Football, Strobe Light, and Kitty

Football

We had the opportunity to watch our friend Ulrich (German Teacher at ICSV) play in an American Football game on Saturday. We sat in the rain and cheered on his team to an exciting OT victory.

Game ending touchdown

Final Score

Strobe Light

After the game, we drove to a small village outside of Salzburg for a concert. The bands Spoken (USA) and Ceil (DE) were scheduled to play in Vienna; we had some issues with finding an appropriate and affordable venue so we had to cancel the show. The problem was, Spoken had planned their itinerary with a departure from Vienna. So we agreed to drive to this concert and pick them up so Ceil didn't have to make a 450km detour to drop them off. We will be hosting the band members at our apartment and showing them around the city.

We had a good time at the concert, held in the kellar of an old brewery, despite an increasingly annoying strobe light...it was the last official concert of the tour so both bands really put on a good show.

Ceil

Justin with the guys from Ceil

Spoken with the strobe light in action

Kitty

We stayed at a small Gasthaus right across the street from the concert venue. It was nice to be able to drop into bed after a long day. It also served as a nice little getaway for Rebecca, Justin, and I and allowed us to see a new part of Austria. We enjoyed the presence of the house cat sleeping away the morning in the lobby...until Justin tried to pet it and it went into attack mode...fortunately, no Justins or kittys were hurt.

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and baby makes four...

that's right...our little family will soon become a foursome. We have found out that Rebecca is 6 weeks pregnant! There is definitely "something in the water" as all the families that live within our block have recently had a baby or are currently pregnant. Our baby will be the 6th baby born to ICSV staff in a span of less than a year (first one was born in early November and we will be welcoming our new addition in September). So, kind of unexpected, but a pleasant surprise nonetheless!

Fly on the wall and shipping possibilities

We left Gjakova yesterd to go to Pristina for the night before our flight back to Vienna today (Thursday)...but before we left, Berat invited us to join him at the Bethany Christian Services Community Center for an event as part of the USAid celebration of 15 year anniversary of providing development assistance in Kosovo. We helped Berat do some last minute set up stuff, but mostly, we just sat around waiting for the show to start. Maples and Faisal spent a lot of time with some of the young men and women who were waiting to present their vision to the USAid Executive Director. Soon, the delegation from USAid arrived and took a short tour of the center, in the middle of the tour, Berat took some time to introduce the Baseball camp to them...and then graciously introduced me. The delegation was surprised and excited to hear that there were some baseball opportunities. We spoke for a short while and it turns out that the Executive Director used to oversee the Denton Prog...

Who are these kids at ICSV...

Hi everyone... The first week and a half of school has been absolutely amazing! We have had some great opportunities to begin building lasting relationships with the students that God has brought to Vienna to be educated at the International Christian School of Vienna. Rebecca has been adjusting well to her role as secondary secretary. She is learning quickly the many demands of her new role and is doing quite well in supporting us teachers and the rest of the staff. Rebecca hard at work I have been really enjoying my classes. I have a total of 43 students spread out over 4 periods. The students I have represent 14 different home nations, with many of the students who are "Austrian" are first generation, so they are of other nationalities as well. I have also had the opportunity to begin working with the soccer team...again, many nationalities are represented on the field, truly an international squad. Here are some pictures of the team training at the local club...

Johnstein!

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