Visit on Sabbath
Tomorrow I might meet my new crush :) We will see how it goes. I fear that I will lose a lot of time, but anyway it doesn't matter.
I guess the thing most interesting was the fact that my sister's class teacher and her friend came to the church in Holzhausen. Afterwards they were invited for lunch and "dinner". So now I will let you participate in the events of today. They were totally awesome and I am so happy that all of this happened, because I had a serious talk with Theresa yesterday. There is so much to tell you that I have problems keeping up with everything. Let me go in order:
Actually it started Thursday night when I wanted to really hurt myself, but since I promised you to never do it again, I didn't, even though I really felt the urge. I talked about it with Theresa and she had some interesting points. First of all it scared her that I had such feelings. But then she tried to be analytical and she made me see that I am a very lively person in general, but the fact is that I have a tendency towards being depressed, because of loneliness. So she told me that I should be more social, I should have some hobbies where I have to deal with people, should join in some youth stuff at church or do whatever as long as it has to do with people. This is probably where my problem lies. There is no one I can talk to, I mean really talk to at any time. Lately I had a really strong want to get a boyfriend and you also know about my newest crush (I will see him tomorrow, hopefully). I need someone in my age, or just someone else than my family to talk to. Someone who REALLY cares about me. I know that you do, but now I feel ready for a boyfriend, I am ready to take on the responsibility of a household and everything. I will be as patient as possible and wait for what God will provide for me.
So when I came home from school yesterday, I straightened up my room and since I wanted to clean my windows for a while already, I figured that I would have time for that as well. The sun was shining, it was an absolutely beautiful day. I only wore a T-Shirt and I was still warm!! Isn't that incredible? To be able to clean the outside of the window to the left I had to climb on the roof, which was a lot of fun, but slippery since I only wore socks. hee hee.
For the rest of the day I cleaned here and there and I made a cake as well, I decorated it as neat as possible (it came out pretty ok :)) and then it was Sabbath. I did a little bit of lesson study, I commented on Romans 3 and 4 and then I went to sleep, giving my sister the order to wake me up as soon as she starts her Andacht, with her teacher. She never woke me up, because ... she fall asleep herself. I thought that was really funny.
Today, everything went according to the time schedule. We woke up in time. I actually woke up five or six times during the night. That was extremely weird because I didn't have a lot of sleep lately. We got ready in time. Elli and Markus arrived in time and we got to church in time. The funny thing was that in Holzhausen they had Erntedank today, which we have had last week already. The little kids presented a song, and they were very cute. At one strophe they got some bread and the little girl, about 2 years old, started eating it in front of the audience. She wasn't supposed to and that made it even cuter. Her bigger brother was the only one of the three that were up front to sing. He sang very loud, but off pitch. No one really cared though. He seemed to be very comfortable with all the attention that he got. The little son of my piano teacher was the third one up there. He was very shy, but for the last strophe he started pointing his little finger (chin high) to God (who is in heaven). The bigger brother of the little girl, called Nathanael, pointed his finger up high, but messed up his thumb and index all the time. So it went like that: They sang about God who looks at us, or whatever the text was, and he would raise his little arm - thumb up, and then after noticing that his mother was doing it differently, he would change to his index immediately. This happened almost every single time :)
Oh I forgot to talk about lesson study, which was quite interesting as well. First of all the guy who was supposed to lead the group didn't show up for the first 7 minutes or something. Then he opened the door, sticked his head through and closed it. I figured that he might have been shocked by seeing Markus, the teacher from the Albeck-Gymnasium. So Michael, who took over after a while, went to ask him why he left and he replied that he went to wash his hands :D - so he asked what chapter we were on, which made it clear to everyone that he was not prepared at all. He just asked the questions in the back of each lesson study book. The first one was already a hard one. No one wanted to reply, but unfortunately I had eye contact twice and therefore he asked me what I think over this text. I gave an answer, not knowing what else I could say. After me, no one wanted to say something anymore. This was the reason why Michael took over. He is a Theologist and therefore it was a very inspirational time. We read Ephesians 1, 3-14 and everyone in this group (we were about 10) had to find out three aspects which were really important to him. The results were interesting. I liked the comment of Markus a lot, he summed up the chapter pointing out the main ideas. It was like everything has been said. But even though it seemed like that to me, a lot of things were added afterwards, which were no less important. I am sure you would have liked the atmosphere. Oh, Markus also had to start, even though Marion tried to be smart and change the order around. It didn't matter though. The second one to state her points was Elli. She had troubles reading the text, and instead of saying, ok you don't have to, Michael said, I will get back to you after listening to everyone else and you can formulate your questions in the meanwhile. I thought it was pretty tough, but I noticed when we talked about it during lunch that they were pleased by the fact that they got asked as well.
During all that time I was extremely hungry, my belly rumbled, sometimes more noticeable than others. After a while, my sister asked me: Don't you want to go and drink some water in order to fill your belly, so that it won't be so noisy anymore. I thought that this wasn't necessary, but after 5 minutes my belly convinced me that it was!! So I drank about a half liter of water and it really got less noticeable. Luckily I wasn't the only one who was hungry.
Then, once church had ended, we went home to eat lunch. My mom had prepared some lasagna and I had set the time in advance so that it would be ready once we get home. The whole house smelled like lasagna. It was so yummy. And the five of us only managed to eat half of what my mom prepared, because it was simply too much. While my sister was changing I made the salad and set the table, so that we could start eating ASAP. We were ALL hungry.
In order to get rid of all the calories we decided to go for a walk with the dog. We ended up walking for more than two hours, while talking with each other. My knees hurt really bad towards the end, but I was still able to make it. Tabea got thirsty. But all in all it was enjoyable.
The rest is told quickly: We ate dinner, but not a real dinner, since it was composed of cake and coffee. After that we made Andacht, and then they left. That was about it. Right now I am blogging to share my experiences with you and then I will either go to sleep, practice or talk to you if you will go online soon...
I guess the thing most interesting was the fact that my sister's class teacher and her friend came to the church in Holzhausen. Afterwards they were invited for lunch and "dinner". So now I will let you participate in the events of today. They were totally awesome and I am so happy that all of this happened, because I had a serious talk with Theresa yesterday. There is so much to tell you that I have problems keeping up with everything. Let me go in order:
Actually it started Thursday night when I wanted to really hurt myself, but since I promised you to never do it again, I didn't, even though I really felt the urge. I talked about it with Theresa and she had some interesting points. First of all it scared her that I had such feelings. But then she tried to be analytical and she made me see that I am a very lively person in general, but the fact is that I have a tendency towards being depressed, because of loneliness. So she told me that I should be more social, I should have some hobbies where I have to deal with people, should join in some youth stuff at church or do whatever as long as it has to do with people. This is probably where my problem lies. There is no one I can talk to, I mean really talk to at any time. Lately I had a really strong want to get a boyfriend and you also know about my newest crush (I will see him tomorrow, hopefully). I need someone in my age, or just someone else than my family to talk to. Someone who REALLY cares about me. I know that you do, but now I feel ready for a boyfriend, I am ready to take on the responsibility of a household and everything. I will be as patient as possible and wait for what God will provide for me.
So when I came home from school yesterday, I straightened up my room and since I wanted to clean my windows for a while already, I figured that I would have time for that as well. The sun was shining, it was an absolutely beautiful day. I only wore a T-Shirt and I was still warm!! Isn't that incredible? To be able to clean the outside of the window to the left I had to climb on the roof, which was a lot of fun, but slippery since I only wore socks. hee hee.
For the rest of the day I cleaned here and there and I made a cake as well, I decorated it as neat as possible (it came out pretty ok :)) and then it was Sabbath. I did a little bit of lesson study, I commented on Romans 3 and 4 and then I went to sleep, giving my sister the order to wake me up as soon as she starts her Andacht, with her teacher. She never woke me up, because ... she fall asleep herself. I thought that was really funny.
Today, everything went according to the time schedule. We woke up in time. I actually woke up five or six times during the night. That was extremely weird because I didn't have a lot of sleep lately. We got ready in time. Elli and Markus arrived in time and we got to church in time. The funny thing was that in Holzhausen they had Erntedank today, which we have had last week already. The little kids presented a song, and they were very cute. At one strophe they got some bread and the little girl, about 2 years old, started eating it in front of the audience. She wasn't supposed to and that made it even cuter. Her bigger brother was the only one of the three that were up front to sing. He sang very loud, but off pitch. No one really cared though. He seemed to be very comfortable with all the attention that he got. The little son of my piano teacher was the third one up there. He was very shy, but for the last strophe he started pointing his little finger (chin high) to God (who is in heaven). The bigger brother of the little girl, called Nathanael, pointed his finger up high, but messed up his thumb and index all the time. So it went like that: They sang about God who looks at us, or whatever the text was, and he would raise his little arm - thumb up, and then after noticing that his mother was doing it differently, he would change to his index immediately. This happened almost every single time :)
Oh I forgot to talk about lesson study, which was quite interesting as well. First of all the guy who was supposed to lead the group didn't show up for the first 7 minutes or something. Then he opened the door, sticked his head through and closed it. I figured that he might have been shocked by seeing Markus, the teacher from the Albeck-Gymnasium. So Michael, who took over after a while, went to ask him why he left and he replied that he went to wash his hands :D - so he asked what chapter we were on, which made it clear to everyone that he was not prepared at all. He just asked the questions in the back of each lesson study book. The first one was already a hard one. No one wanted to reply, but unfortunately I had eye contact twice and therefore he asked me what I think over this text. I gave an answer, not knowing what else I could say. After me, no one wanted to say something anymore. This was the reason why Michael took over. He is a Theologist and therefore it was a very inspirational time. We read Ephesians 1, 3-14 and everyone in this group (we were about 10) had to find out three aspects which were really important to him. The results were interesting. I liked the comment of Markus a lot, he summed up the chapter pointing out the main ideas. It was like everything has been said. But even though it seemed like that to me, a lot of things were added afterwards, which were no less important. I am sure you would have liked the atmosphere. Oh, Markus also had to start, even though Marion tried to be smart and change the order around. It didn't matter though. The second one to state her points was Elli. She had troubles reading the text, and instead of saying, ok you don't have to, Michael said, I will get back to you after listening to everyone else and you can formulate your questions in the meanwhile. I thought it was pretty tough, but I noticed when we talked about it during lunch that they were pleased by the fact that they got asked as well.
During all that time I was extremely hungry, my belly rumbled, sometimes more noticeable than others. After a while, my sister asked me: Don't you want to go and drink some water in order to fill your belly, so that it won't be so noisy anymore. I thought that this wasn't necessary, but after 5 minutes my belly convinced me that it was!! So I drank about a half liter of water and it really got less noticeable. Luckily I wasn't the only one who was hungry.
Then, once church had ended, we went home to eat lunch. My mom had prepared some lasagna and I had set the time in advance so that it would be ready once we get home. The whole house smelled like lasagna. It was so yummy. And the five of us only managed to eat half of what my mom prepared, because it was simply too much. While my sister was changing I made the salad and set the table, so that we could start eating ASAP. We were ALL hungry.
In order to get rid of all the calories we decided to go for a walk with the dog. We ended up walking for more than two hours, while talking with each other. My knees hurt really bad towards the end, but I was still able to make it. Tabea got thirsty. But all in all it was enjoyable.
The rest is told quickly: We ate dinner, but not a real dinner, since it was composed of cake and coffee. After that we made Andacht, and then they left. That was about it. Right now I am blogging to share my experiences with you and then I will either go to sleep, practice or talk to you if you will go online soon...
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