It’s a small world after all

These past couple of days has been busy! Since it has been a few days, okay almost a week, since the last time I blogged, let me set the scene of this week. Travel is the main word for this week. While Monday I was planning out the devotion for next Tuesday, this Tuesday through Thursday has been traveling galore! Tuesday was a BBQ at the OM Headquarters with the board and all. I traveled there and back with a good time of stories, food, and companionship. I got to see a leader that I haven’t seen since the Albanian Camp at the end of May and got to see many new people! On Wednesday. M and I went to Bern for an international pastors conference and, again, I got to see many more people that I knew and even more that I got to meet. After the conference, M and I went to tour the Old Town of Bern where the cathedral, government buildings, Swiss bank, and older buildings are. After that, I went on to Interlaken and Luzern. After many delays of the train, people were starting to get antsy and actually started to talk to others rather than be on their phones, laptops, etc. I was able to meet people from India, New Hampshire, California, and, of course, Switzerland. They were all very awesome people who do really cool jobs or want to do really cool jobs. The people from India work in the financial state (I don’t know if that’s the right word) in India, the girls from California just graduated high school (how they have money to travel all throughout Europe astounds me), the lady from New Hampshire is a nurse, and the guy from Switzerland sells insurance. They were all very nice and were very talkative. We talked about anything and everything. They asked what I was doing in Switzerland and I was able to tell them and when they asked who I was with, I was able to share some gospel (they weren’t really specific about what ‘who’ they meant...). After the train delays, though I wasn’t able to see all that I wanted to see, I had talked to people from three continents. So yes, it’s a small world after all, indeed.

Thursday was a fun work day. All of HFZ was able to say goodbye to R as she starts her new journey. We all went to the river Rhine where we all got on a small boat. If you all know me, I am terrified to be on a small boat. I barely and rarely go fishing in a small boat let alone hours upon hours on a small boat in the river. However, I did it. I’m still terrified of the small boats, but I feel that if I can steer the boat, then I feel more comfortable in the boat. We all took turns jumping out of the boat into the river and took the time to help everyone get back in. Usually it was pretty easy to get people back in as there was a small ladder. All we had to do was make sure the boat was steady when they came in. However, I had never 1) gone into a river this deep, 2) jumped out of a boat, and 3) tried to get back into the boat. Needless to say, I was not successful getting back in the boat via the ladder. Luckily there was a shoreline nearby to where we could pull up and I could get in again. Also, one of our members just got trained in how to save people that are stuck in the water. Lucky me! All in all, it was a wonderful and fun filled time!! Even though I am still terrified of small boats, I might go back again, just without jumping.

This week was a perfect week to end June. Also, today is my final day for the project to be on the streets. I will finish up this afternoon and then do reports on it all. Only 3 more work weeks to go then I will be getting ready and leaving for Italy before going back home. So, until the next blog (and honestly I don’t know when that will be)!