Hey you all!!

I hope ya'll had a good 4th! We did! Had a bonfire, and smores, and music, and tons of fun!


Smores!





One of our teachers, Jeff, roasting a marshmellow.







It was a fun time, for sure!

Yesterday we had turn around, fun stuff. Turn around is, well, cleaning, the whole entire castle, almost everybody gets in on it. I was with a couple of our teachers, Arpi and Jeff, then one of the guys here for SOS (summer of service) and one of the ladies who works at the desk. We cleaned 4 rooms, the pillar room, where we have devotionals and such, the hungarian room, or ping pong room, the corner room (a room between the hungarian room and pillar room) and then up here at the coffee shop. It really wasn't that hard. And it got done pretty quickly.

I don't really remember what all I did that afternoon.... That evening I watched a majorly intense football game though, it was crazy. It started out with only four Americans out playing, then went down to three, and then went down to two. The rest were Europeans. It was pretty intense, let me tell ya. I wanted to play pretty badly, but I think I would have been murdered. I'm not good at all, so I will just wait and play when its just us AVFL'ers. I sat down with some of the girls (and a sick german guy) and had a spot of tea. Seriously, I felt so... European.

Today we have absolutely nothing to do, at all. They don't have church service on Sunday, they have it Thursday night. So today is completely free. I don't really know what to do. I could swim, but I'm not sure I really want to... hm.

You want to know what I have discovered whilst being here? American's are really, really loud. I mean I kind of knew we were loud. But it wasn't until I came here that I realized just how loud we are... I mean seriously. They told us when we came, that whenever we go somewhere and are about to walk into a room or something, not to say anything until you hear what the noise level is, and then just make your voice to match it. So you don't burst into a room being all loud, and get stared at by... europeans. Its funny.
I always laugh at stuff we do here, we're just such americans. Its funny. We all laugh about the fact that we call football, football. It doesn't even involve the foot, why don't we just call soccer what is should be called, football. And then call football something else? I guess we just have to be different are something.

Oh, and my name here is pronouced like, Shara. Yep, its pretty cool sounding. So me and the other Sara go around calling each other Shara.

Its been a crazy couple of weeks. For sure. I am feeling kind of homesick today. But the Lord is so faithful, and He gives comfort. He has just opened up my eyes to so much while being here. I have learned actually how to do things. I guess it would be called application. Like prayer, being here has showed me just how incredible, and powerful prayer is. I guess I kind of knew it my head, but not in my heart... ya know? I just realized how much I didn't pray before. And now that is something I am growing in, though I still have a long way to go. Its just been great getting together and praying. A few days before the disabled conference came, a few of us got together and just prayed for it, and for some other stuff that was going on. It was just great to get together and do that, and just to be able to lift each other up too.

And something else too is just listening. I know we sometimes just don't listen. We spend all our time sitting there talking to God, which is great to do, but its not just about talking. Its about listening too.

That is one thing that is such a main focus in pretty much every class, pray, listen, obey, trust. In our Nehemiah class there was one part that says
Then the King said to me, "what do you request?" so I prayed to the God in heaven.
This is in chapter one, and its where Nehemiah makes his request to the king to go to Jerusalem to rebuild the wall. But anyway, he just stopped and prayed. Do we do that? I know I don't a lot of times, I jump into a lot of things without going before the Lord and praying. And it also says at the first of the chapter that when he heard the wall had been destroyed, and its gates burned that he sat down, wept mourned, fasted and prayed to God. We just need to go to God and cry out to Him, and like I said before, listen too. I cannot stress it enough, pray continually. Take EVERYTHING before Him. ANd when you listen, take heed to what you hear.


Well, I am going to leave you with something one of our teachers said

Bloom where you are planted.

Basically, whenever you get restless where you are, and want to go someplace else, think you need to go someplace else. Just bloom where you are planted, do things where you're at now :]

Blessings,
Sara
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This is NIKKI!!! :]

ok guys. From the start just lettin ya know this is NIKKI!!! I'm sara's amazing dorm room buddy. Wellll, I'm just here writin my life away. Also talking to Sara's best frannn! Were here in HUngary and having buckets and buckets of water and bread filled fun. It's about 11:15 ish now and whatever time it is wherever you homies are.
:] i love smileys. they're funnn! :] :[ <- not a fun smiley. :P ;] :) you can even do circulars!!!! ok. so about the trip. first, some hungarian. yo=good hallo=hello yo neggalt=good something or another. some part of the day szia=hey [for the young nikki=amazing oh wait. thats not hungarian! thats just fact! haha just kidding. im not THAT full of myself. am i? youll never know!! well at the moment im watching a moth fly towards a light and were trying to teach anderosh [have no clue how to spell it but thats how it sounds] some english. well, i dont think i should hold you guys up that much. taking ur sweet time out of ur sweet day to read this sweet blog from a freakin sweet person! ok. well enjoy ur day [or night] or whatever it is.

peace out girl scouts.
nikki!!!

So today... we had our Nehemiah class with our British teacher Mark, and Effective Bible Study with Jeremy. Then after dinner and such, the guys went off and did something, and all of us girls met up with some of the older ladies in in quiet room, one of our classrooms. A couple of the girls shared testimonies, and then we talked a lot about purity, broke into small groups and talked some more. Then, we went to one of the ladies houses, and made... these awesome things. They have a name, I have no clue how to spell it. They are kind of like a pancake, or actually more like a torillia, cause they are really thin, and then you put like, chocolate, or jelly, or peanut butter... or apples, or whatever on them, roll them up, and consume them. They are SO good. So it was a fun afternoon, and great time of fellowship, and just getting to know each other.

This evening we had a game with the disabled kids. We each paired up with one, and then we had a water balloon, and a plate full of whipping cream, and herseys chocolate on top. One of us would hold up the plate to the other person, and they had to stick our whole face in the plate and eat the whipping cream, and then the one who had to eat the whipping cream got to hit the other person with the water balloon. I got to eat the whipping cream... it was... ummmm.. interesting. Those of us who had eaten the whipping cream had it ALL over our faces. Somebody took pictures, maybe I can get them. It was funny.

After that, I took a short dip in the pool. Then went running with the other Sara, and another girl Sam, we ran a little over a mile, then walked a mile, and then went and worked out in the weight room. And yes, I am being serious. I just got out of the shower, and I feel... good actually, tired, but good. I think I will sleep good tonight. That is actually where I am going now, since there is nobody on Skype to talk too. So until next time, szia!

Here is one picture of the place that is my home for six weeks. I will have more later, whenever I am able to put the pictures from my camera on here, then I can just give you a whole tour of the place!


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Hello my friends!!... and family :)

Um, ok. Yesterday. We had... classes. And then, that afternoon we had, Outdoor activites with Dave. We have those every Monday. We had to do a triathilon... or however its spelled. We were broken up into four groups. First we had to shoot 10 balls into the basketball hoop, then from there we had to run around the walking path thing that goes all the way around the castle, that is almost a stinkin' mile long, from there we had to swim in the pool, and then, sing a song. Our teams song, that we only had like 2 minutes to make up. It was quite interesting, let me tell ya. Our team came in last... yeah, oh well. It wore me out, for sure.

Today we had morning classes, afternoon to do whatever. I went into Vajta with some of the girls, and went to the ABC grocerie store. It was quite fun, because we were going to make brownies (from a box) for a thing we had tonight (explain later) so we needed eggs and veggie oil. We found the eggs, but the oil we found had a sunflower on it. So we were like, ok its sunflower oil. And we didn't know if that would work or not... so, we tried to ask the lady if they had veggie oil. It was hilarious. First, they picked up the sunflower oil, picked up some tomatoes, and put them together. Then the lady though we needed ketchup, we said no. So then Caroline ran over to where the veggies where and did a huge circle with her arm around them, and pointed to the oil. It was the funniest thing ever, here were 4 American girls who didn't speak a lick of Hungarian, trying to buy veggie oil. It was great, well we finally decided to get the sunflower oil, and it all ended up being ok.

Then we came home and made the brownies. And then had another class at 4:30, then got ready for the evening events. See, the disabled conference is here, and so tonight we put together a thing, where we'd do worship, a drama, one of the guys would share from the Word, then share his testimony. There were 3 people who did worship, and they did a great job, and then 6 of us did a drama. It was about getting trapped in sin, I think somebody took a video of it, so I will try and put it up sometime. Its a really neat drama. The rest of the night was awesome.

So now I sit here, and I must go to bed now. Coffee shop is about to close! so no pictures :( I still haven't found my USB cord either... ho hum. So, g'night to all of you! are actually, I will just say, good day.