Weekend wonderings...

Operation find hidden church on the other side of the town was a success! Geoff, Allen, and I set out early this morning to try and conquer the bus system and make it to this destination that only existed in my head as a memory from the week before. It takes about 45 minutes to an hour to get all the way out there. We live in the southern part of Dusseldorf and this church is the furthest north you can go before your in another town! Fun times. But the service was great. The pastor is a fellow Texan. We got there a little early so we were able to meet him. During the welcome he gave the typical "If you are a visitor..." speech while handing us visitors cards. Note: we were the only ones he did this for. Haha. And then he went on to explain how there were some college students all the way from Texas (talking about us). It was awesome. I am so glad we got hooked up with this church! I can't wait to go back!!!




To get there you have to take a lovely hike through a trail in the woods. It's kinda fun.

.....

Then afterwards Geoff and I went to the Alstadt to find some lunch and ran into some interesting characters. Apparently they were about to have a parade so there were all these people dressed up in blue and red uniforms with instruments and such. I was sooo glad we stumbled across them because it was hilarious.


I took a picture of one of the boys as they were walking by and he got so excited that he grabbed his two friends and posed for me to take another one =)



He was really tall!!! We went to eat at the Döner place and he walked in for a sandwich. Haha! Priceless....


During our adventures Geoff stumbles across Dr. Pepper!! He has been looking for one since we got here and was convinced they didn't have them here. So he bought 3! =)


On another note...
I have decided that I am in love! With filming that is =) All week we learned about filming and all that goes with it. It has been a blast! Friday each group took all their footage collected over the week and made a collage of their favorite/best shots. Then our favorite mullet sporting camera workshop leader, Jens (pronounced yens), put the films together and added some music. I have yet to see the finished product but from what I saw it should be pretty neat! Hopefully I can get a hold of it and post it on here for your enjoyment =)

Yesterday Geoff, Savannah, and I set out to find the nearest Toys "R" Us. Can you believe they have those here? It was appropriately placed right next to a McDonalds. For a moment I felt like I was back in the states. Then after failing to decipher the letters of gibberish on the banners and signs the American soil feeling quickly vanished. It's like hearing a choir of heavenly voices and then the record player suddenly crashes and a loud screeching overtakes the moment of triumph as the voices slow and deepen until silence fills the air. Yup. Still in Germany =)

This excursion was part of our search for project materials. Our first studio project involves us making some sort of model that can function underwater. Toys "r" Us was our attempt at finding toy water crafts that we could take apart and use the motors. But our search failed. All the toys were either really expensive or really cheap(meaning, not useable). The journey getting there and back, however, made up for the failure to gain items. Savs brought along her really nice camera for the first time and I got to play with it a bit! Ohh it was amazing! I have to stop playing with all this expensive equipment though because I'm slowly realizing all that I am missing out on. Ignorance is bliss. Knowledge is discontentment in the area of technology.

Last night I got to hang out at Julie's(my new missionary friend who is completely awesome) apartment and it was absolutely amazing! We had hot dogs and played guitar =) What a night. We just played the guitar and worshiped for hours. I got to listen to a bunch of German worship songs and it was neat! Sometimes I would recognize the tune and sing along in English. Or when I was singing an English song she would sing a verse through in German. It was awesome! My goal before I leave is to learn at least one song in German. Julie explained that to sing the songs in German they aren't the exact words as the English version because the words have to fit. I thought that was interesting. It was also neat to hear her translate the German worship songs. They have such a neat way of expressing their love for the Lord. I love it!