We saw an advertisement for our session in Cologne while we were walking around today. It said: "learn conversational English from native speakers!" That's right...I'm a native speaker. Sudden realization. Another funny thing is that at least in Germany they use comma's instead of periods for their numeric separations so... 600.00 is 600,00. This makes it a little stressful to withdraw money from the bank because you're pretty sure you're still only withdrawing 20 euros but you think there's a slight chance you're withdrawing 20,000 euros (because it looks like 20,00).
Back to talking about camp Gemunden. We had a whole new group come in, many adults and about 9 teenagers at the peak. They were all pretty wonderful kids. They said it was "english week" so during our lessons we would read bible stories first in German (which was fun for them to laugh at our pathetic attempts) and then in English (we did not laugh at them of course). Our lessons involved various activities that sometimes served as object lessons, sometimes just for funzies. They also liked to sing a lot of old school songs like: "Pharaoh, Pharaoh" and "Walking down Heaven's Road." We must have sang the same 7 songs each time which consisted of the same kind of stuff. It was neat to see their enthusiasm for what most American teenagers would consider "cheesy." Overall it was a good week and we have since become facebook friends with many of them! (We're learning the great utility of facebook for ministry and/or short term missions). On a later post I want to post a kind of summary of the lessons we taught them.
That's all for now, the pictures below are a sampling of the second week at camp Gemunden. Enjoy.
Peace,
Brandon and Sierra
I can just see you guys there with all the kids.I love how you write about it. I know they enjoyed getting to be with you both as you are truly getting to be ambassadors for Christ. How cool to see the advertisement and realize you guys were the "native speakers." Love you both!!
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