Happy New Year

Hey everyone, I am leaving for Berlin in about 10 minutes and I just wanted to wish you all a safe, fun, and wise New Year!

There will be many updates once I get back to school, I have just been a little busy while on holiday.

And I'm off...

Well we have come to the end of our first semester here at Bodenseehof and tomorrow we are taking off for break. Tomorrow, Saturday, I along with my friends Stefanie, Katie, and Anna will drive to Stefie's house in eastern Germany where we will spend Christmas. On December 28th, Stefie and I will head up to Berlin where we will meet Kristi, our RA from school, and spend New Year's. After that we will train it down to Dresden where we will meet up with my roommate Kelsey and some of her friends. If we have any extra time we will probably head over to Prague and we may get a chance to go snowboarding.

It is kind of a crazy day here today. Next semester we will be in new rooms with new roommates so we had to pack everything and clean our rooms. Everyone is running around trying to get things done so that we can get our room deposits back and get ready for the Christmas banquet tonight.

While traveling for the next three weeks I may not have regular access to a computer with internet so...I wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Something new

Need I say more...
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Scrabble History

Yesterday, Kristi, my RA, and I played a game of Scrabble, nothing new there, but wait...my first word: binders. Yes, that is 7 letters long, so I got the extra 50 points as well as the double word score that the first player gets. First move total: 72 points. Now Kristi, first word: standers, now there is some controversy over this word because technically 'bystanders' is one word, however, we decided to accept it. That made an 8 letter word, so Kristi also got the 50 extra points and she also was on a double word score. After our first round of moves, the score was tied at 72. That was the first time either of us had used all seven of our letters, and at the first turn at that.

I know most of you will not care a bit about Scrabble, but it is kind of a big deal...Amy, you know what I am saying.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...actually it is not but...

We did have snow but it all melted...sad, but we are supposed to get more soon, but if I have learned one thing during my time here, it is: not to trust German meteorologists!

Although it doesn't look much like Christmas here, it is starting to feel like it. Last night we went out Christmas carolling with our K-groups. We split up and covered our whole area. We sang a song for each person who would listen (we did get a significant number of doors slammed in our faces) and then we gave them an invitation to our Christmas concert, called Advent International which is coming up this Saturday, and a package of cookies that the students assembled. The concert is put on by the students and our director will also be giving a short message. It should be pretty fun. The entire student body is making up a choir so I will be participating in that.

Also, tomorrow night, Wednesday, the entire student body is going into Freids. to the Christmas market and we have an hour slot on a stage in the city center to perform Christmas songs.

Our Christmas break is just around the corner, it begins on December 20, and with all of these events going on the time is just flying. Next week we are taking a trip to Stuttgart to go to the huge Christmas market that they facilitate every year...so, the Christmas spirit is alive and well here at Bodenseehof.

Other than that not much is new. Our lectures this week are on Romans which is a nice change of pace because we have been learning and reading a lot out of the Old Testament.

Well, I hope all is well with all of you!