We are still alive

We know it has been awhile and we just wanted you to know we are alive and are doing great. Each week is getting better. There has been a group of girls that we have really connected with and there they are in the picture, plus Korina. This is one of our Friday sleepovers, a time when we watch Lost, eat junk, listen to good music and laugh. Good times.

The other school is coming back on Wednesday and we will be able to talk to the Serbia team. It is going to be a packed and crazy week. We will update in about two weeks, after our week in Belfast and the weekend in Dublin.

Feel free to email us because we love you and want to hear from you.

Tollymore Forest

Laura and I just got back from Tollymore and it was BEAUTIFUL! I can see how our friends C.S. Lewis and Tolkien were inspired by the forest. It was great, we walked along paths, climbed trees, ate by the water and took a lot of pictures. It was so peaceful and magical.
This week has been good. On thursday we had movie night. This was really exciting because we are not aloud to watch any movies or t.v. However, sneaky as we are, we have found away around that little rule. There are a few other girls that love Lost as much as we do and so we watch it when all the staff people are watching their movies. Sometimes one just needs to be rebellious.
In March we found out that we will all be going to Belfast to do street reach for a week. But we will fill you in on that when we know more.
Our tickets have been bought for Serbia and we are leaving April 22. It's almost certain that we will be staying in the Church apartment there. We were also assigned duties. Laura is in charge of housekeeping and I am responsible for grocery shopping with another girl. The leaders are hoping that we will be able to go to Turkey as a vacation while we are there. So we will see.
Well that's all for now. You are pretty much caught up to what's happening in the lives of Laura and Alex.

We Got Mail...

So we received our first letter in the mail yesterday!! Mark Gunther, this is going out to you. Mark made our day, no no no, our week. Now we don't want to make you guys do anything you don't want to, but we just wanted to say that Mark is a great example to you all!!!!

Getting Into The Swing Of Things

This post is going out to Lauren, who reminded us that it has been a little bit since we last posted anything. Reasons for this is because there hasn't been anything too crazy this week. We have started to get into the swing of things a bit and each day we are feeling more comfortable with things. Last week we had a speaker from Ireland who spoke about the cross and this week we had a lady from England who spoke about identity. The first speaker made us think about how we view others and that we should never judge people. A quote that he said that we like was, "Be kind to everyone, for each person is fighting a great battle." This week on identity has been great, let us just say that we have a better handle on who we are and why we are so weird, haha. We just found out that on February 11 we are going to Tollymore forest where CS Lewis got his inspiration to write Narnia, so we will spend the day there and have a BBQ! A bunch of us are also looking into going to Dublin for St. Patrick's day, how cool is that? The group here is fun and when we aren't doing stuff for school we just hangout, play games, go to the pub down the road (which is really nice and has a lovely fireplace.) Tonight we have celebrity dress up night, we aren't sure who we are going to be yet, someone else picks the celebrity and outfit, so we will see. Well until we write again. Hope you all are doing well and we look forward to hearing from you.