You shall go to the ball...

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Soooo, my first week in Großenaspe....
It's been a nice gentle start. The other girl in our team didn't arrive until Wednesday evening, so we couldn't start with the vision stuff until then really. Monday I had the day off, and Tuesday I had a meeting in the morning with the church leaders here, just a general what's going on type of thing. Then Tuesday afternoon, I registered, and I now have an offical piece of paper saying that I'm in Germany! Wednesday morning there was a church service for children starting school, I did a little role play thing with Maddo! I was rather nervous about that, with the German and such, but it went well :), I also used a party streamer for the first time in my life! Wednesday afternoon I had off so I went shopping!! :D Thursday & Friday we had team days, talking about vision and expectations of the year. And then yesterday I went to a ball! :D It was like a fundraising ball for Pais, and something else. That was really good fun! I don't have any really good photos though, I'm waiting for other people to upload them on to Facebook! But for now here's one of Sarah and Avalon, the other English speakers, and one of Sarah and me! :P Funny story about them last night actually... they wanted a drink, but they wern't serving tap water, so they took glasses from the table and got water from the bathroom!! hehehe! It was quite late when I got in, so I'm pretty tired today. This afternoon there is My Coffee in the church, for young adults, and then a youth service, where I'm being interviwed! :S
Well, I guess that's enough waffle for today!
Hope you're all well! :D
Tracy x

Time To Play Catch Up

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Foundational Training is now over, and I have moved in with my guest family! :D

FT was really good, we had a lot of seminars, some Christian stuff and some about children and youth work. Everyday we started with team time at 9, where we shared how we were etc and studied a bit of the bible together, we looked at Philippians and Philemon over the 3 weeks. Then we had a worship time, and then seminars till about 4/5ish. Then we cleaned. Some evenings were free, and some we had socials or ‘Pais open evening’ for anyone to come to.

I have a picture to upload! However I didn’t take it. Last Sunday, we had a social and we went somewhere... not quite sure what it’s called now. We travelled to Kiel by train and got a boat to a beach somewhere, I’ll try and find out where it was. Laboe, I just looked it up! Anyway, the picture is of some of the other Pais interns and me. I’ve never uploaded a picture to a blog before, so we’ll have to see if it works.

There is now another girl in my team! :D Whoop! She’s called Yvonne. She only rang up last week to ask if there was still room on Pais, and then she came to FT the day after. So she’s now gone back home for a few days, and will come back to Großenaspe on Wednesday me thinks.

My guest-family are lovely! The parents are called Torsten and Beate, and they have two children (twins) a boy and a girl, called Lars and Nele. They’re 9 years old. I'm getting on with them well. We went to an agricultural festival of some sort called a "dreschfest" (I think) which basically had lots of tractors! Was good fun though, and my church here had a stall up and stuff. :)

Today I have a day off! :) I think I'm meeting with my team leader (Maddo) later so sort out what we're doing the rest of the week. Wednesday we have a church service for the start of the new school year, which I think I might be taking part in! :S But we'll see!

Guess that's it for now! :)

Thanks for keeping up!

Tracy.

Ganz Schnell

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Hey everyone!
I'm sat in an internet café quickly writing a blog to keep you updated!
Everything is going really well, I'm having a great time!
Most of the time I'm in training seminars at the moment, during the day, and then there's socials and stuff in the evenings.
On Saturday we went to Hamburg for the day, it was pretty awesome. Did a little bit of shopping and then went on a boat ride round the harbour, and then to a fun fair thing. I was sooo exhausted by the end of the day, but it was exciting to be a tourist!!
Tonight I'm off out for a meal, and a culture seminar.... "how to be German" sort of thing, so I'm looking forward to that.
When I charge my batteries for my camera, I'll start taking pictures and uploading them!
Hope you're all well!
Thanks for checking in!
Tracy x

Der Erste Tag!

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Hey everyone!

I’ve had an amazing first day yesterday in Deutschland.

My flight went well, and despite being over the weight limit I didn't have to pay. God answered so many prayers like that yesterday! My team-leader picked me up from the airport, he’s called Maddo, and lovely. We went to the village where I’ll be working this year, that’s called Großenaspe. I looked round the church where I’ll be working, and where our office etc is. It’s a lovely old round church, built in the 17th century. Then I came to where I am now, which is Neumünster, where I shall be for the next 3 weeks for Foundational Training(FT). I have heard that I can’t use the internet in this time! So I shall keep blogging on my laptop and will up-load it whenever I can.

My German is surprisingly okay, I understand almost everything that's being said, and I'm already more confident in speaking! :D

I was the first to arrive for FT as it doesn’t start properly till today. There are a few other who arrived throughout the day and it's been great getting to know them over the course of the day! :D

Today I've just been hanging out with people, playing games and been into town for dinner (ie Lunch :P). Later I'm going bowling with my team! :D I'm so excited about that! :D

My Internet connection is a little bit special so I shall leave it there for today! :D

Tracy x
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