I’m sitting in the Louisville airport waiting
to board my first flight on my journey to Frankfurt am Main, Deutschland. In about one hour I will board a flight to
Washington D.C. Dulles Airport, then after a 2 hour layover, I’ll board my
plane from D.C. to Frankfurt.
I’m in a
weird state of mind right now. All of
this came about so quickly. At the end
of October, I woke up one morning and decided that I wanted to go overseas for
an extended period of time again. I kind
of jokingly talked about taking the next semester off and going to nanny
again. I didn’t think much would come
from it, but I decided to go ahead and make a profile on the au pair
website. Within about 24 hours, about 20
families contacted me. I don’t know
exactly how it all happened, but I think it was God working. Within about 2 weeks I had a great family
picked out, a nice girl to sublease my apartment and a plane ticket to
Frankfurt.
I am
really happy to be going to Germany. My host family seems very nice and I will
get to meet up with German and American friends who are currently in
Germany. I will also get to travel. I hope to spend a long weekend in Italy with
my wonderful Italian host family from last summer, possibly visit my sister in
London and maybe even fit in a trip to Eastern Europe.
I am
interested to see how God will use this time.
I really love being overseas and happy to go to Germany and see new
places and experience a new culture, but it was kind of hard to leave
Indiana. Last semester, I got involved
in a great ministry on campus and I am really going to miss spending time with
the new friends I have made. I feel like
there were so many ways God could use me and teach me in Bloomington this
coming semester, and my vision isn’t so clear when I think about my time in
Germany. The way things worked out for
me to get to Germany, make me pretty confident that God has something planned
for my time there, but I have no clue what it is.
I pray that
I have the courage and faith to listen to God and follow his plans for me. I feel so blessed with the opportunities that
he has given me. Over the past couple of
years, I have gotten to meet so many people and experience different
cultures. In about 12 hours I’ll be
meeting my host family at the airport. I
don’t exactly know what the next three months will look like, but I’m excited
to see what will happen during this time.
My German family-
Matthias, Janet, Mareike, and Leonie
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