Very hectic past few days--STOP--doesn't seem i have been able to take a breath--STOP--am taking a breath now--STOP.

LOL.

Sorry, i just wanted to see what it would be like to write a telegram.  :)

The past few days have been crazy!  A lot seems to have happened and yet i don't feel i should bore you with all the details so i will choose some of the highlights.  Sunday morning, i was so stoked to join the worship team for practice and then for service.  They are all Taiwanese students at the medical university here in Poznan (this is an international church remember!).  So i go from not understanding a word in Polish....to not understanding a word in Taiwanese!  It was pretty funny, but i felt right at home and was reminded of the past semester at ASU when i was involved in Life Among the Nations, which is a ministry that uses ESL classes as a way to reach out to international students.  It was pretty awesome; and i also felt inspired to cook one of my favorite things....fried rice!  lol.  So on my way home from church, along with my 6 liter jug of water, i bought a little thing of soy sauce.  :)  And yes, that fried rice tasted better than any i have had before--it had something to do with the salt content of the soy sauce, i know it.  They don't exactly get "salt happy" over here, and my tastebuds can feel it.
Sunday night i spent with Coralanne, her husband Erik and a guy we call "Juice"...I'm not even sure of his real name.  But he drank so much juice in highschool, he got the nickname Juice.  We were having a game night and the guys were going to watch the Superbowl later that night.  As always, Coralanne had some amazing cookies to share with us, and Erik is a pro with the coffee machine.  The coffee here is so much better than back home, and yet, i drink more tea than coffee.  I can't get decaf here is why (just one more thing Americans do that the rest of the world doesn't seem to).  But everyone keeps tryin to tell me that espresso won't keep me up and won't make me jittery like the American pressed coffee...hmmmm. 
So then this morning the power was shut off!  Thank God i was not in the middle of my shower like i normally would have been!  That would have been like swimming in a lake in Michigan.  BRRRR.  Bu ti had woken up a little late and was on the computer talking with my mom when all of a sudden no internet connection.  Bummer.  I could only hope and pray my mother wasn't thinking the worst on the other side.  This is where the story could get long, but i am going to shorten it.  I knew i needed to geton the computer so i went to the cafe--they were closed.  Then i walked to Coralanne's house--and usually the door is open without the code, but just today it happened to be on and i have no idea what her number is.  But!  A guy let me in who was walking his dog.  And then it was not until i had climbed the stairs to the fifth floor that i remembered Coralanne was gone to Gniezno today for a birthday.  OI!  So defeated, i decided to walk to McDonalds, that beacon of American hope, which i hoped would have internet access.  Nie (that means no in Polish and "no" is a way to express agreement).  Finally, after tram and a bus and some walking, i made it back to the flat.  "Dear God let there be electricity again!" and there was.  :)  The clouds parted for just a moment and then i realized i had left my wallet on the bus.....
JUST KIDDING! 
After that everything else started going more smoothly. I had my first English lesson today and that went very well.  And now i am waiting for Bible study tonight with Coralanne and Angela.  Studying Jonah form the perspective of this study is very refreshing and encouraging!  I am loving the emphasis she is placing on the fact that when an insignificant person gives you an insignificant task it is an interruption, but when a significant person, gives you a significant task, it is a divine intervention!  And a Divine Intervention plus a submissive response equals eternal significance!   That encourages me so much because of the "Divine Intervention God has made in my life with the leading to come here to Poland.  And i have so much joy to know and eagerness to one day know, what eternal significance God used this time of my life for.