Monday, May 17 2010

Today we awoke after a well deserved night of sleep and met at the bus at 8:30 am. This would be our first day in Germany and I was quite excited that we had some guests on the bus from Germany, Leo, Tobias, and Tabea N and Tabea T. We arrived at a small town, Bad Salzuflen, where there were walls of salt water which is healthy for your lungs. Many people came to the walls for help with respiritory problems. We then walked around the town, and then drove to a castle which was closed because it was Monday. It was raining so we continued to Lemgo, where we would be inside... We were mostly outside enjoying the midevil city in the rain. Several of us went into St. Martin's Kirche (cathedral). We then headed back to the bus. I attempted to convince people to come bact with me to the church and sing. One person for each voice part. Then when no one wanted to go at that time because the park had a very interesting swing. I talked with Bradley and we took some extra time with the whole group and we sang "Kyrie", "Psalm 81", "I will not leave you" and "606". It was amazing. We then headed back to the bus and went back to have our concert in Bielefeld, a place where Hesston College has never performed before. i think that we made a good impression. We ate outside and i got to speak German with some of the youth. After eating some bratwurst, we gave a good concert that folled a classic game plan that i presented in the meeting room, and no one understood the first time so i had to explain a lot. Our concert was well recieved and we came back late for an evening with host parents.

Nate Snyder