I couldn't think of a better title for this post....
Tough.
Pow: I was supposed to meet up with my tandem partner on campus today, but forgot to write her an email to officially confirm it. So, when I got there at the time I thought we were meeting, she wasn't there. Waited for a while and she didn't show up. I ended up texting her, and she said she had made other plans since she didn't know if we were meeting for sure. Totally my fault, but still quite unfortunate. Then, I ended up having lunch with a friend instead, though, so it turned out fine.
Wow: We had our first FireAbend of the semester tonight with 11 students (our second biggest this year). We are meeting in the StadtMission this semester, which wasn't quite as comfy as our living room, but definitely more official. They even gave me a key to the StadtMission. So legit.
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The Monday update... Today on my way home from campus, I was wondering to myself if Germans do April Fools Day like Americans do. I checked my email when I got home to find a message from one of our German staff guys saying that Campus für Christus and SMD (the German version of Intervarsity) were going to merge into one group. It was a whole long well-written press release about how the groups were going to join together since we do so much of the same stuff already. I'm still not sure if Tim, the guy who forwarded it over our staff listserv, was in on the joke or not, but following his email came another one from my boss, Uli, reminding us to note the date of this historic decision: April 1. They totally got me. This week, I'm participating in the Uni-MAT, a meeting for all of the people who work with the CfC campus ministry in Germany, and it's a very good exercise in learning a new culture. The general thought in America is that Germans are highly efficient people. The Uni-MAT is direct evidence against that. I offer for you as evidence our schedule from yesterday: Last week was our first full week on campus, which we spent mostly doing surveys to find students who might be interested in our ministry and the events we put on. In four days, we did 1200 surveys. Whew. From those, we had approximately 100 girls at Humboldt, where I will be working most of the time, who said they were interested in something we do. Elaine and I split them down the middle and each emailed about 50 to try to meet up with them and talk to them more about what we're about, how they can get involved, etc. |