Bonnette Acres

Let me start you out with a few facts: * I finally called my parents on saturday. It had been 13 days since we last talked. * It has been 19 days since my last post. * 3 months since I moved into my new apartment . Today I have finally posted the pictures. Ok. Yeah so life has been jam packed as of late. I have many exscuses, but I am just going to say dont be sad that I havent been on the internet. Because friends it has been a good thing. I needed to just live HERE for a while. With no distractions of home or other thoughts in my mind. I needed time, to focus on life here. I had gotten back into a rut again. I for some reason forgot why I was here. I was unhappy for no reason. Thankfully I gave it to God, and he my friends yanked me out. He reminded me once again why I am here, and now has really given me the passion I have been looking for here. You do not know how different my days are when I get up in the morning now. I actually want to get up. I am so thankful, because for so lon...

Well Hello Friends! I know it has been forever, and I am sorry it has taken me so long to get back in touch with the living. There has been a work and witness team here from Pennsylvania and I did a lot with them these past two weeks. It was fun to have other Americans to talk to and just to get to know someone and make friendships like normal life back in the states. It just felt good you know. But I took them around lushnje and helped translate the best I could with different things. This team coming was actually a really good thing cause it forced me to use the little albanian I have learned. But if you know me, the only way I learn is to put me on the spot and I have to do it no matter what. Well I had a lot of those times, and because of it I really have seen a lot of improvment. Woo hoo, thank goodness. I mean I still cant communicate really, but a least I am getting a sort of gist of things. Thats good enough for me. Well this morning was probably the most relaxing saturday morn...

This past week has been going, going, gone. I jumped right back into my daily schedule: I wake up at 6, have devotions and a peaceful breakfast. Catch a fergone (van) at 8, and arrive at the kindergarten by 8:30. Then leave the kids around 12 and head back to lushnje around 12:30, and have lunch around 1. Then I have a hour and a half to two hours to rest. Then meet elke around 2:30 or 3. We walk, we pray, meet with people from the church, and just go over future plans for our ministry. I usally leave her house or coffee shop around 5 and begin my trek back home to my apartment. From 5:15- 6 I do little chores, TRY to clean my room, pick up whatever I might have left out from the rush in the morning or just do something productive. At 6 I eat dinner, then me and jess usually watch a movie and are done by 8. Then I am on the internet till 9, and read a book untill 10 (or untill I cant keep my eyes open any more, remember I got up at 6!) . I force myself to wash my face and brush my teet...

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...