One month. That’s how long I’ve been gone, though it feels like much longer…in a good way. I already feel pretty settled and comfortable living in Kosice and finding my way around the city. Our apartment is great, even greater now that we finally have internet! I’m so thankful we have a place we love and can relax in! I’ll post pictures soon.
In an attempt to get the blog up-to-date, I’ll give the short version of the past month. I spent August 14th to 20th in Copper Mountain, Colorado with other STINTers (short term international) about to be sent out over the whole world. I think there were 20-25 different nations represented. It was a great time of encouragement in the Word, learning to adapt to a new culture, and bonding with my team.
We arrived in Kosice on August 21st after 20 something hours of traveling. We spent the first week getting settled–cleaning and making the apartment “ours”, buying tram/bus passes, grocery shopping, exploring the city, etc.
Ministry wise we’ve been doing a lot of planning for the upcoming semester. Our team went to freshman orientations on three campuses last week. We entered students in a drawing to win a free ipod for filling out a survey of campus activities they’d be interested in participating in. We got over 100 contacts, which is awesome!
We’ve taken a few day trips to places around Kosice–two weeks ago to Budapest, and yesterday to a little village called Spis Pohradie to see ruins of a castle.
Students start school this week so things will really get busy the next few weeks! I’m excited and ready to begin meeting students!
