First few weeks

My first week of school is already behind me and I'm enjoying it so far. In this semester I'll be attending a Psychology class as well as two Computer Science classes. The Psychology class is the last required class that I have to take for my CLBI degree and the two Computer Science classes I'm taking to give me a full time student status as well as to reach my 30 credits that are required for my Bachelor. So far I'm really enjoying my classes and I'm already looking forward to what is to come.
Here in Canada the weather is being weird lately. On one weekend we had over 20ºC and the following Monday and Tuesday we had snow. Now a week later we have 20ºC again and it looks like we are going to pass the 20ºC mark this week again. Well you have to love Alberta, lol.
In my last Post I asked you to pray for me in regard of my future. This is still a big part of my life. For the month of January I'll "have to" fly out to Paraguay, South America. This because I have an offer to work for a missions organization called MOVIDA. During the month of January I'll be meeting the leadership of MOVIDA and we will get to know each other during this time. The mission is comes from Argentina but during the month of January they will have a youth missions congress in Paraguay and I'll be helping them as well as being part of that congress. The congress is similar to the one in the USA called URBANA.
I ask you to keep praying for this opportunity and that God show me His will and open the doors that need to be open and close the ones that should be closed.

Thank you so much and may God's blessing be upon you!

Looking back to Brazil

Well, now I'm back in Canada and I finally got time to post something again. The World Cup was very interesting. As you might already know Brazil didn't do that bad at the World Cup. In my opinion it wasn't their best soccer, but they reached semi-finals, which they didn't reach since 2002. But to accept this statement that Brazil had a good World Cup you have to forget about the 7:1 against Germany. This was probably the darkest day for Brazil in this decade. It was unbelievable what the German team did that day. How ever, this day is now history and it is a tabu topic in whole Brazil.

After the World Cup everything turned back to normal. During my stay in Brazil I had the chance to do different kind of things or just to be part of things. One of my main jobs was to help with the maintenance of our camp called Rancho da Lua. In the beginning of my stay in Brazil Micha (my brother) and I were asked to help out with the youth ministry. We did this for the first 6 weeks and after that we just helped out when needed. My next big job was to help out PróSERTÃO with their homepage and other graphic work. My time in Brazil was always filled with some kind of work, if not for the Rancho then for PróSERTÃO. During the World Cup our family drove to one of the host cities to watch a game. So we drove out to Fortaleza were Brazil played Mexico. We didn't go into the stadium but we watched the game with 35'000 other Brazilians and Mexican in the FIFA Fan mile. Obviously this was a highlight of my summer, even tough Brazil just did a 0:0 in that game.

After the World Cup work went on as normal. There is always work to do on the Camp and that kept me busy for the rest few weeks. During the month of August a friend from Canada came to visit me and so we traveled a bit through northern Brazil together with my Brother and his girlfriend. This vacation was a long time overdue. We spent a few days on the coast on the beach and after that we went into the Amazon area for an other week. On our second last day up in the Amazon rivers we had the chance to help the Organization PróRibeirinho out with a kids day. After that it was time for my friend and me to leave back to Canada. We left Portel (google maps) Sunday at noon and arrived in Belem (google maps) the next day at 6am. The trip from Portel to Belem was on a ship which meant that had to sleep (at least try) in  hammocks. On monday we had then our bus ride down to Teresina (google maps) and also on this trip we didn't sleep in beds. We arrived Teresina on Tuesday at noon and that left us enough time to pack and get ready for our flight back to Canada which left on Wednesday at 4am.  We arrived Canada Thursday night and finally got to sleep in a bed again, which we didn't had the chance since we left Portel on Sunday. This was probably my craziest trip that I did so far and also the most tiering. 

I'm happy to be back in Canada. I hope that I can finish all my required courses till December and that I can return to Switzerland without having to worry about my studies anymore. I already got my flight booked back to Switzerland, but what I'll be doing exactly after my stay here in Canada is still unclear. The month of January and May are already planned and for the summer I'm already in tough with the Swiss Alliance Mission for a summer job. So in regards to that I ask you for prayer. There are many questions that need to be answered and also many doors that need to be opened or closed.

Thank you and I whiz you God's blessing over you