Visited Berlin International Church at 11am. Service is held in English, but we sang some worship songs in German, which I thought was pretty cool. We sang Brooke Fraser's "Hosanna" in German, which made me feel so at home b/c it was familiar to me. But it was so encouraging to see how other Christians worship in other countries and to realize that God's love transcends all languages and cultures. Amazing.
I made a friend in the coffee/snack line after service. Her name is Rachel and she's doing a study abroad research project for a month. She's a student at Univ. of Wash. (UDub) and I pounced on her after hearing her American accent! We became instant friends and spent the rest of the day together visiting the DDR museum and visiting another church service with die kreative (translates into "the creative").
Rachel and I met up with a friend of a friend to visit her church's (die kreative) service. I had only been in contact with Tabea through email, but she was nice enough to meet up with me to take me to her church service, which meets in the park on sundays. This week they were doing an outreach....but all in german. So Rachel and I just ended up looking around the park b/c there was a fair going on that day. We ended up eating these great individual sized pizzas which were YUMMY!!! :)
Day 4 - Mon, 09.08
This was my friend Kerstin's last day before heading off to get rehab for her spine/back. So you might be wondering where she was staying while I was in her room. Well, one of the other flatmates, Tobi, was letting her stay on his couch in his room since the day I arrived. To add to that, 2 of my other flatmates had friends/family staying over. So yeah, the flat was a leeetle crowded...I think at the peak, there were 7 of us sharing one bathroom. Wasn't so bad, though.
As Kerstin's farewell gift to us all before she left for at least a month, she decided to cook us all goulasche. Goulasche is a traditional Hungarian stew that is really popular in Germany for some reason. Anyways, it was good! :) It was nice to have a home cooked "german" meal...
3 comments:
yay! so excited for you! I'm so glad you met friends- i think we both know how hard can be starting fresh in another country! Keep blogging and exploring!
How exciting! Sounds like you're going to be just fine over there. I wish I was there enjoying the weiners in a jar... okay, maybe not. But definitely try the currywurst. :P
I sent an email to my friend there- hopefully you can meet up with her!
hey, i'm glad you've been able to find friends! miss you! ... oh, i love those photos from the supermarkt... *smile*
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