everyone. It was a little pancake party here. Plus we have free reign in the kitchen so we had rasberries and fruit and tons of lovely goodness....i.e. nutella! I love pancakes. I'm not ten I can make complete sentences, but it's getting time for dinner so I keep getting distracted. We got a space heater for the salle déquipier and so everyone has moved to hanging out in here. Plus now we're cooking in here for the week so it smells AMAZING! Nimon is such a good chef and Justin and I are such entertaining helpers ;)
Today we made kibbee and salad for dinner so we got to roll out tons of dough almost like we were pizza chefs. Sadly we were lacking in the cool hat department. Anyways now it's time to go set the table and have some dinner. Tonight is salsa night. It is also Sam's birthday! Yea for turning 18.

ooooo and last night we went to the christian college group in Grenoble again for crepe night. I love them because I feel like they live in the real world beyond camp...its refreshing sometimes to get outside. Either way we ate tons and Sam's friends from church (who also happen to be everywhere we go lately) where there so I got to hang out with them. They basically refuse to speak english avec moi so we parle francaise only! Ahhh, especially late at night. After crepes we learned a new game and got a little into it. The Germans in our group at one point where arguing with the french kids in another language! Yes for multiple language games haha. Last we ended the evening talking to Miles (named after miles david, because his rents are that cool). He's an international students at Uni of Grenoble from BU in Boston! He's also going to Sem at Gordon Conwell when he's done and speaks pretty decent french. It was neat talking to him as he not only goes to BU, but also attends Park Street Church's early service and loved HUGIE!!!! Yes for finding a hugie lover across the ocean from Boston. He also told me the process of becoming a member which when I get home if I'm there for any time perhaps I will consider doing...hmm. To end the evening we got lost trying to find the moter way back to camp and ended up driving around Grenoble backroads listening to the who. Yes for Austrians that know their music. :)

On that note...dinner and some salsaing. Have a great evening!

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