Today has been a pretty busy day!

After we woke up after another stupidly hot night, the American girl’s went off to their croatian class, hannah went for a quick walk and I finally sorted out the mishap with UCAS again! Anywho, we did our morning shop and the moved the American girls into their new apartment! if you’ve been to Croatia, you will know where Rupa bar is, they live on top of there! It’s a dead scary but cool apartment with big windows and a little bit of it is actually outside, but inside. We then headed to Charlie and Barbs because they have decided to move to Gradiska. Bing the lovely people we are we went over to help Barb with the cleaning. Hannah hoovered like everywhere, and i spent like an hour in the bathroom cleaning it, for some odd reason. I like cleaning bathrooms. 

After a sweaty time there to, and about 4 mossie bites later we came back to the apartment to start doing the community meal where Emily, Amanda (the american girls) garret and Kim came over and Hannah made the best ever sweet and sour chicken ever! we didn’t even need to use sauce from like a bottle, hannah made it totally from scratch! it was amazing, we then had muffins for puds and 2 very very very competitive games of rapidough of which hannah and i won one and then garret and hannah one the next. mental!

they have all elft now, and i’m still pretty shattered watching blue crush on TV.

There is now only 3 weeks and 3 days until summer mission starts which is totally exciting!! We’ve already started drawing and sorting out the activities for the kids klub.

woopwoopwoopwoop.

Is becoming a lovely place again.

Today we have had amazing weather, clear blue skies with temps of 35 degrees + BEAUTIFUL!

Today we’ve had a really good day, skype with Caroline to sort out when the summer mission people come out witht he kids klubs and everything. Then met up with Garret for ice-cream because he’s back from America, and talking about the 2 american edge girls coming down on friday, then met up with Matej for some more coffee and talks on politics and religion. Mental. So now it”s 20 past 5 and soon we’ll get ready for some dinner, then out to hang some posters about!

WHOS EXCITED?!

I am for sure, so much to do, more people to meet and amazing weather to keep it all going :)

I just hope those ruddy mossies stay away and the river goes down.

departingmoo:

HELLO SUNSHINE!

Croatia, today i will sit on your so called ‘beach’ with a book, sunglasses, lunch and legs out.

You shall tan me so i can win the many tanning competitions i have put my self up against.

Oh I am in a very good mood today

Just sent off my first few emails to some churches for my placement. I’m scared and excited and extremely nervous.

Fishponds email doesn’t work, no other way of contacting them, arrgh.

Man, who thought that an email could do this to you!?

But apart from sending off like 4 emails, i’m still looking for some churches in and around the Bristol area, so if you know any good ones, please message me and let me know the details so i can send them one to!

I need to keep my options open, yes?

<from left to right: David, Belinda, Sofija, Hannah, Me and Chez with a Bulgarian Flag>

So Hannah and I with Chez gallivanted off to another country a few days ago (which actually all we had to do was walk 30mins across a bridge and then catch a 2 hour bus) to Banja Luka.

We went so that we could make some initial contact with some others out there (David and Belinda) as when the Bless summer missioners come out were planning on sending like 4 to 5 people out there for a kids klub. 

This initial contact was amazing, like both David and Belinda and amazing hosts, people, everything! Fun loving bunch of people who are really working from the heart. 

So we met some other Bosnian people there and had our own little mini tour of the place which was rally good to know about some of the history. One of the funny things though it just seemed like almost a replica of what we have here in Brod:

Croatia                                            Banja Luka

Betsy                                      Belinda

Garret                                     David

Small church                            Small church

Fort                                        Fort

Big River                                  Big River

Garret lives way up some           David also lives way up some apartment
apartment 

ha. it was pretty funny.

But over all Hannah and I came back with some major buzz from that place it’s amazing!! Like i think you have to be there, see it and almost experience it to understand.

Anywho. It was amazing. Were already planning on going back maybe the end of this month or the beginning of the next so we maybe do some planning and things :)

Also. you can check out Belinda’s blog to see what she gets up to in Banja Luka