Galeria Malta

O man!  Today was just awesome!  Really just what i needed!  This is going to be a shortie....I know! I know!  I have been so busy lately though and i HAVE GOT TO FINISH the missions movie before i leave for London in a few days.  So many little things i wish i could tell you but i just can't because i do not have enough time.  *Sadness*
This past week i had a chance to spend the evening with my girls Anna, Judit, Amelia and Stephanie...plus a new addition but i cannot remember her name for the life of me!!  We made pancakes and once again just spent the evening chatting about our cultures.  It is amazing to me how many of the young adults here seem to WANT a spiritual depth that they are not finding and it seems like they just do not know where to turn!  We were talking about the differences between the girls experiences in churches where they feel it is pointless to be there because they do not learn anything to be applied or related to, but they have had experiences where they do feel the "priest" is sincere and gives them an understanding.  And that's what they WANT!  Something personal and something REAL and something that actually has POWER in their lives and makes a difference.  :)  I am so excited at the partnership and relationship Steph and i are building as missionaries and the bonds we are making with these friends of ours who we both love so much and just want to get close to!
And today, Steph and got a group together (Marcin, Monika, Ola, and Tellum)  to meet at Malta and go for a walk!!!  We walked around the ENTIRE lake at Malta...about 7 miles and 2 hours!!  LOL. But we had fun and got to see some "wild" in Poznan.  We all had lunch first and then went on a walk and then some of us went for McDonalds after--i got a strawberry shake!  It was so nice to drink something cold and not feel freezing!  It was SUUUUUUUCH a beautiful day today.  The past few days i have not had to wear a jacket during the day.  Me gusta mucho.
Today at church, i had the oppurtunity to do something i LOOOOOOOVE!  Juice and I did a skit for the ALIVE retreat coming up and it went PERFECT!  The people were laughing and we were having such a great time. 
This past Friday, i had a great time with the kids because i was trying to put my Polish to work for me.  I was saying tongue twisters and asking for "biscuits" which are like cookie-crackers.....i think the kids were pretty impressed!  LOL, well, with my tongue twisters anyways!
Friday night i went to a party and then left to a pub with a few friends from the party.  Dagmara and Pawel invited me to a friends party and said i could invite a few friends, so we got there and it was so crazy crowded!  The flat was pretty tiny so we were all up in eachothers business, lol.  But it was fun.  Until they started smoking--JUST CIGARETTES!--and then it was a little sickening but they ended up going to the balconey, thank God.  So i mostly talked with Marcin becuase he speaks really good English and has so many questions about American culture and answers a lot of mine about Polish culture.  And then there was Monika who is my fellow fan if NICHOLAS CAGE!  lol. Telym is from France and Nela is just a doll and i love her!  Bogusz and Sylwester (Pawel's friends from Ninjitsu who i met at the training thing i went to) were there.  And Agnieszka was there!  It was good to see her, but she was not feeling so well.  Nela, Marcin, Monika, Telym and I left the party pretty early and went to a really neat pub called "Dragon".  It is like a castle on the indisde and there are all these different corridors and rooms and balconeys...it is really a neat place!  But so crowded!  I could hardly squeeze through the main area! 
I was oging to go back to the party with Dagmara and Pawel, but....something in my spirit told me i shouldn't.  It was like, i really had to ask myself why i wanted to go back.....we are called to be in the world, but not of it.  And i knew that if i went to the party, they were all going to be drunk by that time and there couldn't be anything too fruitful for me to do there or be a part of.  And i really wanted to make sure i was going not out of any kind of desire to be a part of the darkness but to be a light.  and i didn't feel like i could be much of a light in that situation becuase of the state i would find them in.  I hope that makes sense and doesn't come across as negative.  Because i don't mean it in a negative way.  Just that i wanted my heart to be right in going back and not wrong in actually wanting to partake in anything that would not bring a good testimony or glory to God.   So i went home and got much needed REST!
Which is what i hope to do here soon!  Still got to do some work with the video though, so i really need to log off.  So excited for the time to be spent in London and Hanover!