i am here! it is so beautiful...and im pretty sure i could live here for the rest of my life. there is just something about looking out of my bedroom window and seeing the beautiful mountains in the distance. I am glad that i made it here! i was supposed to have a 1 1/2 hour lay over in New Werk. My plane ended up arriving at the A gate at 6:02 pm and the flight to Switzerland was DEPARTING at 6:10 at the C gate...which is a much longer distance than i imagined it would be. thankfully, after sprinting for 30 seconds i found a nice man on one of those go carts and he drove me to my gate. my plane had already boarded but i made it just in time!
So, now I am here staying at a chalet...it is huge! i have to climb 7 flights of stairs to get to my room. i counted them today...i will probably develop some massive leg muscles by the end. ps. this keyboard is completely screwed up....for instance..the y button has a z and the z has a y but it still comes out the same and there are A LOT of commands that i dont know how to do. so i will try to avoid using sentences that need them.
anyway, our group of 31 makes up 10 different nations! i have never been surrounded by so much diversity in my life...we have people from new zealand, mexico, germany, canada, america, the netherlands, indonesia, australia, korea..and im forgetting one. The ages range from 17 to 29. its so great. There are other schools going on here too right now so there are probably about 100 people at this base. All of our base meetings have a Korean translator because there is a Korean school going on here right now too. So far its mainly been introductions, but we had amazing worship this morning. For some reason i woke up at 5;15 am and could not go back to bed. you would think after staying up for 32 hours straight i would have no problem sleeping...but for some reason i did. it was kind of nice though because no one else was awake and i just went up to the attic where there is a prayer room... it was raining otherwise i would have been outside. This verse stood out to me "And this is my prayer; that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless until the day of Christ." My hope in this time is that i will fall more in love with God and discover more of who i am in Him and also develop a selfless love for others.
So, that is the update right now. hopefully, i can put some pictures up soon. thank you all so much for your prayers and support.