Bonnette Acres

Yes the title is cheesy but it is what came out, and it made me laugh. So I have three different post from my travels so after you're done with this one, keep on goin '. Well we headed to Doress which is a town about 30 minutes from lushnje , and got on a ferry around 10 on thursday evening (that is 2 thursday's ago.) There were 3 ferries lined up in the dark night like the scene from "You've Got Mail". Where you see the grandpas huge boat, the fathers middle size, and then the son's tiny boat. Yeah, ours was the small one. We entered into the back of the boat and walked through the small, thin hallways. If we had payed the lovely price of 22 euros more we could have gotten a room for the evening. But that wasn't there style. So we headed to an open area with rows of comfy chairs. It sort of resembled the look of a movie theater without a screen. On both sides of the room were rooms set up with booth type tables. The family decided to set up camp i...

So I did not get to take really any good pictures of EuNC. Sorry it was cold and I was pretty busy. I already told you quite a bit about my time there in the blog I wrote last week. So if you really want to know what I learned scroll down a bit. You shall eventually find it. But I fell in love with the school. It is small but just quaint and nice. I loved all the people, and met amazing young people who are such on fire for God. Way cool place, can not wait to back there. So all the Treveccan's got together and took a pic for the Treveccan. We took tons of pictures but tom only put this one up - the one where I look like I have a stink eye. But for now this is the best I got friends. We had a goodtimes showing our pride. ha ha. I highly suggest taking a trip to EuNC sometime. Totally worth it.

Once we headed back to Heiden Heim we head a couple days to relax before we came back home to Lushnje. The family was busy doing different things but only one thing stood out in my mind that I knew I had to do before I left. FIND STARBUCKS! I had been told that there was one in Stuttgart which was about an hour and a half from Heiden Heim. I got the address (sort of) off the Internet, and I headed towards the train station. By myself. I had gotten a feel of the trains from riding them with Elke throughout the past week. But of coarse she bought the tickets and told me where to go and where to get off at. But I knew I wanted to conquer it on my own, so I went. I was expecting the little automatic thing where you buy the tickets to have a button where you could read it in English. Samantha brown said most European train ticket things have a English button. This one didn't. Elke had written down the name of the ticket for me, so I found that name and struggled through the very little ...

Well We are back in Heiden Heim, we left the school yesterday at 1 and got bach here at 5. I was deffinitly sad to leave the place. I enjoyed my time there so much, and made really good friends from the school. I learned a lot this past week, mostly things not from the sessions , but I did learn one thing. For years I have joked and laughed about my inability to finish things. I take it so light and never look back. Well during this one sassion things finally caught up with me. The session speaker talked about ´Finishing & Finishing Well´, these words hit me straight in the face. Suddenly hundreds of scenes in my life began to reinact and I saw the hundreds of things that I just gave up on because I was tired or boerd. I realized right then, it really was not that funny. Just hours before these words echoed in my ears. I was talking with some girls from the college and almost convinced myself that I needed to stop my work in Albania and move to EuNC right now. Yeah, this is a probl...

So Im in Deutschland!!!! For those outside of here that is Germany. I have been here since friday evening and I have been loving it lots and lots. I cant even begin to explain to you how much I love this freezing cold, but yet warm in my heart place. It is everything I ever imagined and more. I am not going to go into great detail of all the amazing and way cool mm´s (Miraculous Moments) we have had here so far. Yet. I promise to give a detailed acoount with pics to follow once im back home. But I decided to give you a list of just random things that have happened so far. Here you go. Enjoy: * When we were travelling by train to Elke´s home in Heidenheim, im pretty convinced I saw David Cook (this past years american idol winner) hangining out alone waiting for the train. Maybe not, but it sure looked like him to me. * At the beginning of the methodist church service we attended yesterday morning, the pinao player played a classy version of the score from pirates of the carribean. I w...

So for the past month I have not been getting any translation during church services. This was my decision, there are so few people that meet at the church on Sunday mornings. So I felt the translation was just so distracting to everyone else. So I told them I could deal without it. Well of coarse I still have no idea what is being said. I mean I catch a couple of words here and there, but when the service is over I am definitely not recharged and ready to serve. I am still a blank slate, ready to be written on. (Yeah that phrase might not work right, sorry) Well my dear friends Kaci and Ryan told me how they get there church services from back home sent to them and they listen to them before they go to church. When I heard them say this it was a light bulb moment (Ah ha). Well since my home church in Nashville is only recorded with a really old tape recorder, that which I hear gets knocked off half way through I decided to go for another plan. On iTunes they have a thing called Podca...

This small phrase has echoed in my ears all afternoon. I have been working at the kindergarten in Gorre for a month, the lady who is my boss is a very nice lady but she is also a very controlling lady. No matter what I do, she can do it better. Yes I am singing that old song in my head. Me and her also have a communication problem. She knows english pretty well but not enough to go with the little albanian I know. Needless to say, we both get confused easily. Because of these different things going to work has been a little bit of challenge. I love being able to serve, and no matter what I do the rest of the day I know I have done at least that. And I love being surrounded by all the adorable kids. But when you have to get up early in the cold and willingly face dissaproval, it's hard. Today as soon as I walked in the front doors, Julie (my boss) welcomed me in with open arms. She right away told me how thankful she was that I was helping them, and told me that I was a very special...

Christmas was interesting and was a time I will never forget but... I was in a desperate need to get away and have a True Holiday Vacation. Let me just give a pre - story to this story: I have hit the two month time here in Albania. I dont know how I can explain what I am going through to people who havent been in my situation but I shall try. When I was told that I would be living here for a year, it did not fase me a bit. I thought of myself as wonder woman and I could handle anything. Well all my amazing strength disappeared the second I moved to Lushnje. Thankfully God was right there holding me up, but without him I would probably be back at home in Nashville right now. I would have ran from this situation like a scarred little chicken. God has kept me strong, and shown me amazing things. For the first month after I got use to my surroundings, I really became intrigued with this country and was ready to serve. Then the holidays came. I began to miss my family like never before. It...