I was in Cyprus for 7 weeks, that was amazing. But now I'm back in Germany. Back to normal, back to work! I went ahead to work further on my painting "Portrait of Sarah" and became aware of something: I hadn't seen the picture for 7 weeks, and last time…
I went to visit the Zykos-Family on Saturday. They consist of Aris and Heather, their 8 kids, their dog Mina and plenty of birds (chickens, doves, pidgeons). It's a simple home, but the love and joy makes it a great place to be. We had some meatloaf, peas and carrots…
As in the previous weeks I've been keeping busy. I could get to know my interns better than before, realizing what treasures they really are. They are not perfect and have their battles, but they are great people. I can see what I need to learn just by seeing other…
We have a less packed schedule this week, but this doesn't mean we are doing nothing. Yesterday we learned a lot about the topic of human trafficking and modern-day slavery, as this is one of the outreach focuses of the House of Prayer (HOP) here. The HOP networks with, help…
Yesterday my rentor dropped in to see if everything was ok, and he gave me a bag of fresh lemons, grapefruit and pomogranate. The lemons are still green, but they smell so intense already! I made some fresh lemonade this morning, and the flavor is great! Today I visited with…
I did a lot of stuff in the last few weeks, and it's starting to catch up on me. I got very tired on Wednesday, so tired in fact that I felt like crying. I definetly needed a break, so I decided to stay home for Thursday. I realized that…
This week-end was very spontaneous and cool! I had some of the interns over at my house on saturday. We went for a swim in the ocean and built a bonfire at the beach. While we were standing around the fire we met some guys from Israel, Gideon and Yah-Li…
Last saturday we went out to dinner at a local Taverna and ordered some "Mezze". A Mezze is a group of many different dishes and you need at least 2 people to eat 1 Mezze. We were 8 people and ordered 6 Mezze, 4 of them meat and 2 of…
I haven't been posting many updates because it's really busy here. I can't share everything (that would be too much!) but here's some news: Among many other things, I've been leading some art and music in the House of Prayer. The "art stream" is once a week, always on Tuesdays.…
After going to Salamis and Varosha (the ghost town), the rest of the week was spent with hearing and participating in teaching. I got to know some of my interns and support the art workshop session on Friday. Also, I went on Friday evening to visit two of my interns…
Here's my song "Bird's Eye View". I apologize for the bad sound quality, I will try to edit it when I have the time. Since I was at the top of the ampitheater, it was quite windy. The lyrics are below, and also below the youtube-video. This song is not…
Today we went to the ancient city of Salamis in Northern Cyprus. This is where the apostles Paul and Barnabas landed when they came to Cyprus for their first missionary journey. It was a bustling Roman city and the ruins speak of its former glory. We all went to the…
This weekend was fun and relatively relaxing for me, I hope your weekend was cool too :) On saturday I visited with two of the other ladies on staff, one is from Russia (Irina) and the other is from Ireland (Carol). So that made 3 people from 3 nations! We…
The week of staff training is over, so I've got some time on my hands. This won't be happening again anytime soon, so better make use of it: I started the morning off by doing some much needed "deep cleaning" of my appartment. This basically meant sweeping, wiping down surfaces…
Today we had another preperation meeting. Afterward one of the other staff members took me by a produce shop. And the store had the biggest pumpkins (actually they were gourds) I had ever seen in a little produce shop! I could lift one out for a photo, but not so…