Day 8 Friday, June 4th 2010

Thank goodness it's Friday! Actually that's not really how I'm feeling today. Although it's been a great day, it's not a normal Friday...you see at home I always rejoice on Fridays because I get to put another 42.5 hour work week behind me and head for 2 days off in a row! Awesome!!! But here my work is different, in an awesome way...although I have been working pretty hard here, I get so much gratification from what I'm doing that I don't really long for days off in the same way. I've only been here a week however, and I know that things might change after I've been doing this type of work for a while. I guess we'll just have to see how it ends up! Anyway, I slept in again today and didn't attend BRTS. :-/ After I got up, I took a shower and ate some breakfast. Then I played my guitar for a while, learning a couple new songs and practicing. I was interrupted by Becky who offered to let me go to the store with her. (She does this to help me get ready for going on my own.) We walked to Rimi which is the closest grocery store to Carl and Becky's apartment. The store was similar to Prisma where I went earlier this week. Once we were back home I biked over to BRTS where I met Martins to get my camera from him. (I accidentally left it with him yesterday). Then I biked back to the apartment where I hung out for a little bit and ate some supper. After supper I met Martins at the park around 7:30 (or 19:30 because they always use military time here). We both rode around on bikes looking for spots where teenagers were hanging out, because we would like to start a second park outreach ministry for teens at a different location. We did indeed find a second spot and it's actually nicer than the first location! We will continue our original outreach on Tuesdays, but we will also try this new spot on Thursdays. I'm really excicited to see how this turns out because this park is far enough from the other that we can hopefully get some new kids coming from a different part of town. After that I headed back home and ate a little supper. Now I'm on the computer till I hit the sack...

P.S. The picture above was taken yesterday. I forgot to mention that Janis and Martins insisted that I eat some of this clover...it wasn't bad, I ate a few of them, basically they taste like grapes, yumm!