Endelig sne??? - Finally snow???

Igår læste jeg følgende ordsammensætning på en af mine norske venners blog (Pers). Der stod: "Endelig kom sneen". Nu har vi jo altså også fået en del sne i DK de sidste dage. Og jeg vil bare sige: Jeg forstår det simpelthen ikke. Jeg forstår ikke, hvad den sætning betyder. Hvad laver ordet "endelig" i samme sætning som ordet "sne"??? Jeg er helt lost! Hvis det nu havde været ordene "Endelig" og "forår" i samme sætning - ja, så var jeg med! Nej, tro mig: En københavner som mig forstår dig ikke, Per! Det skal man vist bo nord for Larvik for at forstå.

We have a blizzard going on in Scandinavia. And to my big surprise I read this sentence on a friend's (Per's) blog yesterday, 'Finally the snow has come'. And I don't get it! I don't understand this sentence. I don't understand the meaning of it! What is the word 'finally' doing in the same sentence as the word 'snow'??? I am totally lost! If it had been the words 'finally' and 'spring', then I would have understood. But believe me, Per, a city girl like me do not understand you. I guess you have to live north of Larvik to follow your lines of thoughts.

Ny ven - New friend

Det ser vist ud til, at jeg har fået en ny ven. En lille sørøver på 5 år, som dukkede op til vores B'Tweens-møde (for 9-13-årige) idag i håb om at komme til at slå katten af tønden. Det kom hun nu ikke til, men vi hyggede os alligevel.

Og jeg vandt i stopdans.

Og her sidder en af anden af pigerne, Simone, som jeg også har kendt siden hun var fem år (og også sneg sig med til børnemøder, hun var for ung til). Hun sidder dybt optaget af Bibelen, mens de andre piger vimser omkring og gør sig klar til at gå.

Kan man ønske sig mere på en mandag eftermiddag?

It seems like I've got af new friend. A little Pirate at the age of five showed up at our pre-teen-meeting today. We had a really good time together.

And I won a traditional Danish dance contest (second picture).

And the last picture is of another girl who comes to our pre teen meetings. I have also known her since she was 5 years old and was too young compared to the rest of the children at the GNC meetings she attended. Today she was totally focused reading the Bible while all the other girls were buzzing around getting ready to leave.

Can you wish for more on a monday afternoon?

EBU - TCE

Tak for forbøn. Vi havde en rigtig god weekend. Jeg glæder mig til næste gang, hvor vi skal høre kursisterne undervise en bibelhistorie. Det bliver spændende.
Og så var det som altid superhyggeligt at overnatte hos min kollega Hanne sammen med to af kursusdeltagerne, Pia og Pia. Jeg ville have taget et billede af vores morgenbord (7.15 lørdag morgen) men glemte det.

Thanks for your prayers. We had a really good weekend. I look forward to the next time we meet, when each of the students will teach a Bible lesson. How exciting!
And as always I had a good time visiting my colleague, Hanne, together with two of the students. I wanted to take a photo of our breakfast table (7.15 Saturday morning) but forgot.

Rod eller EBU? - Mess or TCE?

Her på billedet ser du lidt kaos i mit hjem. Normalt er jeg stor fortaler for orden. "Ordnung muss sein". Men: Jeg er ved at forberede mig på EBU-kursus (Effektiv BørneUndervisning) her i weekenden. Og denne gang skal vi arbejde en del med at fortælle bibelhistorier med indhold. Og hver gang jeg skal undervise dette emne, som strækker sig over mange timer, så forbedrer jeg og forbedrer jeg undervisningen, for at gøre den optimal for kursisterne vel vidende, at mange af dem virkelig synes, at det er svært at fortælle bibelhistorier.

Såååå - ja ... lidt kaos må man leve med i ny og næ.

Bed gerne for os her fredag og lørdag, når vi arbejder med bibelhistorierne. Næste gang skal kursisterne selv undervise en bibelhistorie.

On this picture you see some chaos in my home at the moment which is really unlike me. 'Ordnung muss sein!' But I am preparing for our TCE-course this weekend. And this time we are going to have a lot about the Bible lesson and that always seems to be a subject that can be improved since it is quit difficult for the students to feel comfortable about teaching Bible lessons themselves (which they will do next time we meet). So please pray for us this Friday and Saturday as we go through this subject.

På weekend med familien - Family trip

Eller ihvertfald næsten...

Her i weekenden havde min menighed kirkeweekend med 130-150 mennesker. Det var utrolig dejligt at være med. Der var en god stemning, og det så ud som om, at rigtig mange fik rigtig mange gode snakke rundt omkring. Selv var jeg lejrchef, så helt vildt mange dybe snakke blev det ikke til, men jeg hyggede mig alligevel. Og så synes jeg jo, at det er sjovt at få logistikken til at fungere og løse små og større problemer - såsom da nadverbrødet var blevet spist til morgenmad...

Billedet viser nogle af børnene, der vist også råhyggede sig.

Or almost...

This weekend the church that I attend went on a church retreat. We were 130-150 people present. It was really good to be there. And there was a really nice and relaxing atmosphere. It seemed like many people had some really good conversations going on. I was organising the camp so I didn't have time for a lot of deep conversations but I had a good time anyway. As you might know I really enjoy organising and solving small and bigger problems - such as when we realized that the bread for communion had been eaten at breakfast by mistake...

The picture shows some of the children having a good time too.

Back in business

Ja, nu må jeg vist tage mig sammen og skrive igen på min blog. Efter min ferie gik jeg ligesom i stå. Måske fordi der ikke har været så meget at skrive om ud af over en masse kontorarbejde og planlægning. Og det er vist ikke så interessant at skrive om... Men hvem ved. Måske er der pludselig en masse spændende her på bloggen.

Well, I better put myself together and continue writting again on this blog again. After my holiday I never really had anything to write about except lots of office work and planning. And that is not that interesting to write about... But who knows - maybe there is suddenly a lot of great news on this blog.