it is truely amazing here, i actully know people here now (who will speak to me), so it has become really fun lately. I planned a soccer game yesterday and we were able to play 6 on 6. my team composed of 3 american, including myself, and 3 polish people, the other team all polish. it was a very difficult game, these european people can really play. It was a close game, but we won. big suprise right? well i was also the only girl who played, an even bigger suprise. I ended up getting a charlie horse in both calves which went away after a minute, and then i continued play. everyone was impressed that i could play so well for being a girl, but these guys were so good. they would sometimes get too carried away and get it stolen, but for the most part, they could move any which way around me and i wouldn't have much of a chance to stop them.
the guitar workshop is going well, i'm starting to actually sound like i might know what i am doing. simple chords for now, but just practicing transitions. the kids here are great. there are some kids who haven't quite left that teenage "i'm too cool for this" stage yet, but for the most part they are just here to have a good time and praise god. i believe that last night was the largest number of kids to turn their lives over to christ. it was a pretty cool night.
all relationships between church members and staff are great, no arguements or bad feelings towards anyone, which i know of.
the other night we went to grorskis, don't think i spelled that right, but that is how it sounds. it is a truck stop, but more like a resturant and is owned by the polish mafia. they had some really good pork and fries, i don't know what they do with it, but since being here, it about doubled my normal meal size. speaking of food the snack shack here has some awesome juices and these ice cream bars called magnum. they are good.
everything is going well here in poland. only today and tomorrow left at camp and then we are visiting lozy i think that is how you spell it, only there is a slash through the l. there we will be shopping more, i guess there is a big mall there. but for today our schedule is a little different. we are not having our afternoon classes and are all going down to the "beach" or the river and swimming. then there is a banquet, which is usually friday, but it got moved to today. it is a picnic and you dress up and are supposed to have a date for it. pretty much you just eat dinner with someone and look nice. its not for sure all of this, it is just what i've heard. messages tend to miss you or not get translated right or at all or just very delayed.
sometimes i forget i'm in poland, the area is so green, and foresty that you forget you aren't in kansas. just another camp, other than the fact that people around you are speaking and you don't understand them. not understanding what people are talking about has become normal here, i just ask for a translation and then i understand. most counslors here can speak both polish and english, so it isn't too bad. i am going to miss it here when i leave. i wish i could stay longer, just another week or so. i dont know how that would go though. i would have no energy from little sleep and little food. those things i am ready to be back for, as well as to see all of you. as for homesickness, i'm doing great. the first few days here was a little hard, only because it was odd to be from home, but i am getting used to it. another week though and i would definitely be missing home. there are a bunch of little kids, who's parents work here, who i play with and they always remind me of daniel. the girls not so much of rachel, even in another country she is more mature than any girl her age i've met.
mom, dad, rachel, daniel, teddy and maggie i love you all. it will only be a few days until i'll be home, so rachel enjoy wearing my clothes and playing with my phone while you have that privellage. rachel please text jarrett and let her know my email : madeline.heeren@gmail.com. i would really like to be able to get in touch with her. I may be calling you later tonight. if i don't, because it sounds like a pretty crazy day, i will call tomorrow.
papa i will work on getting that polish newspaper when we go into the city.
that is all for now, hopefully i will be able to put up some more pictures here soon.
bye.
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