by jo | Feb 21, 2009 | Everyday Stories
This past weekend I went to Munich with a group of friends. (Awesome discovery: In Germany you can buy weekend train tickets for a group. You get one ticket per 5 people, and the ticket only costs 35 Euro, so like 7 Euro each, and you can go anywhere in Germany on...
by jo | Feb 21, 2009 | Everyday Stories
In class the other day we watched a film on the life of St. Francis of Assisi. The film itself was not great, and it was done pretty cheesily… but the story of Francis’ life was actually pretty resounding. Now, I don’t want to get all preachy or...
by jo | Feb 3, 2009 | Everyday Stories
So today at lunch the meal they served was sausage… big fatty german sausages. I was totally just going to pass up the opportunity to try this “cultural gem”… but then my buddy Victor gave me a hard enough time about “Why put off till...
by jo | Feb 1, 2009 | Everyday Stories
Today right after church it began snowing! I have obviously been to the know before in my life. But I’ve only been in the snow a few times where it’s been currently snowing for more than a few minutes… So i got really excited about it. I ran...
by jo | Feb 1, 2009 | Everyday Stories
Today we had the first chapel session here at EuNC. I had heard that they were just starting a 4 wk chapel series themed off of Henry Nouwin’s book “With Burning Hearts”, and this first chapel service was about mourning. I had heard this and...
by jo | Feb 1, 2009 | Everyday Stories
On monday the entire school (plus all the faculty from all the different EuNC learning centers all across Europe who were here for a conference) went to the Alps for a play day in the snow. A few people snowboarded/skied, but the rest of us got “lift...