Korean Dinner

Last Saturday the Korean families from our school cooked dinner for all the staff and their families. What a wonderful blessing from the Lord. We all came together for some excellent food and fellowship in the school cafeteria. I can't remember the last time I saw that much food! As soon as I upload the pictures I will post them. I am so thankful for the many ICSB parents who bless us. Not only do they so often cook for us and give of their time to school functions, but they are so kind in continually encouraging and thanking ICSB teachers and staff. I am truly humbled by the grace of so many of our parents!

Coffee Haz and Outreach

So, I have been here three months already, and I am continually amazed by the heart for service and evangelism so many of the students have. There is a group of kids that have been going into the city almost every weekend doing a drama and sharing the gospel. They are on fire for God and excited to share their story and His story. Here is a link to a video of the drama: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Z0iwwLx99Q
Also, last week StuCo (Student Council) put on a fundraiser for a charity that seeks to end human trafficking (Love146 and IGM). They titled it Loose Change to Loosen Chains and had classes and staff compete by putting loose change in jars. The staff naturally won :) At the end of the week, there was a coffee house to raise additional money. It was a wonderful time of fellowship and it was great to see the kids so excited about giving!
Here is one more post about the orphanage trips we do a few times a year through the outreach team:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlAB9YD0WXI

Croatia

We had a holiday a few weeks ago and we had a nice long weekend so a few of the other teachers and I went to Dubrovnik, Croatia. We thought it was about a 6 or 7 hour ride, so we rented a car (let's just say I had a "trial by fire" experience driving stick shift through the worst traffic in downtown Budapest ever!!!) and took off for the Adriatic coast. Eleven hours later, we arrived at our destination. It was a long drive, but worth the trip. We stayed inside the city walls of Dubrovnik and it was amazing! We spent a lot of time sitting by the see and chatting and reading. We also walked the city walls, which was quite fun. Here are a few pictures to help you get an idea of our adventures!

Walking the city walls...some of the islands

Beautiful!

An old canon

Still beautiful...

The girls: Me, Kacie, Emily and Hannah

How many weeks since my last post?

Hi friends! I clearly am still the worst blogger ever. I try to "spread out my posts," but quite frankly I forget. So, today I am going to catch up and then I am going to continue to try and be better. Maybe I should consider a blogging accountability person. Any volunteers?

Middle school Outreach

A few weeks ago we went on middle school outreach. What a wonderful group of 7th grade students I got to hang out with. On Friday we went to a facility for people with severe mental and physical disabilities. In the morning we planned a program for the young adult residents. We sang songs, played games, ate lunch and had a joyful time together. In the afternoon, we raked leaves and picked up trash. The next day we went to a local sport outreach day. Here are some pics of our experience:

Singing songs


Playing ball


This guy (I don't remember his name...difficult Hungarian) was very verbal and super friendly. I helped him make his pillow and he was so gracious and thankful. Later he asked us to teach him some songs and he belted at the top of his lungs! It was great :)

Raking leaves

Sport outreach day

High School Retreat

Here are some pictures from the high school retreat. We were at Word of Life from October 2-4. It was an encouraging time of fellowship and fun with students and staff. It was also beautiful. This retreat center used to be a summer home for a count!

Here is the castle...yeah..not so bad

Worshipping together

Some of the girls!

Me and my roomie Emily @ the bonfire

The Clap

So, I decided to contribute a post about a fun aspect of Hungarian culture. When attending an event that involves clapping, one will discover"the Hungarian clap." I love it. Basically everyone gets on to one solid beat of clapping so it is almost like a clapping chant. I went to the opera a few weeks ago and I have never experienced so much clapping! I am pretty sure there were at least ten clap chants. I hope everyone someday gets to experience this applause phenomenon.