Run Run Run

I made it to 107 of 127 in Paris picture posts, I believe- this means I have 80 pictures that are just going to have to wait. Until then, overload on visual stimulation for a while, then take a few days to recover and PREPARE.

This weekend was awesome- we had a great time at Mädelsabend making wraps and singing songs and watching a super-sweet movie that made me miss someone, and just hanging out and not getting enough sleep. Saturday morning brought losing at Sorry (which is called Mensch Ärger Dich Nicht in German) but not as bad as Nadja lost, and then driving Jaclyn home and getting to stay for delicious lunch instead of me and Nadja and Anja foraging something from our leftovers. Back home, turned leftovers into a salad for dinner, up to church, meet up with boys, drive to Conference. It rained like CRAZY. The radio was terrible and I surfed it constantly and maybe heard one decent song. My iPod isn't friends with Piff's cd-player-to-cassette-adapter, even though the speaker jack fits in the hole. We were too early and it was wet and we walked and hid from the rain and ate and hung out. The Teenie Konferenz suffered from having less energy than a similar event in America would have, but a fun band played some praise songs that I know and some praise songs that I didn't know and there was a silly dance! Ummmmm. . . slept in the Sporthalle that night, which isn't the most awesome place to sleep, but we passed out on our air mattresses and didn't wake up until people started waking up and being noisy in the morning. It was nowhere near enough sleep. Breakfast and packing and wandering for the 2 or 3 hours until stuff got started, then an overly-long ordination service where we tried really, really hard not to fall asleep with minor success, and then waiting in the longest line for lunch and they were out of schnitzel and tomato-mozzerella sammiches, so we ended up with Wurst and pea soup and a pretzel (you can play a guessing game to decide who got what!). Hanging out for a long time, Nadja ran into some people she knew, Anja saw a few people she knew, but mostly only from our church, walked around, avoided the off-and-on-rain, eventually went back for the afternoon service, which proved to be a lot of fun with an awesome xylophone-based band and a cool Baptist dude making a keynote (I know, Baptists, but this guy was neat!) and a surprise visit from the goalie from Stuttgart, who I guess is a famous Fußball player and also pretty religious! Lots and lots and lots of Fußball in general. . . end of the fun service, headed home but not without stopping by Nadja's mom's house to say hi cause it was Mother's Day and all. . . half-sleeping in the car. . . get home, "help" Piff with his English homework, sleep. . . Monday at school. . . skipping Bio in the afternoon because I had to buy birthday presents for a ton of people because I will be seeing them today (!) and then Tuesday and more school and fully intending to bake cookies, but then I fell asleep on the train and missed my stop and thus got home an hour late and then had lunch and started uploading Paris pictures and Piff had a lot of homework and cookies didn't happen. Sorry, guys.

I AM GOING TO BERLIN TODAY. WILL BE GONE UNTIL SUNDAY. WILL HANG OUT WITH CRAZY AMERICANS, TAKE MANY PICTURES, HAVE ADVENTURES, MAYBE EVEN TELL YOU ABOUT THEM.