Hey it’s Aubs, Taylor and Jessica here at McDonalds in Craiova, enjoying some non-camp food yummm. It is 2 pm and we are finally awake after our long journey home. We were supposed to leave camp on Thursday at noon, but the bus drivers thought we weren’t leaving until Friday, so we had six more hours at camp! We left around 6 pm and arrived around 5 am this morning… an 11 hour bus ride!
Despite all the traveling excitement we had a blast at camp! Each morning, our team of Americans met at 7:30 am to plan for the day, talk about God sightings, and pray. After that we woke up our campers, had breakfast, and a quick morning session of worship. After that, we split off into our English classes: each class was run by two or three Americans, and had one translator and about ten students. This was followed by a time of small group challenges held by the sports team (shout out to mine and Tay Tays boys!) Then came lunch, and free time afterwards. The afternoons consisted of large group games (sports team wooo) or a special event like hiking or water games. After dinner we had nighttime sessions that were held by our awesome emcees Jessica and Kayta! We would play pull-up games and embarrass ourselves, have a meaningful time of worship lead by the band known as Magnum Octopus, and listen to one of the leaders speak about different topics relating to the theme of Magnum Opus. After session, we split into our small groups (cabin groups) for a meaningful discussion about the talk as we ate tea and biscuits (cookies).
Camp was an amazing experience for all of us, we built so many amazing relationships with the Romanians as well as our American team! We are so excited that we got to share about God’s love and learn new things about our faith in the process of doing so. One of the reasons camp was so meaningful was because we were unplugged from the rest of the world. We were surrounded by beautiful mountains, and had no way of connecting outside the camp… the world could have ended and we wouldn’t have heard about it J but it didn’t, so we’re all good.
We will share more personal stories on camp in blogs to come!
As for the rest of the week we have some exciting events planned for us J We will be guests at a traditional Romanian wedding tomorrow followed by a reception and night of dancing. On Sunday, we will be attending church, and we have the opportunity to witness the church’s annual baptism at the river. On Monday night we will be having a camp reunion with all the campers!!!!!! The only sad part is that we will have to say goodbye L to most of them that night because we leave the next day for our debrief in Budapest! And we are excited to share Taylor’s birthday with her on the 10th yay!
LOVE AND MISS YOU ALL BACK AT HOME. MORE STORIES TO COME!
14 comments:
Sounds like a great week at camp. We look forward to hearing specific stories of God's work in your lives and in the campers' lives. Glad you are back down the mountain safely.
To Aubrey: Grandma Lani and Grandpa Stan arrived safely from Oregon on Wednesday. Rupert (Stinky) moved back in with Ben and Ben says he is adjusting fine.
So great to hear some news! Thanks for the blog post and all the great details. We can't wait to hear more. It has been a beautiful week of summer weather in Madison this week.
To Erik - we are missing you! You now got assigned a different roommate - a boy from Ghana named Jason Boateng who apparently really likes soccer. The other one decided not to go to St. Olaf. We love you and are praying for you.
Mom Gartland
So great to here from you guys, the trip sounds amazing! It must of been awesome to be "media free" from the rest of the world for a week. Would love that! Can't wait to hear all about it. An no worries MT, grandma is coming and she will cook all your favorites before you head to college!
Love Ya MT's mom and K
...and yes Brendon, you are welcome to come over for some of grandma's fried chicken!
Yesterday Angie, Susan, Isaac and I finally debriefed the Mississippi trip together and we were Cracking. Up. at some of Isaac's stories...and how he told them. Can't wait to hear the stories you all come home with!
Isn't it great to be unfettered from your phones and facebook for awhile! (See megan, you CAN live without it!) I can't wait until some camp photos are posted. Sounds like everyone had a wonderful experience!
Megarad -- we'll see Dave and family tomorrow and will make sure to give them hugs and kisses from you.
Cassidy & Hailey,
So glad you got some McDonald's fries...a little comfort food when so far from home! We miss you here, it is waaaayyy too quiet. (unless you count Cowboys vocalizations...then it is waaayyy too noisey!) Miss you both like crazy!!!!!!!!!!!!
Love,
Mom
I really enjoyed reading about camp and can't wait to see pictures.
Catie watching T.V. till 2:00 a.m. is not the same without you. I see you had the opportunity to get your french fry fix (at Mc Donalds). They miss you at Pedro's Fajita sales are down since you have been gone.
You are all in our prayers.
SHOUT OUT FROM KAYTA:
Happy Birthday Papa!
(Kayta, I forgot the user and pass so I couldn't make a blog post... oops. Sorry hun).
Shout out from MT:
Thanks for writing mom, I miss you guys and can't wait for grandmas chicken i know brendon feels the same way
To Aubrey: Mom and I got your text. We are happy for your decision. We love you and will be praying for you.
It is so good to hear from all of you! Megawatts, I am really looking forward to my birthday present, I can't wait to hear stories. We will continue to pray for the rest of your trip. I hope the wedding is a blast! Take good care of each other. Missing you bad Megs! Love you.
You guys sound like you are having an amazing time. Happy almost birthday to taylo and liefs new haircut is pretty rad. Stay classy blackhawk.
sounds like everything is going well and you guys are having a great time!
jessica: miss youuu. we have boot camp tomorrow and i'm very sad you won't be there. last one of the summer! i also only have 2 weeks left with the kids which is totally breaking my heart.. you better show up at the karate school when you get back on friday! love you :)
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