Pow: The weather decided not to cooperate for our Team Fun Day, so instead of sun and warmth, we got wind and cold and a few drops of rain on our boat cruise on the Spree. It did clear up later, though, for Part 2: Biergarten in the Tiergarten.
Wow: The fact that we have Team Fun Days. It's great to work for a company that values teams so much that they allow us to take a day off every now and then to hang out and do fun things together.
And here are a few pictures from our adventures...
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Today was one of the biannual Campus Crusade for Christ Worldwide Day(s) of Prayer (what a mouthful!). We spent this morning at the Keltner's with the whole Berlin city team (i.e. all ministries of Cru in Berlin--Family Life, Athletes in Action, Momentum Europe, etc) praying for people working with our group all over the world. Definitely good for perspective to pray for the campus staff in Haiti who are dealing with the effects of four hurricanes right in a row or in the Dominican Republic where they were asking for prayer against the demonic forces that have held that country down so long. The afternoon, I spent with Erin at the TU praying for the city, our campuses, our students, etc. Good times. Pow: I somehow seem to have gotten blisters on both of my feet (I blame the heels I was wearing yesterday) and one on my hand from where a guy burned me (by accident) with his cigarette on the street the other day. Ouch. One of the girls in my small group told us a funny story tonight about a friend of hers who teaches kindergarten-aged kids somewhere in Germany. On the first day of school this year when she was trying to learn all of the kids' names, she came to one little boy who told her his name was Spiderman. She thought he was joking, but the whole day, he kept insisting that his name was Spiderman. When his mom came to pick him up that afternoon, the teacher and she told her his name really is Spiderman. Actually, it's officially Spider Manfried, since in Germany you have to give your kid at least one gender-specific name. My teammate Andy turned 25 today, so we had a birthday dinner for him with our team. His choice: Que Pasa, the closest thing we can find to real Mexican food in Berlin (it happens to be run by Indian guys, but they produce pretty decent Mexican). The other day, I was walking home through the market on Hermannplatz and, as usual, the Turkish guys were yelling all kinds of things about their products to get people to stop and buy them. One of them got a little more creative than usual and started yelling, "Erdbeeren, zwei Kilo ein Euro, zwei Kilo ein Euro! Erdbeeren macht glücklich!" Translation: "Strawberries, two kilo one Euro, two kilo one Euro! Strawberries make you happy!" It was so cute, I'll let it slide that it's poor grammar. I couldn't think of a better title for this post.... Ok, it's past my bedtime, so just a quick post for today... The Monday update... The Sunday Pow & Wow-- |