A New Bike, Easter Sunday, A New Team!

A lot has happened here in Germany as of late - it's been wonderful! Here's a little update...

I got a new bike! Two Saturdays ago, Tyler and I went to a "Rad Flohmarkt." (A bicycle flea-market.) We actually had terrible luck. We got there 15 minutes after they opened and already so many bikes were gone. There were lots of racing bikes and kids bikes, but very few every-day bikes. We bought a junker for 40Euros, but later found out that was a terrible mistake. After taking it to 3 different shops who all said they wouldn't work on the bike, we took it back to the Flohmarkt. They took pity on us and returned our money. From there, we went back to one of the bike shops and bought a used bike there. It was expensive, but it was less than the cost of fixing the junker. Now I have no limits to the city of Tübingen!

Easter Sunday we had a fabulous brunch at the Unterwegs house. We started out the morning with the whole team and a student going to a two hour church service. They sung 3 to 4 songs in English, so that was wonderful for me. Then we headed to Unterwegs for a yummy brunch and Easter games. We had about 15 students come and celebrate Easter with us. We had one student, who a week ago was saying, "Easter games. Please, that's for kids. I'll just watch," at the end of the day saying, "I really enjoyed myself. I'm really surprised. That was lots of fun." And one of our 'macho-guy' students saying, "We should do this more often." So the community was really enjoyed by all! We had fun playing

--> Pin the tail on the Bunny

--> Going through a difficult obstacle course with a spoon in your mouth and an egg balanced on top

--> An Easter egg hunt in the house with mini-chocolate eggs

--> An egg toss with raw eggs

--> Draw a face on a balloon (We drew names and whosever name you drew, you had to draw their face on the balloon)

Here are a few pictures. You can see more here, complements of Daniel Silliman.

And the most exciting news?! We have two new team members!!! Nathan and Pam Heald arrived on the field Monday, April 18th. It's been so wonderful having them here! We now have a full team and couldn't be more excited. The semester is in full swing now. Students are swarming campus, freaking out about their new classes and excited to have Unterwegs starting all our programs back up. It's gonna be a great semester!

The Faces of Unterwegs

Even if you don't like seeing a picture of yourself, it's always a good feeling to see your picture hanging on the wall. It means you're apart of a community. That you're involved. That you have friends. That someone else out there cares about you. Then there's me, Tyler and Daniel who all enjoy photography. Well, I'd say Daniel and I love photography. Tyler likes taking pictures. Yes, there's a difference :)

Since I've failed you completely on updating my time here in Germany over the last two months, I thought I'd summarize my time here with the students via pictures. We all know you'd prefer to look at pictures than to read paragraph after paragraph of everything I've done here. I'll get better at updating you on a more regular basis. I'm slowly learning how to live over here in Germany!

So, with that said, here are pictures I just printed to hang on the walls of the Unterweg's house. Some pictures are Tyler's, some are Daniel's and the rest are mine. You judge who took which picture. Friends, meet the faces of Unterwegs!