Hahaha don't let the title deceive you, this week may not have been fun. But also don't let these words deceive you, maybe it was fun. Who knows?
Nah
we good don't worry. This week wasn't too crazy to be honest. Had a good
chunk of meetings and contacting and planning and such. We have just
been preparing for activities this coming month for Christmas and such
so that's exciting. That is consisting of us working together with a
service organization called čisteći medvjedići, which just means Cleaning Bears in Croatian. That one should be ton of fun and I am
excited for it.
As for activities we have
already done, we had Thanksgiving in Zagreb with majority of the
missionaries in Croatia and then the missionaries from Slovenia, which
was way fun because we don't get to see them too often. That was a ton of
fun to see everyone and such! The only bummer was that it became our
new pday so we had to go a like an extra 3 days without a pday (nothing
too bad to complain about I know).
Aside from that we did some
service out at a Catholic church (on a street called Sveti Duh which
literally means Holy Spirit) and it was cool. We helped pass out
food to the homeless, plus we got to know the people there a lot better
when we had lunch and stuff afterwards. They actually asked us to come
back again to help with something else with this other guy who was in
charge of this others group that focuses on awareness of those with
physical disabilities. His vision was kind of to just have those with
disabilities feel that they are no different than others. He was having
an event where they would have people in wheelchairs cook this cool
meals and such. I think it was such a cool idea and a great group and I
was glad I could help out a bit.
While we were
there we met these other dudes who were closer to our age volunteering
at the church (only during the winter and such) and it was so fun. They were so dazzled by the fact we could speak Croatian. They were
like, "so you're actually American? Like no relatives or anything who are
from Croatia?" It was awesome, definitely a confidence booster. Plus
some of them where from Bosnia, so i was able to bond a lot better with
them (mainly over ćevapi hahah), I hope to see them again, we all plan
to.
Last thing was we got to support one of our
friends from the Cleaning Bears service group in one of his things. He
invites us to a play and we were like yeah sure. We thought it was
going to be like a high school kind of play. So we buy tickets and such
and show up, its literally a full blown opera at a very big theatre
place. They were performing "animal farm" which I must say, is a very
interesting idea and fascinating opera. It was cool because they did it
in english and had translations into Croatian on these screen things,
some good language practice. The opera itself did very good at making
you feel like you were in it hahah. Anywho that was way fun.
Small note ill add is that it is adventure here in Croatia, so they have
Christmas stuff everywhere and it's beautiful. Apparently it's been
voted 3 times the best place for Christmas in Europe or something like
that.
Today we are going to play soccer at this rented out place and i am so excited, it should be a lot of fun.
Hope yall have a great week!