training is ok. i still wish i didnt have to be here but its not miserable. i'm finding friendship in unexpected places and in people that i had previously written off. shaun and i have an intern team and were pretty exclusive (probably because were the only ones) i have a lot of fun with him. here is a picture.

last night i had some girls over for mac and cheese and flight of the conchords, it was such a good night with them. God is so good.
i leave tomorrow after our football game (our meaning the bitburg barons) for a week of tranining/school. i dont want to go. i'm sure it will be fine once i'm there but i really want to be here with kids and friends for halloween. o'well. i dont know if i'll have internet but if i do i'll try to update on all the thrilling things i should be learning (part sarcastic, part truth).

this last week has been insane, so good and so full. first off the most exciting news i will tell you, last tuesday (like the 16th) after glow in the dark club, one of the girls that i'm closest to gave her life back to Christ. she would have called herself a Chrisitan prior to that but her life reflected something entirely different. when she told me about what had happened you could just see the change in her, Christ was so clearly reflected on her face, it was incredible. God is moving here and its so fun that He's allowing me to be a part of what He's doing. wednesday and thursday were also quite full however not many details worth noting...actually thats not true. ha. so i had my friends phil and troy (D) over for dinner and because i dont have furniture we had to sit on the floor of my living room to eat, it was kind of comical. then we went to the sweet park by my house and i we were spinning so fast on this tea cup thing that i was sick and dizzy for an entire day. friday was transformers night at the studio (where we hold club), we had 21 different kinds of popcorn including, pb &j, smores, salsa, strawberry and cajun. i dressed up as a transformer and had a blast just hanging out with kids. saturday i went to my friend shauns house and played halo 3 with a bunch of people and discovered i suck at halo, i had 0 kills in the first three games (however last night when we were playing again after church i got 2 kills so i'm improving). after halo and breakfast we (sarah, phil, jared and i) went to three really cool castles and explored, it was a good day. the next morning i had some people over for breakfast (we sat on my floor and ate lucky charms...classy, i know) then we went and checked out a new church, i liked it a lot and its just down the street from my house so thats an added bonus. then we played at the park again, carved pumpkins, went to church, had fellowship dinner and played more halo 3. i dont know why i told you all that but i thought it might be a nice contrast to some of my earlier blogs where i was struggling so much. dont get me wrong, i still have good days and bad days it just seems like there have been less and less bad days.

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I'm at my friend D's house and he helped me figure out how to get videos i edited posted to you tube so here is our sept 07 high school club beyond video, i edited it and we showed it at our first club in october, were planning on making it a monthly thing so enjoy...

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i had an incredible weekend. friday bitburg high school had its powder puff and pep rally, i finally felt like i know enough kids that i'm not standing around awkwardly wondering who i should talk to. then saturday was the homecoming game, the barons won by one it was such an intense game, the kids i was sitting with were freaking out the entire time, it was pretty funny (well not for them, they were quite stressed). then that evening i went and hung out with some girls while they got ready for the dance and then i ended up chaperoning the dance. it was so fun, i got to be the photographer so i just walked around all night taking pictures of kids and hanging out, it was awesome. as a side note the dance was unlike any dance ive ever been to, all of the dancing was relatively clean (there was only like two songs that a couple kids freaked to). at a couple points almost the entire school busted into synchronized dance moves and the kids actually knew how to dance. they danced to hip hop, salsa and country, i was so impressed. then sunday i moved out of heidi's and into my own place, its kind of weird living on my own but hopefully i will be a good thing. then after church i went bowling with some of my guy friends and i kicked their butts by bowling a 119, i'm never that good, but it was pretty awesome. so that was my weekend.

so yesterday after spending four hours at ikea i was driving to my casa and there were cows crossing the street, i guess thats how you know you live in the country. then my friend phil and i spent four hours putting together a diy closet with only a monkey wrech, today i bought some tools.
tonight is powder puff and tomorrow is the homecoming game and dance, it should be a fun weekend with kids.
oh, and this is the most recent picture of molly...

it was quite the weekend.
so on thursday i went to this sweet park with my high school jessilyn, it was really good. it was fun just to spend time with her and get to know her a little better (she is one of the girls i met at the football game) and it was also cool that God provided me with a sweet park by my new house because of how much i loved the park by my house in dublin. i'm learning more and more that God wants to romance us in the details, He knows the desires of my heart and delights in seeing my excitement when He provides for them. the picture is of jessilyn on the zipline, the zipline is crazy because at the end the top of the rope stops but you keep going, i ended up completely horizontal with the ground, it was awesome.
after the park molly about near exploded so jens dad came to rescue me and we left for the weekend. it was really cool that they allowed me to crash their family vacation. we went to oktober fest on friday and rode rides and explored munich, it was kind of like the alameda county fair only like 100 times bigger and these huge halls where people can go in and get liters of beer. it was cool to see it all. then on sat we went to this town where the passion of christ play happens every ten years, it was fun just to walk around the town. on sunday we went to newschwanstein and this other castle next to it, it was beautiful on the outside and i had tons of fun exploring the area around it but i wasnt that impressed with the inside of the castle. then yesterday we went to this other palace and it was beautiful, it was where the king that built neuschwanstein spent most of his life living, it was rad, it even had this sweet cave/grotto/concert hall thing. so that was my weekend with the kirk family. it is such a blessing to have a family that cares for me so well.
this is the kirk family

spain was good. the people that i was nervous about spending a weekend with were totally fine. we mostly hung out, relaxed, ate and walked around (most of our time was spent eating or walking). i had some good conversations and fell in love with spanish culture. overall the trip was not the best trip i've ever been on but it was good, and for a free trip who can complain (it was technically a work trip, thats why it was free).