OK well I seem to have given up on my quest to write my blog in german but nevermind the only person who is likely to be bothered (or rather pretend to be) is Tom...who now has a personal mention in the blog which is more than enough of a present for him :P
Anyway.....it's 6pm now. Everyone was going hiking today (and I'm guessing they're still there). I wanted to go as I haven't really been out much lately and am probably looking like quite a social recluse but never mind, I decided that it was more important for me to be at church as I haven't been for 2 weeks due to Budapest and Venice and I wanted to go. Meh it's still not like church at home. Unfortunately there were no english songs this week but we did sing Ancient of Days and Holy is the Lord in german which I find pretty amusing!!!
Anyway after the service the lady sat next to me (Greta) actually spoke to me and she has an american husband (Ted) so I got talking to them. They also introduced me to a young couple Thomas and Rebecca - Thomas is austrian and Rebecca is his american wife. I got on really well with them all and they decided to take me to see some of Graz and so we drove to Mariatrost which is just outside of Graz. We were going to go to Buschenschrank for some lunch but it was completely packed so we found a chinese restaurant. The food there was pretty nice and we had a really nice time chatting. We dropped Ted off for an american football game which he had a ticket for and continued actually to Mariatrost picking up Tom and Rebecca's friend Rebecca (confusing or what) on the way. At Mariatrost we went for a walk through some maize and into the woods - think Delamere Forest but a lot nicer!!! We walked around for a bit and then Greta and I went back via the church (also called Mariatrost)....it'S free to go in and we had a quick look inside....it's baroque and really ornately detailed - really nice......and then yeah I got dropped off back here :)
Today was seriously the most beautiful day. Autumn is amazing anyway with all the golden leaves but today there was a cloudless blue sky and it was so warm. All the leaves were on the ground and were really crispy and crunchy and it was so so so nice.
I had a really good time and Greta and Ted invited me to a bible study at their house on Tuesday night although it's the last one as they're moving to America soon...but it'S literally like 100 metres down my road :) Another thing I'm doing on Tuesday is there's a prayer breakfast every Tuesday run by the OSM (equivalent to UCCF CU in England) so I'm going to go along to that too I think - only issue is that it starts at 7am and it's not particularly near to where I live :(:(:(
never mind alles gut :D