Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Graduation Day

It's hard to believe, I know... but today is already Graduation Day!!! How crazy is that? It seems like only last week or so that we all arrived here at beautiful Châtel and now we are about to leave again already.
This morning we will have a time of evaluation and sharing of what God has been doing in our lives during these past 12 weeks.
Then tonight we will have the Graduation ceremony and love feast.
Tomorrow is big cleaning day and Friday is already departure day. I'll be leaving after breakfast on Friday first to a friends place for two days -in Karlsruhe- with a stopover in Lausanne for a couple of hours - I'll also have to buy my ticket there, since it is not possible to get the international ticket online. And on Sunday late afternoon I'll be headed for Mainz again!

Have a great day in Jesus!
Hanna

Monday, June 18, 2007

A day in Geneva

On Saturday me and 4 other girls went to Geneva for the day.
It was beautiful - wonderful weather, nice company...
We just took it very easy, visiting 2 churches (Notre Dame and St. Peter, the floral clock and Jet d'Eau - a fountain situated in the harbour with a 460 feet(140 meters) high water column! There is a walkway that enalbes you to walk right past it, naturally we couldn't resist the temptation and got all soaked! We sure had a blast...

You can find a bunch of pictures from that day in the PHOTO GALERY!

be blessed,
Hanna

Monday, June 11, 2007

last full week

yep, it is hard to believe. it seems like only yesterday that we all arrived here and now we only have this week with lecture and next week is already graduation and departure. it is unbelievable. but on the other hand i can tell that i am coming to the point where i need to get out of here. not in a bad way or anything... it's simply time to get back in 'the real world'. Although i have no idea where it is going to take me after this.

i will keep you updated... it is almost time for class.
love ya,
Hanna

Saturday, June 02, 2007

my sacred romance

Hello everyone!
Only three weeks to go (2 weeks and 6 days to be exact), which is why I am headed out for Geneva in about 15 minutes. It's kinda my last chance to see Geneva, cos next weekend we'll be writing our Final Exam and the weekend after that I'm guessing we'll be busy with other stuff since it'll be our last weekend here.
Well, by now it is set that I am not going on outreach - which is qutie a bummer! I was so excited about going to Amsterdam, but my leadership here had the sense or feeling that is not the right time for me to go. well it's long story and i will spare you... ;-)

Last night we had our personal "Sacred Romance" presentation. It was really exciting to hear everyone's little story (everyone had only 5 minutes) of how God has been pursuing them all their lives.
My Sacred Romance is all about music. I mean, God has been pursing me in many different ways, but music is definetly the strongest. It is the one thing that speaks to me the loudest and clearest. But it is also an area where I have been hurt a lot. Both in the way of simply never being in couraged in it and the one time I actually dared to step out in spite of the lack of encouragement I was put down for it. So I stopped singing (at least in public). And it was not until three weeks ago when we had Paolo and Paola Bigoni speaking at our school - that it came up again. When Paolo was praying for me he felt something rising in me (I was like what is that going to be?!?) - a song. Well, you can only imagine in that moment I became a river (of tears).
It was so powerful and it went so deep. So he continued to really pray into that. It was amazing.
So for My Romance last night I sang the song that caused me so much heartache 10 years ago!
It was great! It was like something was being lifted off me... more later...
my "taxi" is waiting to take me to the train station.
love you all, God is good.
Hanna