From the 17th to the 19th September, the CVJM had a family weekend away in a sort of big youth hostel, with mobile phones/computers/gaming/social networking as the theme. Frank, my boss, lead the seminar-like discussions, but my job was looking after a group of children while this was going on. We retold the story of Samuel hearing God’s voice as a child, and thinking Eli was calling him – we took photos and pieced them together in a powerpoint (the former being quick in comparison to the latter, unfortunately – such is technology).
We also played lots of games that involved running around, which was great fun, out at the back of the youth hostel, and around an old church. On the Saturday afternoon, there was a kind of sports day event with various amusing events, in which four teams competed. These included a sort of trim trail where the whole team had to carry a toilet paper pyramid around a course, stuffing the maximum number of air-filled balloons into one team member’s trousers, and a pillow fight between the biggest man from each team. All great fun.
The weekend was a great opportunity to get to know the various families in the CVJM, particularly the children. They taught me lots of interesting new vocab (‚Ohrenschmalz‘ – ear wax, ‚Maden‘ – maggot, ‚Segelohren‘ – literally ‚sail ears‘, meaning sticky-out ears – I love the German language and its one-word concepts). It also gave me more confidence with the language, speaking to children, and it’s obviously not too demanding.
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