Spring

I haven’t really taken loads of photos this spring, but I have a couple. Here is a brief outline of stuff that has happened since my last post.

 

Today we had our last Interaction team meeting for this semester. We met in Gareth and Liz’ house and enjoyed time in their garden. We laughed a lot like always.IMG_7205-001.JPG

I was invited to a birthday party at a bar at Andel yesterday, and I invited some friends along. Loud music, disco lights and Brasilian rythms!

My parents came for a visit in May.IMG_7192-001.JPG

Slovak Night in UKH Pardubice in May. Estera (who studies medicine in Hradec Kralove) had a very informative presentation for us. Plus, she brought us cheese!

Group meeting with UKH Suchdol in May. Students from Czechia, Romania, Indonesia, Bulgaria and Ghana. Milos led the evening (leader of this group, with the red trousers).

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A wonderful walk in Divoka Sarka with church friends a Saturday at the end of April. Amazing weather, fantastic rocks and grand people.IMG_7182-001

Movie night with the Pardubice UKH group in April. We watched Ex_Machina. Recommended! It is filmed near my place in Norway. We ended up discussing morals. We used a discussion form from damaris.org.IMG_7175

My sister Silje and her boyfriend Amund came to visit in April. We had a great time together. They bought me expensive meals, expensive candy and took me to the tech museum. Fun, fun, fun!april2016

Peter Payne came in April and had various lectures for students. This one was in Usti nad Labem, and was about somethingism. He also had talks about comparing The Quran and The Bible.20160412_191552.jpg

In the beginning of April we had a gathering for the students of UKH groups in Prague.20160404_194825

Zambia Night in the UKH group in Pardubice in March. Mutale and Lulu gave us an informative presentation, and served us Zambian food! IMG_6991-001

The prayer group at The Law Faculty in Prague a Wednesday morning in March. Here from our meeting spot at the corner of the entrance hall.

My cousins came to visit in March. Good to see them again and catch up. They are super cool people. We had a nice walk at Vysehrad and we had us some Czech beer. IMG_7014

I lived in my old room at Velka Ohrada a couple of days (swithced room with Mike) and enjoyed cycling in familiar surroundings.IMG_7000

In March I went to Krakow (Poland) with my team mate Nelleke, Joanna (former team member) and Thom and Helled from team Slovakia. We walked around, missed our trams, ate loads, went to the Schindler museum and enjoyed the city.

Wisla

This week my Interaction team and the staff from the Czech IFES movement (UKH) went to Wisla, Poland for a consultation conference with IFES movements from Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Austria, Hungary and Slovakia.

Workshop

We had workshops.

Leon from Australia leading morning Bible studies

Bible study with Leon (Australian that has been 20 yrs in Slovenia working for IFES)

We had Bible studies.

Anja (Friend from Poland whom I know from IFES Formacion in 2009. Had not seen her in 5 yrs. Time flies!)

I met friends. Here with Anja from Poland that I hadn’t seen in 5 yrs.

Walk

We went for walks.

The Slovenians, Lydia and Nate

We had food

Slovak team, Beata and Helled

IA volunteer in Slovakia (Tom) and my mentor in Czech (Gareth)

Lena from Latvia and Magda from Poland

Here from a local pub where we had a gathering where the general secretaries from IFES movements in 4 countries where questioned about their ministries

We had a Q&A (question and answer) night with four general secretaries (f.r. Slovenia, Austria, Lithuania and Hungary) stepping off.

Austrians on the side with Tom in the middle.

We had fun.

Nate and Brana from Slovenia. Brana is the new gen.sec. for IFES there

We had small talk.

Thom and Nate at the top of the hill

We did skiing. It was totally swell. Especially after all that sitting, listening, indoors for so long.

Skiing at Wisla

On the border of Slovakia, Czech and Poland

We did Border Hunting. That means Nelleke, Thom and myself joined our Czech gen.sec., Tom, on his big passion: visiting borders. Here we found the border between Slovakia, Poland and Czech republic. Fun.

Documentary

Of course we had to document it. VIDEO HERE.

The Czech Border Hunter; Tom

Look at the smile!

On the border  Border

The Slovakia and Poland side had pavilions with grills and benches. But the Czech side had none. (?!?)

bIRdS!

Birds!

Eva, Gareth and Nelleke in a very cool communist style train station at Havířov station

And eventually, we had to go home. Here at Havířov station.

Going home

Waiting for Regio Jet