Wednesday, August 10, 2005

Visiting around

Annerose like to wash dishes so dl came out with this saying that washing dishes is Annerose's hobby because Rachael felt bad when we help out, hahahaa...

Pic 1: After breakfast, everyone help around in the kitchen to get things done faster.

Pic 2: Enjoying whatever we do... good isn't it... so that's why we have choice whether we want to enjoy, be happy and think positively or feeling bad and think negatively.

Pic 3: One chicken, one duck... i never understand what she is saying, she never understand what i'm saying... hehehe... but i got to learn some words from here like nose in german, etc.... hahhahaaa

Pic 4: The Methodist church that Ps Robert and Rachael is pastoring.

Pic 5: Waiting for one another outside the church, this is the place that we stay, in the church. The pastor and family are staying in the church too.

Pic 6: This is Ps Robert, Rebecca (5 yrs old), Rachael and Daniel (3 yrs old) [left to right]. We are walking to a Museum.

Pic 7: On the way, we saw a Greek Catholic church. 55% of Slovak ppl are catholic so according to Ps Robert, it is hard to evangelize to them coz they believe salvation by work not by faith.

Pic 8: Museum at Michalovce

Pic 9: This is a donation box in the museum, u can see some of the money there. Dakujem means thank you in Slovak. Dl and i learn a few words from the internet before we went to Slovakia but of course dl learn much more in Slovakia coz he is smart.... =)

Pic 10: This is the town in Michalovce. After the visit to the museum, we look for a place for lunch. It is going to be 1pm and we are late, suppose to follow Ps Robert to a gypsy's family to do bible study at 2pm.

Anyway, we had our lunch and we walk back to the church to get the cars to the gypsy's family at 2.30pm...

Pic 11: This is one of the gypsy family that Ps Robert is reaching out... they are very poor, gypsy's family are poor, well there are rich one as well, the rich are very rich, and the poor are very poor. This family that we visited had 4 children and her husband is in UK working there. Their house is not very small and they have a big garden but is quite run down and this is the kitchen, we sit around the table, not much furnitures and there are flies around us.

Gypsies are the one that Slovak ppl look down at because of some historical story. According to Ps Robert, it is hard to reach out to gypsies coz they will agree with us in whatever we say just to please us, but deep within, we really don't know whether they really believe or not. Ps Robert had a church for gypsies and the members always changed. When this group of gypsies are not happy with u, they will go to other church, and other church members from that church will go to your church instead because there are many groups among themselves as well. =) It is hard work, may God send revival to them.

Pic 12: Ps Robert sharing about the story of Isaac and Rebecca in the Bible, so there are 3 rebecca there... hehehee... talk about us as God's children need to be obedient, follow the teaching from the bible and sometimes God will send ppl to guide us, we need to obey as well... Then Ps Robert gave examples like sometimes the teenagers need to obey their parents if parents don't agree with the partner that they choose. Then Ps Robert asked me and dl to share how do we choose our partner, oooohhhh.... anyway, i share mine and dl share his on how we got confirmations to be together.

Pic 13: The other 2 daughters of this gypsy's family

Then we went to visit Ps Robert's outreach church to the gypsies... He had another pastor working together with him, she is Ps Svetlana, a very pretty lady... hehehee... she is a slovakian and she knows how to speak german... so she can communicate with dl and gang very well.

Pic 14: One of the meeting room

Pic 15: The worship team

Pic 16: The girl in the midst of us is Ps Svetlana, she is sharing some message from the Bible and it is in Slovak language, so no idea what they are talking about... kekekkee, unless Svetlana translate it to german and dl translate it to me. That day there ain't so many ppl coz all the gypsies went shopping, they got their salary... so a few ppl there only... heheheee

Pic 17: Dl and I playing with Rebecca and Daniel, they are very shy so need to make fun of ourselves to bridge to them.... Daniel and Rebecca was pulling grass outside the church so we use those grass and make into rings, necklace, crowns... hehehehee

Pic 18: Ps Robert swinging the kids and the rest looking. We are at the backyard of the gypsy's church... they have big place...

After some time of fellowshipping with their church members, we went back home to Ps Robert's church and we had our dinner... suppose to be bbq nite but end up cooking it in the kitchen coz its too windy...

Pic 19: Our windy dinner outside the church... heheheheee... ppl might think that it is a restaurant since so many of us eating. We have few church members with us and one of the couple is Pavol and Marianna, is one of Ps Robert's church member that dl and group knows coz they went to Germany to visit dl's church before i think... ahaha

Pic 20: Last pic for this blog... does it look delicious?? hahahahaaaa....

Tuesday, August 09, 2005

Travelling to Michalovce, Slovakia

We had a night stay in Banska Bystrica, had our breakfast at 8am and start travelling again to our destination to Michalovce.

Pic 1: I had a whole room for myself, it cost a lot but God blessed us coz Siegfried help dl to pay half... otherwise dl will have to pay for his room with Michi and my whole room.

Pic 2: Our breakfast


Pic 3: Siegfried, Annerose and Marilyn sitting next to Annerose.


Pic 4: Look at this mountain, it is Mount Tatry, the famous mountain in Slovakia which we got to climb on Friday... There are snows on top of the mountain.... cool and cold... hahahaa. We are still on the way while we saw this mount... it's 10.30am

Pic 5: Then we went to Tesco for shopping... the things in Slovakia is much cheaper than in Germany coz of the exchange rate. 1 Euro to 37.5 Skk, so normal ppl will go shopping... heheheee... like Annerose... heheee

Pic 6: Then we stop at a restaurant to have our lunch at 1pm.

Pic 7: My meal

Pic 8: Dl's meal

Pic 9: An example of how slovakian drivers are... They drive like ppl in KL... hehhee, ya... just like us... but not like ppl in Germany so german ppl are shock at how they drive... heehee, they still haven't see how i drive yet... kekekekekee

We reach Michalovce at about 4pm. There i get to meet Ps Robert and his wife, Rachel and their 2 children, Rebecca and Daniel. Robert is a Slovakian and his wife, Rachel is from England so praise the Lord that i can communite with them very well coz they speak English and Slovak, not German... hhehheheee... Well, dl is the translator all the time. Annerose knows basic English. So dl will translate german to mandarin to me or translate english to german to Siegfried and Michi... hehehehehee

After we get our rooms in Ps Robert's house, we went out to walk in the town in Michalovce while Robert introducing to us about this country of Slovakia. We had ice cream as we walk, the ice cream there are very very cheap. heheheheh...

Then we had dinner at Ps Robert's house and chit chat with them there... no picture taken coz forgotten... hehehehe...

Monday, August 08, 2005

Mission's trip to Slovakia

It's an early travel on Monday morning. Woke up at 4am and get myself ready. Michi is picking us up at 5.30am to go to Siegfried's house. All together 6 of us from Germany is going to this mission's trip to Slovakia, Michi, Dl, me, Siegfried, Annerose, Marilyn (Siegfried & Annerose's 6 yr old daughter).

Pic 1: In front of Siegfried's house early morning at 6am, its very cold...

Actually this mission trip is so different from other mission trips that i went before. Other mission trips that i went require us to bless the ppl there like preaching to them, sharing to them.. but this mission trip is to send a big sum of money to bless one of the pastor there, Ps Robert who is taking care of a church. It is a church that Dl's church is supporting so we are here from Germany sending a love offering to them as well as visiting the pastor there and some church members... heheeheee....

Pic 2: Siegfried's car in front of our car, they are leading the way... Beautiful scenery

This mission trip to Slovakia needs 2 days drive... so our first day is only driving and driving and driving from 6am - 8pm. We will pass through Austria too to get to Slovakia.

At 7am, we stop by at a bakery shop to buy our breakfast and hop to the car to have our breakfast in the car. Silly me when into the bakery shop while dl and Siegfried chatting outside, wanting to help dl to save some money so i get the cheapest bread that i can find and bought 4 plain bread, heheheheee... well, its cheap but this plain bread are suppose to eat with ham or to put other fillings in it to eat, being a jakun, i dont know coz i hvn't tasted this plain bread before mahhhh, hehehehee.... so poor dl and i have to eat plain bread, 2 for him, 2 for me... kekekekee. Well for me, that plain bread is so nice, tasty coz im used to eat bread back in M'sia, my normal lunch will be bread... hahahahaaa

Pic 3: Later we had some more bread prepared by Michi for us... so good of him... he made a lot, i think there are more than 10 of this bread with tomato, cheese and eggs in it. So along the journey, they will take and eat... long long journey... and i sleep a lot as if i took sleeping pills like what dl said... hahahaha. Well, other than sleeping i am also reading the book, Heaven is so real. It makes my journey more exciting as i read this book.... Wow... anyway, haven't finish reading it yet.

Pic 4: Don't ask me what is this, i had no idea... its on the way so dl took the pic...

Pic 5: Siegfried showing some directions according to the map to Michi while we had our toilet break.

Soon we will pass through Vienna, main city of Austria to go to Slovakia.

Pic 6: Wien is in german (Vienna in english)

Pic 7: After passing through Austria, we reach Slovakia, we have to pass through a custom and yes! We are in Slovakia. Then they change money at Slovakia...

Now we are travelling to Banska Bystrica, one of the town in Slovakia to stay over night. Its 4pm when we reach Slovakia, still a long way to go.

Pic 8: A lot of sunflower plantation here in Slovakia. They use it to produce oil. We are still travelling, its 6: 50pm, still haven't reach Banska Bystrica... im hungry... hehheehe...

At last, at 8pm we found a hotel, check in and walk for 30mins?? to get the best dinner... hahhaaa, recommended by Siegfried. He went to visit the church in Slovakia before, so he knows the way... and where to get good food. Heheehee... After dinner is like 10.30pm and poor Marilyn is tired and wanting to cry... hehhe, so dl said he will carry Marilyn back to the hotel... ohh... so sweet....

Pic 9: On the way back to the hotel... Marilyn is a pretty girl isn't she??? hehehee

Sunday, August 07, 2005

Slowakei's trip

Won't be blogging for one week from tmr, Mon till Sun, 7 days... going to Slowakei, another place in Germany to visit a church there and church members there. Will update u all once i come back yah.

And i have been quite busy the past 2 days with things so no updates... Here are short one.

FRIDAY

Friday we went out in the morning to settle some insurance stuff coz we are travelling to other places, so need to buy insurance, not me but for Michi and Dl. I already have one from Msia so no need. Then we went to papa mama's house for lunch again. It was good... too bad i forgotten to bring camera out.

Anyway, we came back at about 3pm then we did some house cleaning job. It is part of the contract of renting this house, one week dl need to clean the house for 1 1/2 hrs be it wiping windows, pulling grass, sweeping the garden, and dont know what else lah, this house is too big!!! They call it Johannes' castle. Hahahaaa.

Since dl owed Johannes about 7hrs i think of not cleaning the house because of dl's exam weeks, so we have to do it loh, and Johannes said if i do, it will be counted too... hehehee, so we do it together loh... Its fun being out from the house and enjoy the cold breeze outside and talk while working.

Dl wiping windows

Im pulling grass.

At 6pm we cook dinner. Dl make salat (salad).

Ingredients for salat.

Our dinner, salad and chicken wings... delicious... will i grow fat during this 2 months??

SATURDAY

My dl cooked curry chicken on Sat and invited a junior, Thomas and Michi to eat lunch. The curry chicken is super.


Dl cooking curry chicken and rice.

How about this?? Can u smell it??

Choy sam

Our lunch on Saturday with Thomas and Michi...

Praise the Lord for good food... delicious.

Now i can understand how oversea students craving for Malaysian food... me too eventhough im here for about 1 week, once talk about mamak, oohhh, especially Nasi Kandar... my stomach will start making sounds.... hhahaaa...

After our lunch, we played dart for a while and after Michi leave, we pull grass together again, with Thomas this time. Haaahahhaa...

Alrite, that's all for now...

Hey all, have a blessed week yah. Set your eyes upon Jesus. May God bless u.

Thursday, August 04, 2005

7th days: simple dinner




Pic 1: ==>
Rice and fried würst (sausage)








<== Pic 2: Vegie, very nice hor....






Pic 3: ==> Pfirsich (peach) & chocolate milk... hehehee