Awwww.. Bianca (my seatmate) and Anne (my roomate) at HP's. Love these girls. 

Friday night for the "Highschool" BBQ at HP Pluet's Farm. (btw, This was my 'skater wanabe/avril wanabe outfit. Heather was technically not in costume. And the shirt is Pamela's.) 

Really Now.

In the last 4 days I have been told, by 4 distinctly diverse people with an attitude of great shock that I am "very normal" or "so normal" (various things along those lines).
Tell me, how does that work? From one of those people in particular, I wasn't even sure if I wanted to take it as a compliment, but in the context they claimed it was a compliment.
The context was each of these friends finding out that I was homeschooled and homeschooled not just a year or two but my whole schooling experience. Heather was possibly the most shocked, and the funniest about it. Somehow last night Austin discovered it, too. I would have thought he would have known, but evidently not. (Well, we were out on a walk and were making things to talk about because we realized we didn't know anything about eachother. I guess knowing that I was homeschooled is pretty key.) Potter also didn't know, but but that's no suprise- he tends to not always know a whole lot. And that is said with the most love. Daniel also didn't know till today, but he also doesn't know that much about typical homeschoolers, being from the South of England.
Still enjoying the amusement from hearing people tell me I'm normal.
And then going on to describe that what they ment is that I'm socially not inept and that I'm cool and that I know how to speak my mind and hang out, etc.
So there's your funny thought for the day.

Yaaaaay

Thunder and Rain and Warm air!!!
Mmm smell the hot, wet asphalt.
Dance in the goodness.

Jelly and I didn't even have to think about whether or not we had something that matched - we wore these outfits in Munich *on accident*. Hehe.  

Austin and my bro, Trev: so so cute. You cant see it, but they both had on khaki shorts and flip flops, too. 

Monday was "twins day". Jimmy T and Sarah S (my next door neighbor) lookin' ever so cute in the matching Ciao Ciao shirts. 

Carin (from "near Stuttgart") and I wanted to be a little more obvious with the clashing. 

Tuesday was "clash day". Some people were pretty subtle about it. Here is Jimmy, putting his dreads up in a pony tail.  

For all you back home who don't recognise him, this is Rob Whittaker, Capernwray Hall's Principle. Yep, probably my favorite picture from all of Bible school. (Pammy and Anna Stewart are the other two mamas.) 

[Wednesday Hip Hop Day] Don't mess with North West ya'll: Me an Pam's new photo for our new Rap album. Holla! 

Are You Kidding Me

So, I was just about to post a complaint. It's 5 o'clock on a beautiful hot saturday afternoon, I went to probably the most fun bbq I've ever been to last night, came home, slept for 10 hours, went on an incredible/intense hike in the alps where at the summit we jumped into a lake then hiked through the snow (in our wet clothes) to a beyond gorgeous waterfall, stopped at a little hut where we drank fresh schatbeermilch (blackberry milk), and then hiked back to the vans in the valley (walley as our german speaking friends tend to say). Now I'm back at T-hof, tummy full of gelato and checking my email. How the flippin heck was I going start winging.
Not to mention that this week has been awesome: Rob lecturing, God teaching all of us so much (espeically through Rob), "Pants on Fire", sunshine, 3 outreaches, stick bread, friends. For goodness sake.
Janell and I were talking today and were trying to appreciate *everything* possible about where we are. And (this shows a little of how much I've been learning this week) it didn't make me sad that I was leaving. It just made me realize a little better how blessed I am. So appreciate wherever you are today. It's fun.
[btw, I was going to complain that I only got email from 2 people. Hehe.]

Amazing. [more to follow.. it's lock up now] 

The Dachstien.  

MaryKate and Ashley were there. Oo Oo!! (aka Melissa from Abbotsford and Dana my sister from Seattle) 

AHHHHH!!! Way too funny. 

Lovin it. I think this was Daveo (I mean, Obi Wan) and David (I mean Darth Vader) in their battle.  

My hunies: Sheena (sister from Reno), Courtnay and Anna Stewart. So hot. (Sheena isn't a stoner, but she sorta came as a flower child and yeah... hehe) 

Austin and his two dates. 

Star Wars Hollywood Premire night... Jelly and I getting ready to head to the "Hans Theatre" 

Internet Land

Well hello blog, it's been a while, hasn't it.
Sorry I've been neglecting you, but I've been *rather* busy -
With friendly heart things:
Social nights, Pants on Fire week, Ultimate Frisbee, Snowboarding
and with Bible heart things:
Freedom (as studdied in Galatians), women and childbearing (1 Timothy), outreach at a hospital in Ramsau, "The Pressure's Off", long talks.
I thought I didn't miss you; didn't miss your flashing orange boxes and connections to the outside world, your access to cartoons and news and the lives of my friends.
But now that I'm back, I see that I did miss you...
But here I am, and there you are, and no hard feelings.

This is the picture I wanted to send from 2080's night. Had to make sure ya'll could see how way hot Janell looked in the 80's outfit.  

I'm going snowboarding this weekend on the Dachstein. We have to rent equipment and this is what they have to ride here in Austria. JUST KIDDING!!! (Dang that would suck) 

I wasn't going to put up any pictures from Dachau, but it was a big part of our travel weekend that I couldn't leave out. It's a very sobering thing and I'm really glad we went. The gate says "Work will set you free". Dachau was specifically a labor camp more than just a death camp, and so the entrance gate greets the prisoners with a mocking statement of propaganda and a reminder of what lies ahead. 

This one is for all you Capers friends. Does that woman not look so much like Zarkan? We took this picture very descreetly, but it was a challenge so I couldnt get a better one. Dah.  

So one night we sorta got confused ... the S Bahn is a ridiculous maze. Our tour guide warned us about it (and also made lots of jokes regarding 70's time warps and Japanese tourists...) Jelly and I sort got a little lost once (*caughs* or .. twice). We decided to document the first occation. 

Mmmm Munich is *lovely*. We liked it (and don't you dare say "I've seen better" ;)) 

Jelly and I took a free walking tour of Munich on our first day. Our guide was from Ireland and kept us laughing. We got to see basically all the important stuff and got a huge history lesson. 

Hey - it's Munich!