the start of spring school

hello all
spring school is starting soon, and than im coming home YEA!!!!! even though im super excited to be home im going to miss Europe a lot. i have left england for the last time, and surprisingly i miss it. but im looking forward to austra a lot i have heard a lot of good things about it.

as you know i was snowboarding in the swiss alps for a week and i am don with that now......oh my goodness, it was amazing the snow was good and so was the view. Libbey and i stayed in this little town called latterbrunnin and it looked like a Heidi town it was so quaint.

Bri's Graduation

Bri sent a picture so thought I [Mom] would share...

the last wekk of school

ok so i have about 5 days left of school, and is soooo excited to travel with Libbey, and is super stoked to be working with kids again......... and then going SNOWBOARDING Yea!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! but im not so excite about the packing part, thats a little stressful.

so anyways this will probably be my last blog for a while, cuz with travling and all im thinking that it might be hard to keep up on it but il try really hard

talk to you soon
bri

hello

well school in england is almost done we only have like 9 days left of school, than im going traveling around im stoping in london for a day or two than flying to ireland for a week than im working at the school with the children for two weeks and then im going to switzerland for 5 days and going snowboarding so im excited for that. im sad that school is comming to an end and that i probably wont see a lot of the people ever again but im also excited to travel around and meet new peoople.

three days ago or so we got back from our ten day out reach, and it was amazing god did so many amazing things everyone liked the programs that we put on, and paul(a boy on my team) got 7-10 year olds to ask really deep thoelogical questions it was just amazing to see god work. it was a real encouragemant to be there witnessing it and taking part in it. we went to a little town out side of manchester called disley, its where the pimbberly house is...... and that is where mr. darcy lived if anyone watched pride and prejustice. so thats my little clam to fam.
well untill next time
bri

update

so here i sit today in an empty castle, everyone else is off to Liverpool for the day and into the night. It is really quit when no one is around, but good because you don't get many opportunities to be alone here, so i am rather enjoying it.

so i am playing soccer again on the girls soccer team with the school, and our first game is the 23rd of February. i super excited for it and we have a good chance of winning. outreach is coming up fast and we have a lot of planning to do. but it should be good i cant wait.

what else............ um thats really about it not a whole lot has been happening lectures have been just prep for outreach, so it was a really easy week

starting tonight at midnight we have an i pod, dvd anything electronic fast for a week, so thats cool, people we be more social which is good.

hello

ok so i know that it has been a while since my last blog, but nothing really has happened lately, so this is going to be about what i have been studying and learning over here.
we just recently ended a study on 1 Samuel, and that book has been taught many times while i have been here, and particularly the topic of David has come up a lot as well, but this time it was different, this time it was more about the other people, like David's mother, and Saul, and Samuel, inf act he didn't even talk about David at all, so that was nice. and we have a test on 1 Corinthians tis week so that should be fun......
we are getting ready to go on our ten day outreach, and basically what we do is we get assigned to these places around here, and we go and do what ever the church needs us to do for ten days. im going to a church called Dissly baptist church in Manchester, and i don' t know what i am doing yet but that is why we go down for a weekend and find out, so that is what we are doing this weekend is finding out what we are going t be doing exactly.
and ya thats about it, i am really enjoying reading psalms right now its probably one of my favorite books so far. and the weather is still rainy, and windy there is never a shortage of the two, we have pond that weren't there when i first came, so that makes the soccer pitch completely unusable, oh and our water hasn't been working really god lately well for the past two days it hasn't been running, well more like hasn't been coming out of the taps. so that has been cruddy but other than that everything is going well, Libbey and i have finalized our travel plans so im less stressed.
travel:
Libbey and i are going to go down to London and meet her mom there and travel around London for a few days then the three of us are going to fly up to Ireland and spend a couple of days up there, then Libbey and i are coming back to the school and working for two weeks then we are flying down to Switzerland and going snowboarding for a week, then we are going to go down to the school in austra where we will spend the spring. i cant wait its going to be a blast.
until next time

END OF NOVEBER

Now that the end of November is coming and I have only 17 more days until I come home, I decided that I should update you a little.

As the majority of people know who read this it was my birthday this month and I just wanted to say thank you for all of the cards and packages that I got, it meant a lot to me.

I had a birthday party for my birthday, and me and some of my friends went out to dinner and a movie on the Saturday the 17^th, because we can't go anywhere on Sunday which was the actually the day of my birthday, we went to this little Italian place called abella Italia, and I had some pizza, and some taramousue desert, then we went to see “American Gangster”, and it was really good I got lots of pictures.

Then we had family night last Friday…….. and that is when our “families” get together and do something as a family (other people from the school, with staff members as parents)…………. But our parents had been gone for three weeks so we had no parents for family night so we had to join another family, and we joined this family and there dad was German (that is important to the story) and we played sardines (which is were one person hides and everyone else tries to find that one person, and when they do they also have to hide with that person) and we played around the castle on the main floor, and one person hid in the stables(which you weren’t allowed to go and hide in) but like half of the people playing found him and we were just hanging out and got really bored so we decided to have a pillow fight with the couch cushions and pillows, so we had a pillow fight, then we wanted to make a fort, so we went into the lounge and used all of the furniture(which there is 6 small tables, 8 couches, and like 20-25 chairs) including cushions, and we took some of the sheets from the laundry and made this fort (it was massive) it had three sitting rooms, and 3 tunnels it was amazing. But then the dad, Lukas wasn’t too pleased with our amazing fort, and he was getting mad and after we finished he blew up and kick in one of the chairs, and yelled at us in German, so we took it down, and went in and watched the “wedding singer”.

Then on Sunday the school had set up and American flag football game for us students to play, and I played in that, but it had rained the week before and at night, so the field was very muddy, and then we decided to play tackle football, but only if the girls wanted to, so we played tackle football for a little bit, then after the game died down we decided to have a mud fight, so we did that for maybe a half an hour, and that was super fun, I got so muddy, I stained my nice white shirt, and I had mud everywhere, you have to see a picture I was covered in mud. It was pretty much the most amazing thing ever. The only bad thing is that we completely ruined the football pitch

Oh and then some of the boys decided t play a prank on one of the most up tight guys here, and he is very anal about his stuff and he is very cocky, so they took his bed, his mattress and his baskets of clothes and his other stuff and remade his room in stables down stairs. And then when he found out where his bed was, he came down and found his bed, he was really, really mad, and he said the f- word and broke a bench that was out side. It was really mean but funny.

This last weekend we went to the Trafered Center, which is a huge mall so I got lots of Christmas shopping done. This mall is the hugest thing ever, it’s maybe double the size of the Clackamas mall, and it could fit the Lloyd center and Washington Square together in it. The food court is made to look like the French quarter of New Orleans, and it is, also made to look like the food deck on a cruse ship, and it had a dj and a dance floor and a little pool as well, and the mall had a movie theatre, a laser tag place, and an arcade in it too. It was huge.

Until next time

bri