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What Do You Think About God?

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This was our journal question a few weeks ago. Here are a couple answers that I just loved.

I think about God that he is the best person ever and he give us our lives and I believe in him. I think about when I go to heaven that it would be awsome because I am going to be with the person that I always want to be. I love God and Jesus and I believe that Jesus died on the cross for take our sin and I believe that Jesus will come back.

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I think God is a hero because he saves, and protects us. God is such good God because he died for us. He is the one and only God we should love and praise. When I go to heaven I will love and praise him more.

The Bridge at Andau

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The first year I was in Austria, my friend Jean came over for a visit. She had a meeting in Budapest and picked me up on the way. Admittedly, I am a terrible history student, so I really had no idea of Hungary’s past other than the fact that it used to be under communist rule. When we went into the city of Budapest, I remember telling Jean that it felt like there was a heaviness in the air. Kind of a feeling of oppression.

Today I finished reading the book The Bridge at Andau by James Michener. While it’s not a complete history of Hungary, it is the story of what happened to Hungary under Russian rule. The book tells the story of the Hungarian revolution/uprising in November 1956 and the subsequent exodus of a large number of Hungarian refugees into Austria. The story is told from the viewpoint of several composite characters. These are characters that Michener created from the dozens of interviews he did with Hungarian refugees who crossed the bridge at Andau.

I can’t wait to go back to Budapest now. I feel like I will see the city in an entirely different light. I have a better understanding of what the country and her people have gone through and an amazing respect for them because of it. I also want to go to Andau, Austria which is just an hour and a half away. They have rebuilt the bridge, created a monument to the refugees, and built an open air museum in the city.

If you are planning on traveling to Budapest, I highly recommend reading this book. Just a warning, though, it made me cry on the U-Bahn more than once. So if you’re going to read it in public, bring some tissue.

Love of the Word

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Each Thursday we have Elementary Chapel. It’s a great time and I think I enjoy it even more because it’s primarily run by the students. Anyway, on Thursdays we don’t have a Bible lesson because we have Chapel. Today one of my students asked me why we don’t have Bible on Chapel days. I explained that we use our Bible time to go to Chapel. Then she asked why we couldn’t do both. I asked if she would like that, and the whole class said, “Yes! We should do that. We love Bible.” How great is that? I think we might have to rearrange our Thursday schedule to accommodate them. 🙂

Human Clue

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Well, it finally happened. I got talked into participating in a high school activity. The event was Human Clue and I was the criminal Coral Reef. Several of the teachers dressed up as criminals and our rooms were used like the rooms on a Clue board. The students worked in teams to solve the crime. Miss Biel, one of the high school math teachers, was the victim. At the beginning of the night she was “murdered.” Then, she followed the students around acting as her ghost. She’s a little scary!

The students had to go room to room asking each criminal for clues. We had three cards we could show them – a room card, a suspect card, and a weapon card. They could only pass to adjoining rooms. Each team had a different solution which made it even more interesting. It turns out that I did kill Miss Biel with the ballet slippers. Yikes! It was really fun.

I was Coral Reef and my weapon of choice was seastars. Think ninja stars only way cooler. 🙂 The other criminals were:
Binary Brotha – weapon of choice: dorkstick (usb stick)
The Mad Scientist – weapon of choice: dry ice
Miss Dancy Pants – weapon of choice: ballet slippers
Miss Coffee Queen – weapon of choice: mug
Mr. and Mrs. Plastic – weapon of choice: frisbee
Mr. Samurai – weapon of choice: Samurai sword
Super Girl – weapon of choice: SAT Study Guide

Arnold Apples

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A few weeks ago when I went to the grocery store, I was greeted by this display of “Arnold Apples.” I laughed out loud. The sign says:

Arnold – Der Apfel aus der Heimat Arnold Schwarzeneggers
Arnold – The power apple from Arnold Schwarzenegger’s home country

The packaging is quite descriptive:

Healthy and strong

“Arnold” the Incomparable

This apple grows and ripens at the foot of the Austrian Alps in Styria with its fertile soil and unique microclimate of warm days and cool nights. Lovingly tended by skilled and dedicated fruit growers in their small and medium-sized orchards it is a rich natural source of health, strength, and flavor.

The cashier giggled at me when I brought several of these apples to the checkout. I just couldn’t resist. Being from California, I had to buy a few. Of course, I bought one for our business manager who is also from California. He was equally amused.

The packaging is in German and English, so maybe this means that Arnold Apples are headed your way soon!