Long time to type :P

Well It has been a while since I have written a blog entry. Since the last entry I have been quite busy.
Well Let me tell you what I have been doing.
I recovered from my lovely sickness I had. Charcoal does wonders. :P I can't really remember what happened that week. It seems sooo long ago. On the weekend we had Ice skating. The female SM's had all gone to the women's retreat. I was the only SM on duty that weekend. The guys helped out whenever I needed them to, which was great. I was off duty for about 5hrs out of the whole weekend though. On friday night I wrapped the head deans car in cling wrap with the help of a few other people. That was great fun. Everyone saw it in the morning and were not sure what happened.
We started a bible study group for the older guys on Monday the 14th of Jan. They all enjoy it. We have been studying topics that they chose. Some of them have been alcohol, and also prayer.
During week 3 I organised a youth Sabbath school class. The the school the students attend a talk on set topics that the teachers take. These are sometimes topics that are relevant to the students but they are not a bible class more like a small sermon. We had the first youth Sabbath school class on Saturday the 20th of Jan. We had around 10-15 students that attended. We have run SS every week. Each week it has been a different SM that has taken the lesson. We are also growing in numbers also. The age group we had attending is between 16-26. It's really good. We are getting good feedback about the class. The pastor of the church has told the Danish SDA Conference about the class and they are looking into getting the CQ lesson translated into Danish for the young people if this SS class becomes successful. Could you please pray that we can reach out to the students through the small groups and other bible studies we have running here.
Once that weekend was over I had to start thinking about Rome and packing. It was a great week. I left for Rome on the 25th of Jan departing from the school at 410 in the morning. It was very early in the morning. We arrived in Rome at 1230. we were welcomed to a very warm Rome. I was expecting it to be warmer then Denmark but not as warm as it was. When we arrived it was around 15'c compared to the -2'c that we left behind. After getting our bags we headed out to the bus that was waiting for us. the problem was it wasn't where we were told it would be. One of the teachers called the bus company and they told her that it was at the airport so she went looking. She couldn't find it at all. we waited where we were for another 20mins then we ended up moving the another spot. The bus finally came at 1400. The bus took us to our hotel we were staying in. On the way we drove past some of the famous sites in Rome like the Colosseum. We were all like tourists( oh wait we were) when we went past the Colosseum. We all jumped across the bus trying to get a pic of it.
After arriving at the hotel we were given a couple hours of free time to wonder around and get some food. I went for a walk with the guys I was living with for the week. We went to the train station and got some food there. We all met back up at 1730 and started our tour. We went one of the many churches, Republica Square, saw a couple of statues, and the Spanish Stairs also.
The next day was sabbath. We was great. We went to the place where St Paul lived, where he died and where he is buried. I really enjoyed it. It made me really think about what the apostles went through for Christ. At the place where Paul was beheaded, there were stone pictures of the way both Paul and Peter died.
One Sunday we went through a few more churches and saw a couple of other things. For me the biggest thing of the day was visiting St Peters Cathedral and the Vatican City. we got to the Vatican in time to listen to the Pope's speech. The Pope said most of it in Italian but said one part in 6 different languages such as english, german, french, latin, ?polish? and Italian. After the Pope spoke two children spoke also. we couldn't really see the pope. He was in one of the windows. I tried getting a pic of him but my camera couldn't zoom far enough in. After the speech we went into St Peters Cathedral. IT IS ENORMMMMMMMMMMMMOOOOOOOUUUUUUSSSSS. On the floor there are markings of the size of other cathedrals. None of them compare to this one. After looking on the inside we went up to the topic and walked around the inside of the dome. It was really good. When we got there , we found out that the pics on the dome were not painting but mosaics. I didn't realise they were mosaics until I was up close. We did end up going all the way to the top. It was amazing up there. you Could see over nearly all of Rome. It looked like it any way.
On Monday we went to the Vatican Museum and Sistine Chapel. They were both amazing buildings. I really enjoyed it. Sistine Chapel is amazing. I could have spent nearly the whole day there just admiring the artwork on the walls and ceiling. In the afternoon we were allowed to roam around Rome. I ended up going shopping, well window shopping at least with some of the girls.
Tuesday. It was a very busy day. We went to the Roman Ruins from the 300BC or earlier. They was also amazing. I never thought I would ever be going there to see them myself. After we walked Through the ruins we went to the Colosseum. The Colosseum was humongous. I never expected it to be so big. Its amazing what the Romans built back then. The one thing I think about is if I was in Rome at the time that the Colosseum was built how would I bee watching the huge building being built? After the Colosseum we had a break for lunch. Crista and I went and found a grassy pack and sat and ate lunch and had a quick snooze in the sun. After lunch we went to a church from the middle ages that had been built on top of an ancient church that was also built on top of a sanctuary from way before that. We were able to go below the church and actually see the history. They had it all excavated and were still excavating it. We got to see the relics from each of the buildings that they had discovered.
Wednesday. We went and saw the Pantheon, Piazza Navona, Palazzo spada, Ara Pacis, Piazza del Popolo, Monte Pincio, and Villa Borghese. It was another very busy day. Wednesday night we also we and looked at the Cemetry of the Capuchins. This was a church that had made bible scenes out of human bones. I was fine walking through it until I got to the end. There was a plaque that read 'You are what we were, we are what you will become.'
Thursday we went to visit one of the many catacombs in Rome. This was very interesting on how they buried the people of the time. This catacomb was meant to have 15-30km of pipe network underground. in the after noon we were free. I ended up doing some shopping and wander some of the streets.
Friday we all packed up and went back to the school.
We arrived back at around 2200. I was greeted to a nice messy room. Someone had decided to prank me and destroy the nice clean room I had made to arrive back too. I found out the the dean that I wrapped the car in cling wrap had come in my room and put small bits of paper and balloons everywhere but some else finished the job.
This weekend(2nd-3rd of Feb) I had weekend duty with Mario and Daniel in the guy dorm. We had lots of people on duty this weekend because it was a closed weekend and all the students were meant to be here. On saturday night we had a costume party organised by the 1g's. It was really good. They had organised games and activities for everyone to do.
Sunday I was on duty by myself for half the day. That was not fun. We had people that had duty in the morning that were not here. It didn't run to smoothly.
On Monday I attended the cell group for the older guys. They talked about prayer. This was really good to see what they thought about it.
Tuesday just another tuesday. It was busy though.
Wednesday. We had an open school for new families to come have a look at the school. The vagt that was meant to be working in the guys down had to be in the school in meetings. He had got me take responsibility for the dorm and andagt. The night went really well even though I wasn't ready for what was happening. during the day I went through all the bathrooms in the building and cleaned all the showers. They were all disgusting. Now they look a whole lot better then before but are still kinda dirty.
Thursday. Today. I went for a bike ride. The weather was excellent. All blue and sunny. I went for a long bike ride. I rode about 30km. The direction I took was along the country roads past farms and small villages.