SO MUCH EXCITEMENT WE’RE GUNNA BURST

People, you have no idea what has just happened to us.

So it’s Tuesday and we started on our normal Tuesday rounds of going to Croatian in the morning then going to the childrens home to help them with english, doing all of this before lunch.

Darko, our pastor, said that he was going to take us to a disabled home where some of the adult disabled people go. So we were like YES! STUFF TO DO! So we went along thinking that we would have loads to do and help with, and when we arrived no one spoke English, and Darko was busy talking away saying our names, where were from and how old we were. He then said to us ‘Okay girls, she will take you home at half 4. Use your initative’ then he left. we were like, umm, HI! WHAT DO WE DO! totally lost and abanonded with no one speaking a word of english we decided to sit there and try and make conversation with the little croatian that we know. The whole time, all 3 of us were praying thinking that God must have something better in store for us, we felt totally and utterly useless there. So we were happy when half 4 reached us, and we got into the ladys car. She then said ‘cava’ a few times (Coffee!!) and we were like… umm okay then?! So we went to her house and sat in her back garden and started drinking coffee. She kept on talking to us in croatian saying that her son spoke a little bit of English. When he came down, he was helpful but still not much conversation was brewing. Soon after she rang another lady who was an Enghlish teacher at one of the schools. She was really cool, and started some good conversation… THEN her son came along and he was absolutly mental at Engilsh, he knew everything where most places were in England, and he was realllly nice. We decided that he’s going to take us to go visit a zoo… which basically means a man has a house and has a tiger in his back garden!! He’s also going to give us a tour of Brod a little more. 
Then his dad came along and said to us ‘Are all English girls so pretty?’ bless him. ANYWHO soon after a few cups of coffee later another english teaching lady came along and she was amazing. We explained who we were and why we were here, and then we said, if you can use us in any way within your classrooms that would be brilliant. She turned around and then said ‘girls, I’m going to make you busy, you girls are the cherry on top of a cake’. THIS IS WHAT WE HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR! So she said that we will go in and have a look around the school that she works in and meet the principle, then we may be able to even do our own English lessons in school! This is mental. Like actually amazing. Through one person who doesn’t speak any English and we all thought that we were going to fail at the disabled place, we have made many more contacts, and soooo many more opportunities through a few people. We have also been invtied to their place for a BBQ on saturday!

Were totally dead excited about what has just happened. Like, everything God has been building us up to do, has started to brew into something more exciting and more brilliant. Out of probably one of our worst moments here, has brewed the best thing that could have possibly happened to us. It’s nuts. Absolutely and utterly mad, but so flippin incredible to!

@1 year ago
#Imogen