Here are some pictures from X.Sport
January 21, 2007
Friday, January 26, 2007
Thursday, January 25, 2007
hey everyone!
i figured it was about time for an update. do you agree? good. ok, now that we have that all sorted out, i'll continue on with some little updates. for those of you that don't know yet...lenneke DID return to us (with a beautiful new passport) last thursday, the same day that the Team 69 from Borgen came up to help us with our X.Sport! so we were all put to work getting ready for our X.Sport. We had football (soccer actually...but that can be debated later....) tournaments, a dance workshop, and a little craft corner. we had been encouraging the kids to sign up for the football a lot.....but we forgot to encourage them to sign up for the dance & craft. the result was having around 70 kids signing up for football and ZERO people at the dance & craft areas! hehe, actually that's not the complete truth. while some of the older kids were playing football, two little girls wanted to learn a dance, so Annika and I taught them shackles! they were so excited that they wanted to perform it in front of the teenagers.....so we did! :) actually, we just found out yesterday that those girls are going to be teaching the dance to a couple of their friends and they'll be performing it at their school talent show early next month!!! These girls are probably like 9 years old and they'll be bringing shackles into their school! sweeeeeeeet! anyways, back to X.Sport. it was a great success! i think the kids had fun....plus with the older kids the girls team got 2nd place! never before have i been so proud :) hmm, i think that's it...i don't have X.Sport pictures with me right now....but hopefully by tonight or tomorrow i'll get a bunch up on here for you guys.
Our time here in Kautokeino is coming to an end soon. On Sunday we'll be packing our bags and making our way one step closer to Russia. Tomorrow we have our final movie night with the youth, on saturday we'll be spending some quality time with certain, speical youth.....but for today we're busy painting up the Culture House and listening to worship music/testimonies from Bethel together. as i like to say: team work makes the dream work.
much love,
Smelly Mellly
i figured it was about time for an update. do you agree? good. ok, now that we have that all sorted out, i'll continue on with some little updates. for those of you that don't know yet...lenneke DID return to us (with a beautiful new passport) last thursday, the same day that the Team 69 from Borgen came up to help us with our X.Sport! so we were all put to work getting ready for our X.Sport. We had football (soccer actually...but that can be debated later....) tournaments, a dance workshop, and a little craft corner. we had been encouraging the kids to sign up for the football a lot.....but we forgot to encourage them to sign up for the dance & craft. the result was having around 70 kids signing up for football and ZERO people at the dance & craft areas! hehe, actually that's not the complete truth. while some of the older kids were playing football, two little girls wanted to learn a dance, so Annika and I taught them shackles! they were so excited that they wanted to perform it in front of the teenagers.....so we did! :) actually, we just found out yesterday that those girls are going to be teaching the dance to a couple of their friends and they'll be performing it at their school talent show early next month!!! These girls are probably like 9 years old and they'll be bringing shackles into their school! sweeeeeeeet! anyways, back to X.Sport. it was a great success! i think the kids had fun....plus with the older kids the girls team got 2nd place! never before have i been so proud :) hmm, i think that's it...i don't have X.Sport pictures with me right now....but hopefully by tonight or tomorrow i'll get a bunch up on here for you guys.
Our time here in Kautokeino is coming to an end soon. On Sunday we'll be packing our bags and making our way one step closer to Russia. Tomorrow we have our final movie night with the youth, on saturday we'll be spending some quality time with certain, speical youth.....but for today we're busy painting up the Culture House and listening to worship music/testimonies from Bethel together. as i like to say: team work makes the dream work.
much love,
Smelly Mellly
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
sun & tropical temperatures!!!
Here a little note from Holland, my personal, privat outreachtrip!!!
Here it is about 12 celsius degrees now!!!
Yesterday I had really nice trip. Thanks to Hannah, Leivur and Jung Im, did I arrive in Kirkenes on time. So after a little walk in 'the sunmove' and a wonderful breakfast (Jung Im thank you for your 'homemade' bread and Hanna for your energydrink!!) I entered the waitingroom of Kirkenes airport!!! Wow, overwhelming.... As you can see!!!
But is was really blessed by the sunlight!!! The sky was clear and it was warm. And because I had to find the postofficething I had to walk around (so sad....) And the good thing...I had to walk for about half an hour!! So I really enjoyed that. I had never thought I could ever enjoy a good walk in the sunlight that much, but I did. And I was happy to do it, because I was quite bored the rest of the time at the airport.....but I had sun!!!!....yep, enough about that.....
The rest of the flight was boring....and I was happy to see Amsterdam finally!!! And then to see my father waiting for me at the airport....yeps....and we went to Mc Donalds!!! So GOOD!!!!!
This morning I made pictures...by the way, not good making pictures that early in the morning...and I wasn't allowed to wear my glasses, so I didn't have anything what could hide my 'wallen'...what's that in english...those things under your eyes when you are really tired....well...oja....and your not allowed to smile, so I look.....well....
So now I have to wait to get my passport tomorrow...so after buying my tickets to go back again on thursday, the only thing I can do now is enjoying my duth life, here in Nunspeet!!!! So....I'm leaving now....!!!
Monday, January 15, 2007
Photos from week one
This says it all
Bex and Jung Im made popcorn the
old fashioned way, and hot chocolate
Most of the kids who came for the
movie night
Lenneke, Mel and Leivur doing
a drama\dance
Playing cards after the kids
Lenneke, Mel and Leivur doing
a drama\dance
Playing cards after the kids
movie
Karaoke with the youth after
the movie
The police (thanks to Hanna, Mel and
Cherob for being tee decoy posers to get
the photos of the police woman)
Line dancing at the disco (before the kids and youth arrived)
one week later...
We had our first week up in Kautokeino! And it was a good, busy one! On Thursday we went to the school & interrupted almost all of the classes to introduce ourselves and invite the youth to different activities. The response was quite positive from the teachers and the students. On Friday we had our first movie night with them! First we had grades 4-7, and we had about 20 kids out. After the movie most of them stayed and we played card games with them, and just got to know a couple of them a bit. Then a bit later we had grades 8-age 18, we had about 10 girls come out for that one. And then after the movie we hung out with those girls and played SingStar on PS2....haha, i'm telling you these people take this competition seriously! I think the highlight for all of us was when the POLICE stopped by to check up on things. Hehe, we've got pictures to prove it. The police women were really lovely actually. Anyways, we didn't get back to our place until quite late...but we all went to bed really fast knowing what the next day all held for us.....DISCO! On Saturday we made our way to the Klubben (where we were having the disco) at about 1pm to decorate, and check the place out. everyone had their own job & did an amazing job. we basically had 2 jobs: security, and dancers/talkers....although a couple of times the security people snuck their way onto the dance floor. Bex was particularly difficult to get off the dance floor. I'm telling you! It was really good, we had lots of fun, and I think that the youth enjoyed themselves as well.
Last night Lenneke, Hanna, Jung Im and Leivur drove up to Kirkenes (6hrs away) to drop Lenneke off at the airport. For those that don't know, Lenneke's passport expires like 3 months(or 4) after we get back from Russia, and they have this rule that your passport has to be valid 6 months after leaving Russia. So Lenneke has flown down to Holland for a couple of days to get herself a new passport. LENNEKE: we miss you, and can't wait for you to return :)
ok, that's it for now. we'll get back on here in a bit to put some pictures up.
Last night Lenneke, Hanna, Jung Im and Leivur drove up to Kirkenes (6hrs away) to drop Lenneke off at the airport. For those that don't know, Lenneke's passport expires like 3 months(or 4) after we get back from Russia, and they have this rule that your passport has to be valid 6 months after leaving Russia. So Lenneke has flown down to Holland for a couple of days to get herself a new passport. LENNEKE: we miss you, and can't wait for you to return :)
ok, that's it for now. we'll get back on here in a bit to put some pictures up.
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Watch out world, here we come
hi hi hi!!! We've made it to Kautokeino! After leaving Borgen at 10am, Monday morning, we made a stop at Skibotn for passport pictures, which ended up taking 2hrs :) so at 12pm we were finally on the road....and on the road....and on the road...and on the road....until we found out that we had missed an important turn off and had been travelling south for 3hrs when we were supposed to be travelling North. hehe, so finally 11.5hrs after leaving Borgen we arrived at our new home!! it's beautiful up here...everything is covered in snow.
Some of us were sorely dissapointed that we didn't get to live in igloos, but that is okay, we have really great rooms and real beds with real windows that work! Not that we would open them because it is rather cold here and no one fancies waking up covered in snow. We have a kitchen with a table and we can eat there. That is good too. It's snowed here, every night. It's so beautiful and we can almost see the sun when we look really hard.
Okay so now for some serious stuff.... We visted the Nuoraidsiida (Youth/Cultural house) and met some of the youth and staff. We were given a hearty welcome and they gave us each a staff T-shirt, which are really COOL!!! We are currently working with the Nuoraidsiida (Youth/Cultural house) to develop our program for the next 3 weeks. Things are already looking promising as they have asked us to be in charge of some drama, music and creative classes. We have already begun to plan some fun activities such as a disco, movie night, and a sports day, which gives us a great opportunity to get to know the youth here.
Well, that's about it for now.
Thanks for praying for us, we are seeing God move and open doors, and this shindig isn't finished yet!God bless you guys!
From: GROUND ZERO (our team name)
In the van
View form our kitchen
Our new T-shirts
Ground Zero at work
Some of us were sorely dissapointed that we didn't get to live in igloos, but that is okay, we have really great rooms and real beds with real windows that work! Not that we would open them because it is rather cold here and no one fancies waking up covered in snow. We have a kitchen with a table and we can eat there. That is good too. It's snowed here, every night. It's so beautiful and we can almost see the sun when we look really hard.
Okay so now for some serious stuff.... We visted the Nuoraidsiida (Youth/Cultural house) and met some of the youth and staff. We were given a hearty welcome and they gave us each a staff T-shirt, which are really COOL!!! We are currently working with the Nuoraidsiida (Youth/Cultural house) to develop our program for the next 3 weeks. Things are already looking promising as they have asked us to be in charge of some drama, music and creative classes. We have already begun to plan some fun activities such as a disco, movie night, and a sports day, which gives us a great opportunity to get to know the youth here.
Well, that's about it for now.
Thanks for praying for us, we are seeing God move and open doors, and this shindig isn't finished yet!God bless you guys!
From: GROUND ZERO (our team name)
In the van
View form our kitchen
Our new T-shirts
Ground Zero at work
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