Lost

So last Monday I got on the wrong bus to housegroup...after a while the scenery seemed a little unfamiliar! Thankfully I had my phone with me and got picked up :) I also managed to get on the wrong tram the other day too- thankfully it did not take me miles away!

Speaking of lost, (wahey cheesy link!) I told the story of the lost sheep at Rothenditmold on Wednesday. I had some really great pictures to help me, and they listened relatively well! It was great that we had a lot of children again.. even if it was mental! Some of the children were really really difficult. On the other hand, there were also a handful of really good one to one moments.

On Thursday at Mattenberg I taught one of the songs with actions that we performed at Hallo Luther- they got into it after a while! Like in Rothenditmold we have also had a surge of kids, including some who had not been for a while coming back. I'm sure they all turn hyper as soon as they arrive! They were all really loud and hard to lead.

I had a really nice day yesterday. At church I met a girl called Steffi, who was really friendly. After church lunch she invited me for a coffee in town and we really clicked. I feel like she 'gets' me, if you know what I mean! Somehow I felt at ease and we chatted non awkwardly about all sorts of stuff, and laughed about funny cultural differences! It was just a genuinely really nice time :)
In the evening I had tea at an old lady's house with another family from church. There is a new idea at church called 'Guess who', where guests and hosts get matched up, to help people get to know each other. It was fun!

I ventured to the library with Annemarie on Saturday and got a big stack of books to help me get thinking about my investigate project for uni. I'm going to be doing something about the integration of the Turkish in Germany. I can't remember if I mentioned before, but I sort of started learning Turkish as well! I have a little book with a CD, which is helping me learn the basics. I just need to stick at it. It can be pretty mind boggling learning grammar points of Turkish, in German!

Today I went for the first time into this little tiny Turkish pastry place really close by. I reckoned I could get chatting to the person, and maybe ask where I could learn Turkish properly etc. However I think I was slightly ambitious with my getting to know subjects for my project... either she couldn't understand my German, or did not want to chat to me, because when I started to talk, she said 'what did you want? Goezleme?' Ha fail! My plan alongside chatting away was to buy something little and sweet... however I didn't realise until this moment that it was more of a food bar than a bakery.. with proper savoury food. So even though I wasn't hungry I bought Goezleme, this tasty spinach and cheese filled pastry thing!

I still go swimming now and then but I really should do it more often. I have been fed pretty well by lots of lovely people in the last few weeks!

On Thursday I'm off for a couple of days on our camp with the confirmation teens. It should be fun! We have to keep it very snappy, full and fun for them because they are generally pretty hyper too.

Kassel is getting ready for Christmas- As well as the mass of Christmas stuff in the shops, I saw the first lights being put up today. These trees have little lights wrapped around them. Can imagine how lovely it's going to look!