Kevin and I are staying at Oliver's house (we stayed at some of the Estonian students' houses this year... really cool)... I wake up, the sun is shining brightly into the window as if it were 2pm in Atlanta on a perfectly cloudless day, Kevin, who was sleeping on the floor near the fish tank, was not there... so I thought I SEVERELY overslept and I started to rush to get my clothes on to get ready. Kevin looks up from behind the couch where I was sleeping (where he had moved to) and asked, "What are you doing? It's 4 in the morning!"
I stopped to check my watch... it was 3:40am. I doublechecked... uh, yeah.
Me: "I'm going back to bed."
Yes... the sun doesn't REALLY go down in Estonia this time of year. Oh yeah.
So we finally get up and get packed up for camp. The Estonian leaders met students in the square out by the park and the American team (that would be us for the scorekeepers) went to Risttee to meet our students and get introduced. The students met us as we each exited the green room to Facebook pictures of us that Daniel had found (with the exception of BethAnn who doesn't have a Facebook account)
The day was entitled "Recycle Your Questions" and the activities were posed around getting us to think about the questions we ask, whether they are questions that really answer what's burning in our hearts, and the ultimate question that Jesus asked about Himself.
So - we left Risttee to go to the Tartu courthouse in which we had to solve a murder case by asking an accused and two key witnesses questions about the case and determine whether the person was guilty or not guilty. One team (Kevin's) found him guilty and the rest of us found him not guilty, so when we had to come up with our team names, Kevin's team decided to name themselves "Team Guilty" in honor of the verdict :).
We were Team Zooville... it was a creative collaboration that would take too much time to explain, but we had the most fun with our team name, I think.
We then went to a castle that was owned by a German landlord that was not very popular during his day and slept on the third floor to protect himself from angry peasants that wanted to kill him (hmmmm... what a life, eh?). Finishing up, we arrived on our first day at a Baptist church in a small tourist town where we laid for the night and had our first "conversations" (this was our debrief time where we processed the events of the day, the challenges, and talked about the Recycling idea for the day... in this case recycling our questions about life.
This was a really good intro day... I definitely discovered that I had a great team and was looking forward to the rest of the week.
The following day in this town (we didn't travel for day 2) was going to be a little more challenging :)....
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