grilled cheese and the willage.

today we finished the week of relationships. to encompass yesterday and today, we started with the example of dating from the movie "High School Musical", a movie which i gladly watched earlier this year with a bubbly home group of 5th and 6th graders. then we finished with the dance scene at the wedding in "hitch". although it had its high points, i am glad to hear an end to the word courtship. there was so much learned and i am looking forward to the weekend to process it all...

to finish off today, the trumpet tour team met, my mini outreach group met for a prayer meeting and then i met with my friends. too many meetings, but lots of fun. one of the clips that tom and jen used during the teaching, was from "the village". i love that movie. it really made me miss home though. i cant tell you how many times we as a family have watched it, and therefore molly and i now refer to each other as one another´s "cherished one". uli decided that he was going to ask if we could borrow it, so tonight we had the very special treat of watching a movie.

charlotte and i got back to the castle around 10:30, after all our meetings, and everyone was anxiously awaiting the start of the movie, seriously , this is a big deal. i had gone to the store earlier and bought the makings for grilled cheese sandwhiches (they dont refrigerate cheese, ick)and all us americans were stoked for a taste of home. now despite the fact that they eat cheese and bread at every meal, the only germans who had ever had grilled cheese, were the ones who had been to the states. honestly, what a deprived culture. it was so exciting to be the one to introduce something so important. they all found it a delectable treat. so there we were making sandwhiches at 11 pm, 15 people crowded around my laptop, and one couch. haha. it was hilarious. in this moment, just saw the community building up around me, and i cant help but smile, because i it is such a privelege to be part of it. so we proceeded to watch the movie, no one really liked it like i do, oh well, and then my computer died 3 minutes before the end. hahaha. all was well, in the end we disconnected the coffee maker, microwave and hot water heater in order to hook up my computer with the extension cord (wish we would´ve thought about that before).

now, for the best part, most of the germans pronounce all their "v" with "w". so any word with a "v" sounds awfully funny. today during the lecture when we watched the movie, i was telling my german seat mates what it was called, and they would say "ohh the willage sounds like a great movie", "the willage, i have heard of that.." and so on. Now it is a huge joke for a lot of us. haha.

i realize we cant pronounce any words in german, but there is just something that perks my sense of humor when i hear..."would you like to walk to the willage with me? it might be wery scary, but we could quote bible werses as we stroll through the walley..."