Ich liebe Deutschland! [i love germany]

We arrived in Berlin on Saturday, and these past few days have been incredible. On Sunday we attended the church service at RESET here in Berlin, where we worshiped in both English and German. We've been meeting lots of people and getting to know the culture here. And a lot of my German that I studied at Auburn is starting to come back to me! On Monday and Tuesday we were on two different university campuses handing out free coffee to students, inviting them to the college ministry here in Berlin, and just getting to know them. I can't explain it, but I love it so much here and definitely would like to come back some day. I can't wait to see what God is going to do these last few days we have in Berlin. He is for sure up to some good things here.

Nerdin' it up!

We passed out free coffee at TU today, pretty much the MIT of Germany. You can bet that I got into some conversations about engineering and research. I made a friend today. We got to talking about mechanical engineering, the school, and his background. We'll be keeping in touch. TU also has a very international population, just like at Georgia Tech. I didn't talk to any people originally from Germany. There was someone from Poland, someone from Costa Rica, and someone from Venezuela. Weird, huh? Needless to say, it was easier to get into conversation with the students at this university.

We'll be going back to TU later this week. I hope to meet more people and show some more love!

People keep telling me that my picture is wayyy outdated! It was a year ago. I keep my hair shorter now. Is that what it is?

Send me. I'll go. Keep us in your prayers, including the Romania team.

I learned some German!

I am from Georgia.
I am a farmer.
Tomorrow is the harvest.
Do you have a harvester?


I have been saying this and laughing so hard.

Oh Germany.

Germany is very nice. It is very different and I love the metro (u-ban/s-ban) system. When we first got here it was Crazybecause there was a futball game and they were very excited. We went to church and got to meet some very nice people. Saturday night Romeo and I stayed at Sami and mattias' "flat" and they both were very nice and hospitable. They started teaching us German as well. Back to Sunday, we were given a list of things to see and told to figure out how to use the u-ban. Which isn't hard but could be a bit confusing. I also had my first currywurst. SO GOOD! I was serving FREE coffee today at Charité Uni and got into a really good and long conversation with Max. I hope to see him this week. I finally feel like my perparation has payed off and now I'm really reaching europe. Up until now I have felt as if Europe was reaching me but now it is a two- way street or at least that is his I feel. German is hard to speak but fortunately most everyone speaks English. But I want to learn it because it is apart of the culture. I love the culture. I love this place. I know God loves this place and these people. Das ist gut.

"You sound like a Chinese man trying to speak German."

We've been in Berlin for about two days now. I had a good talk with my first homestay host, a Berliner in central Berlin. His name was Mathias and he attends some of the Students for Christ events.
I was trying to say, "It was nice meeting you." in German and asked him how it sounded. He said, "You sound like a Chinese man trying to speak German." Germans have quality sarcasm by the way so, needless to say, we had fun talking.
We went to a medical school called Charite today for the free coffee ministry. Unlike America, free stuff is unheard of on college campuses here.
It was difficult to start conversations with the students there, but some of the people from our team did get to know some people, so hopefully they'll make it to the events we have planned for this week. We'll be hitting up schools everyday this week.

Berlin Ministry: Charite Medical University

We hit our first campus just a few hours ago...we took with us two big jugs of coffee signs that said free coffee and the hope to strike up good conversations. Things were a little slow all of maybe 10 minutes and then after the first few German students accepted our offer maybe a little reluctantly and probably in disbelief that this was actually free, students just rolled in! We were there no more than 2 hours, originally we had planned to be there for up to four hours but we ran out of coffee so fast! The conversations were incredible. We were able to just get to spend time with the students and understand their lives a little better as well as shed a little light on American culture and then most importantly found a few precious moments to share about the goodness of Christ and how he has blessed me and provided for me without fail. Today has been successful and tomorrow, hopefully even more fruitful!!

Learning the Ropes

we had a great day yesterday seeing the city and learning how to use the bahn (subway system) it was a grand adventure. Today we went to University and gave out coffee. It went well. We got a few people coming to some events later this week. Trying to speak german has been a struggle for me, thank God lydia can speak it so well.