http://www.summersinromania.com Behold Thou Shalt Call a Nation Which Thou Knewest Not Thu, 03 Jun 2010 17:59:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I have been handed a huge gift in the opportunity to return to Romania for a third summer. Katie will not be with me this time because she is currently working on her master's at Columbia in NYC. (We graduated from Lipscomb a month ago.) I wrestled with the decision ... http://www.summersinromania.com/2010/06/03/more-than-i-could-ever-comprehend/ Today I have officially been home for two weeks. That is hard to believe. I feel like I have been home for much longer, actually. Adjusting to being back in the States has had it's ups and downs, but for the most part, I thank God for how easy it's ... http://www.summersinromania.com/2009/08/07/the-best-is-yet-to-come/ I am home in Tennessee now. After two long days of travel, and next to no sleep, I have finally made it to my destination. I got in Friday night around 9:00, and finally got a decent amount of sleep last night. I think my jet lag is going to ... http://www.summersinromania.com/2009/07/26/home/ Katie and I are busily trying to wrap this trip up here in Reghin. We've been packing, doing laundry..LOTS of laundry:), and trying to spend as much time with our friends as possible. It is still a little surreal to think about going home in 6 days, but we really ... http://www.summersinromania.com/2009/07/18/day-56-58-making-the-rounds/ We arrived back from camp in Sibiu this afternoon. I think we are all exhausted and a little relieved that camp is over haha. It was so much more work than I expected. Obviously, I knew it wasn't going to be a walk in the park, but I thought after ... http://www.summersinromania.com/2009/07/15/day-48-55-gypsy-camp/ Aunt Bonnie is here!! She got in Sunday night, but unfortunately, all of her bags did not get into this country with her. Her suitcase with all of her clothes and a few camp supplies was stuck somewhere in Atlanta. It is supposed to come this morning(Wednesday), so please keep ... http://www.summersinromania.com/2009/07/07/day-45-47-how-deep-the-fathers-love-for-us/ Yesterday was Independence day in America. I've been really homesick ever since we got back from Vienna. I think Katie put it well when she said, "Going to Vienna was like going to the West, and now we're back in the East here in Romania." I loved our trip so ... http://www.summersinromania.com/2009/07/05/day-43-and-44-the-fourth-of-july-romanian-style/ Wow. It has been a long time since I blogged. I apologize. We were without internet for a couple of days at the beginning of last week, and then we went to Budapest and Vienna, so I really had no chance to write.I'll try to sum up our couple of ... http://www.summersinromania.com/2009/07/05/day-37-42-no-internet-and-a-holiday-in-europe/ We went to a wedding yesterday!! Katie and I were wedding crashers. We had actually met the groom once before in the church at Reghin and we knew his brother from the Reghin church, but we had never met the bride. So we really didn't know the couple at all. ... http://www.summersinromania.com/2009/06/28/day-35-and-36-wedding-crashers/ Attila is really interested in starting a ministry with some of the children from Peris, that came to our English classes in Gornesti, so we spent Thursday afternoon with them playing soccer and English games. We mainly are just establishing relationships with them right now because although we had ... http://www.summersinromania.com/2009/06/28/day-33-and-34-friends-baratok-prieteni/