D-Group

SpeakOut is underway! We have just finished our first week of orientation and training. The campers arrive tomorrow and we are all resting up for the big week ahead. I am excited that I will be leading a group of American girls I met two years ago. In the picture Lauren, Olivia and Lizzy. Each of them will have a group of Hungarian girls they will be working with and who I will get to know better through them. For our first time as a discipleship group we headed out to the local pizza place called Donatello's and shared a great pizza.

Housesitting 101

The last few weeks I have been house sitting for an American family that was back in the States. But the adventure started on the day I arrived. Zach drove me out to the house and was helping me move all of my stuff since I needed to move out of my flat. I had a set of keys to get into the gate and then the house but as I put the key in the lock it would not budge. We walked all around the house and not a single place could we get in. We had to call the landlord and ask him to come out and see about getting into the house.

I guess I should explain a little something about Hungarian locks. You have to have a key to lock and unlock the door from both the inside and outside. However if you leave the key in the lock on the inside of the door no one can get in. Well the people who were staying here before me had accidentally left the key in the door and went out through the garage with the automatic door closing behind them. So we were stuck.

Thankfully they had also left a small window partially opened. Zach said "I can get through that". So after a trek by the landlords son to get a ladder and a trip to another house to try a different garage door opener we decided that the only solution was Zach attempting the unimaginable and crawling through a small window and getting into the house to turn off the alarm and let us in.

As you can see from the pictures above the window was very small and I can't believe it worked but we got in a couple hours after my first attempt to unlock the door.

Below you can see the three animals I had the chance to be with the last few weeks. But it has been great to get some rest and relax as tomorrow I head out to Keszthely to begin SpeakOut.

My Parent's Come for a Visit

A few weeks ago I met my parents in Vienna. They had been traveling on a European holiday for two weeks and would spend the last week with me. We had a chance to spend a couple of days touring Vienna and see some of the sights. This picture is right outside the Spanish Riding School. In Budapest we saw a traditional dance show. It was a little hard to capture the photo as the dancers moved athletically across the stage.
As we were up at Fisherman's Bastion we came upon a choir concert by a group from France at St Mathias Church. I had never been in the church and was completely fascinated by the decoration on all the walls. So here is the staircase leading up to one of the pulpits.
Mom & Dad at night at the Fisherman's Bastion overlooking the Danube and Parliament. It is really hard to hold the camera without out moving to get the night shot. Sorry it is a little blurry.