Sunday, August 8, 2010

Homeward Bound (Almost)

We are currently back in Prague in the pension we stayed at last week. We have had an excellent, fantabulous, incredibulous, awesidble week (yeah, we added words to the English dictionary). Last night we stayed at some families homes last night; they were REALLY hospitable! They fed us until we were about to burst (yeah, we're suffering for Jesus here). To update you on the last few days of camp:

On Wednesday we had classes in the morning, lunch, and then saw a castle that was about 45 minutes away from the camp. The grounds of the castle were pretty cool; the tour was pointless but the park was nice. And we saw horses. After the castle we came back and had dinner. Then we had a wonderful campfire with all the students, roasting sausages and s'mores. Yum!

On Thursday we had our devotions, breakfast, classes, lunch, then our skit practice (the Everything skit with the Lifehouse song). After skit practice we had discussion time and then dinner and the super long evening program. It started out with Brian and Jill talking about child-rearing. After they we're done, we performed the skit; the reaction was incredibly awesome, which included a long applause and many teary eyes. It was an amazing experience! To God be all the glory!

On Friday we had our devotions, breakfast, and classes which were devoted more to our funny skits than to English. After classes and lunch we cleaned and packed, had a discussion that went from 4:30 to 6:15 (we were starving afterward!). After dinner we had our evening program which is when each of the classes performed their hilarious skits (in English of course). We got our gifts from the church (a shirt, a card, and some candy), and enjoyed some fellowship time with the campers as it was our last night with them.

Yesterday morning we left the hotel and headed to our respective family hosts. Michael and Chris went to Misha and Thomash's. The girls stayed at Jana's home and were entertained by her daughter Martina. Asa and Kevin stayed at Jirka's and Jana's house. We were all treated EXTREMELY well and fed too much. Most of us got a good night's sleep and then we went to church this morning. It was a special service for the church because of the English camp week. Brian gave a great sermon on joy, which was a common topic of discussion during the week. After church we enjoyed snacks and refreshments with everyone, said a few goodbye's and headed to lunch with nearly everyone in the town square. It was the first authentic Czech meal for some. It was delicious! After lunch we hung out outside the restaurant while waiting for our shuttle van to Prague. After a long, tearful goodbye with our friends and brothers and sisters in Christ, we headed back to Prague with the same crazy bus driver. But it wasn't as bad as last time. We came back to Pension Praha, and then went to dinner with the Dagen's. We had subway and KFC :). Then we met up with Tomas, and split up. Asa, Kevin, Chris, and Tomas went off to explore more of Prague. Brian and Jill went with the girls and Michael. The girls went shopping. Brian and Michael had a manly conversation over coffee. The girls came back, then we headed back to the Pension.

Tomorrow we head out at 8:30 in the morning. Our flight is at 11:00. We should be back in LAX at 7:00 pm Monday night. We may be back in Atascadero by 1:00 am (for those of us picking us up, fyi). Can't wait to see you all again and share the amazing stories that happened. Love you all, see you sometime this week!

Mandee, Michael and Lizi for the team.

Quotes of the week:

Martina, after the girls showed her John Mayer: "I like his voice; it's like ice cream. It's smooth and you can never get enough."

Kevin: "So last night I had a cherry cordial, and then I found out it had brandy in it. So, sorry Michael, but I accidentally drank some alcohol."
Michael: "It's OK Kevin. You don't need my forgiveness. You need God's forgiveness."

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