Black Forest Academy

The picture is an advertisement we found in Basel Switzerland that reminded me of my parents.

After all of our adventures in very foreign countries it is wonderful to be “at home” where I recognize the food, the customs (take your shoes off when you visit people’s homes and always greet the people around you when you enter and exit a restaurant) and the language which is gradually all coming back to me. Being in the country is a nice break from big city living, but we aren’t missing out on the art. Today we will visit the ceramic museum, go on a walk that takes you through the city by following different signs with pictures and information about an artist from Kandern, and see some of God’s own masterpieces as we trek through a portion of the Black forest that is said to look like the forest in Star Wars movie six. What I am really eating up though is rest! We finally have the chance to catch up on the sleep we haven’t been getting because we have been living up all of our time in the big cities. Here the pace is considerably slower and everything is so “gemutlich” (cozy, comfortable, and absolutely wonderful).

As I am reading through Ephesians about unity in the body of Christ it is so neat to see my brothers and sisters serving the Lord in Kandern at the Black Forest Academy. I am learning so much about life as a missionary and the unbreakable bonds between the students here who are always moving around. I felt as if I was at Erskine again when Sarah’s cousin Alyssia, all of her neighbors, and the two of us piled on one bed to watch a movie. And after a delicious dinner we came back to our place and piled on our bed to sample different German chocolates (it was a cultural experience that I couldn’t deprive Sarah Hope of).

Tomorrow we are on our way again to Switzerland for the Museum of Art of the Criminally insane and then to Berlin to see our favorite Rebekah Carson.

Bis Dann
Zarrahh Mellarr