Just got back from a country Easter Fair! So much fun and so many crafts and stuff made by locals! It was great. I wish I could trust that the real eggs that they paint would make it in one piece back home....they were so pretty, but no way would they make it in one piece. But i got some other really neat stuff! And of course i had some Polish fair food--Bigos! Potatoes! This weird candy that looks like a cord of wire and tastes like Coke! And soft serve icecream! Spent almost the whole day out there. I bought this very special kind of cheese that is very traditional and made in the mountains. It is SO good, but really strong. It is like a smoked cheese, so it is very interesting.
Saturday was an awesome day! It was SO beautiful and Diana (one of my roomates) and I took a walk for like three hours! Just enjoying the sunshine and not having to wear a jacket of any kind!! It was amazing. It was so nice to actually spend time with HER because even though i have been living with her, we have never really gotten to know eachother. We are just so busy , each doing our own thing. So that time together was real special. And when i saw her the next morning, she was just beaming and said how much she enjoyed that time because she doesn't get out with people a lot and she just had such a great time meeting all the new people i introduced her to and doing the things we did that day. I was doubly blesssed to hear how such a small thing could bless her so much!!! And of course NO girl time is complete without the involvement of FOOOOOOD! So we had Stephanie over and i made them my potatoes and secret sauce and my carrot salad for dinner! It was scrumptious. And i was live entertainment! LOL. Apparently, i get very crazy in the kitchen when i am excited by my guests! It was Amanda's Crazy Kitchen, but hey, we were all laughing, and that is what i was goin for!
Marcin SMSed and asked if i wanted to meet him and some of his freinds for pool, so Diana and I packed it up and headed out for the club. :) Diana had never played pool before! So as it was her first time...it was like watching a movie...you know, how the guy helps the girl learn to shoot a bow and arrow, or a gun or....a pool ball? LOL. Not that there was love in the air, but it was just cute. Unfortunately we only had the pool table for an hour....sadness. So Marcin took Diana and i for a walk to two different bridges and we circled back towards downtown so i could meet up with Dagmara and Pawel to watch the "football" match between Real Madrid and Barcelona. But of course....as i have learned, Marcin has a sweet tooth....maybe two or three! LOL. SO we stopped in at Piotr i Pawel and got something to drink and of course chocolate. :) Marcin so generously shared his Oreo's with Diana and I. At the pub watching the match, Dagmara and i talked pretty much the whole time though, LOL. Which was really nice because we had a lot to talk about since we hadn't seen eachother for like almost a week.
Pawel was telling me that he and his father and brother may come to PIC for Easter service. :) Dagmara will be in her hometown with her family for Easter. And my friend Zofia has asked me if i want to spend Easter with her and her family. :) So excited to spend Easter in another country with different traditions!
Friday after my day with the kids i got to meet up with Emi and her family for FILIPPINO food!!!! So cray to meet a Filippino lady here in Poland! LOL. She came here for missions, met a Polish guy and got married! Htey lived int eh states for a while and just recelty moved back here to Poznan. She has such a heart for students here in Poland. It was relaly encouraging to be around her and just hear her stories of what her time was like when she was first over here and what she hopes for the future with her ministry. Her encouragement to me about what i am doing here. :) Her kids were the cutest! And so goofy and silly! She is really wanting to meet Dagmara and Pawel and any other Polish friends i have so that maybe she can begin to make connections with them too. that would be good.....because, i have been trying to get my friends here to go to FoF stuff but a lot of times they don't get too plugged in to that or church. :( I really want them to have more friends in PIC or FoF because when i leave, i hope they arre comfortable and want to keep in contact with people from PIC and FoF. Man.....holy cow....i am really going to miss these people.
Been talking to God lately about where it is He is leading me. I still am really unsure. i feel like i would LOVE to come back here. I really love it--the people, the oppurtunities to serve, the growth. This is the best expereince of my life so far i feel like. But at the same time, i dont want to get tunnel vision and put out other possibilities of where God might lead. And then there is the whole problem of there are more than one option and God would bless the following of any of them--it is really just fully up to me. OI.
Friday night i met up with Marcin at this "party" type of thing for his English studies class. They were all a part of this program in which they were paid by the EU to teach English in smaller towns and villages here in poland. So this was kind of a farewell, and job well done, kind of thing. Greg and Konrad were there too--who are friends of Marcin. And i got to talk with them and also the head guys for this program! They asked me what i was doing in Poland and their eyes definitely grew in size when i told them what i tell people when they ask me why i chose to come to Poland. LOL. You see, people are amazed that i am here volunteering my time to teach English becuase it is something i could easily make a lot of money from if i went about it the right way. And then when i tell them that i had never thought of Poland before, and it was actually God who led me here and how, well, they kind of scratch their heads but smile. :) It was relaly great to hang out wiht all these people but I actually had to get up an go outside because i was feeling quite lightheaded from all the smoke and how hot it was. So that night i met some new friends of Marcin's that i hope i get to see more and i hope will come to some FoF nights!
Marcin and i took off from there and just walked over to McDonalds....because as you may remember he has a sweet toooth and he was craving some icecream. LOL. So we sat and chatted while he ate his icecream. He heard about this oppurtunity to go to Harvard and he is goin for it! He has to write an essay and if his essay is chosen, he goes to an interview and if he is chosen from there he goes through more intereviews. It is only for Polish people and you have to make 16,000 zl annually or less (which i guess isn't that uncommon). their tuition is paid, their room and board is paid, their trip to US is paid.....it is an amazing oppurtunity! And Marcin has this personality where he is SO optimistic and energetic it is unreal sometimes! LOL. And he goes for things "taking life by the horns". And if they fail, he is okay with that, because he knows he gave it his best.
So this weekend was just a really great weekend and i got to spend a lot of time with great friends. :) There was a gorgeous full moon the other night! Made me so happy to see! Alright, i am totally wiped out from all the late hours and early mornings i have been having. Need to sleep. Must.....go....to.....zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
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