bliss.

my minutes in Germany were spent frolicking in a field, peeing in the woods, and staring out the window...

hmm...

I love my team. We are like a crazy weird dysfunctional family. Nine international art people, you can't even imagine the shenanigans. Today we did some serious scrubbing on a house, I feel so accomplished after a good day of practical work. Then all the girls hopped in the car, climbed a fence, and jumped in a small lake.

chaching.

so Budapest. These are the pictures I used for my transportation pass, including buses, metro, and trams. The other is a forint. 1000 fr = $5.50

that is fun...
I leave back to Vienna today.

plob.

The question "are you still going to Japan?"

Has been replaced from "I am still planning on it but I haven't talk to my contact." to "Yep!"

Today, was the last English club super fun, we talked about culture.

Tomorrow, we go to a school for challenged kids, we were there two weeks ago and they are super sweet, so excited to love on them. I am telling the story of Punchinello, the wooden person.

This is our team's ice cream feast.

The weather is delightful, but our team is feeling homesick, pretty much across the board so you could pray for that.
so take that plob of random informations.

plob = blob + plop

proud to announce I am...

...now accepting job offers.
just kidding.
But if anybody has any ideas, I would love to here them.

I don't even know.

if you don't have me on facebook then you are excluded from this post... sorry.

Once upon a time Alida started playing a never ending gospel chord sequence on the guitar, so we sang any words we could think of, then came these stupid lyrics, out came the camera so I could cut of my head... anyways I hope at least one person will enjoy the insanity.

david in the lion's den... oh dear me.

Weeks 4-5 (kinda 3-6)

there should be a bakery in every u terminal.

The metro here smells like lemon filled pastries and this late newsletter is taking all my blogging juices.

greetings.

Today, we went to a refugee camp. Some played with kids. I played music with Alida, Justen, and Silvia for some 20-30 ish guys. They really appreciated our music! It was really cool.

The song that touched the most is called White House.

Here are the lyrics I wrote with Alida's help. Hopefully you can here a recording eventually.

White House by Blomsten

Four white chairs,

Standing as they should.

Leave them there,

Don't mess up what you are told.

Crisp white shirts,

Standing in a row.

Hold that pose,

Don't mess up what you are told.

We can be,

everything,

the world wants to see.

Do you know,

This is what you're worth.

A couch untouched,

This house is not a home.

Chin up dear,

You can't cry in here.

But what's of me?

My feelings I can not feel.

We can be,

everything,

the world wants to see.

We can be,

anything,

the world wants to see.

All is well,

We have no problems here.

throw a beat.

Today, I:

Went to church

Did planning/practicing

Forgot to clean

Wrote a song with Alida

Took a nap for sickness prevention

Ate a yummy dinner

talk to my mama and brother

and did this...

In the last few days, I have been realizing what a silly girl I am. I love to be silly! Often I get a little carried away and come off as immature. I guess the word silly is just confusing, because it means stupid. I like to say things in weird accents, laugh my head off, dance while waiting for the metro... stuff like that. So to add to my plethora of silly tricks I want to add some beat boxing.

My inspiration comes from this...

So unexpected...

I googled how to beatbox and got this article:

How to... (I love how tos!)

It is complicated and takes way to much practice, so I don't think I will be investing the time to be good, but maybe just to be silly sometimes.

b-t-k-t-b-t-k-tt-b-b-b

And of course some fantasticness:

How to make playing the flute cool.

and this crazy.

funny things.

Cher gave me eye stickers, now my apple has a face!
You can find this in every U in Vienna! "Put your robot dog on a leash" -Andrew

I found this sneaky fellow while galavanting in Budapest. Awesome, yes.

Stickers are a fabulous thing, adults have forgotten this childhood fact...

check check.

quick run down, hopefully I will fill in some blanks in the next bit...

Yesterday = Street evangelism for half the team, practicing music and writing for Alida and I. God really showed up on the streets, really good conversations and one salvation. We also baked some fabulous muffins for the coffee house.

Today = touring Budapest in the morning with Gabby, she is a Hungarian and office staff at the base here. She told us the history and current status of Hungary while showing us Hero's Square and a castle. It was really great to get more understand the culture and hangout with a fantastic lady. Then half the team went on a sandwich run, which means making food bags and giving them to homeless people. I had off during this time and went and laid in a windy park then found a Hungarian dinner but I hope to get to go next time. Then we met with Steve who runs a coffee house ministry where we had two 3omin sets by Blomsten aka Alida and me + Justen. It went pretty good. I will talk more about the coffee house and other ministries a bit later. This base has amazing ministries that we are able to join in with. It is a big contrast to Austria where we were planning everything on our own, a nice change. Lastly, being here is giving me a picture of what I hope for Japan. I was hoping to English lessons but now I see another way to do it... just things like that.

Pray:

We have a sick Alida and sick Ingrid, pray for healing and immunity for the rest of the team.

english.

Budapest is going to be a busy time!

Today we had English club for University students. It was really cool to hang out with some people and just let them practice their English. We answered funny questions like if we had a million euros what would we do. I really liked it and think I will take the club idea to Japan with me.

pest. buda.

Sorry the internet was down for the last few days for Vienna. I bring you up to speed...

We have been singing on the streets as you know, so we started inviting people who liked our music to our concert which we had Saturday night. Some came and we got to hang out with them, that was really fantastic.

On Thursday night we had evangelism on the streets.

On Wednesday we went to a refugee camp and played with kids, they were so crazy! But it was really great to share smiles and play. I think there was about 10 different languages being spoken on the play ground. So fun.

We took a train to Budapest today, so we will be here for the next 3 1/2 weeks. The base we are staying at is super cute and we had such a warm home feeling, just what I needed. We had train ticket problems and had to pay a lot extra, pray that we will be able to work that out.

It is April 3rd now, June 5th is really soon! love love love.