Germany team
July 9,2007
Janae Nolt

Hello dear Family and Friends!!
I am attempting to write this e-mail for the second time! I am praying it works this time!!
This week has flown by!! I cannot believe how amazingly fast it has past!! Monday was like no other Monday I've experienced here in Halle! Val, Jen, Brent and I went grocery shopping for the week. Since we did not have much time on Saturday to do that!! It was a lot nicer with four people hauling the groceries! I enjoyed that very much!! I cannot say that I will be heart-broken about filling the backpacks full with food, lugging them onto the tram (which is full of people), and then carrying them up our 60-something number of steps! I look forward to having a car to go buy groceries when I return home!!
On Tuesday Brent, Jen, Shaina and I went to record songs with Andi's old band, Blooming Desert. It was fun!! We sang the choir in the background for two of their songs! I enjoyed the time getting to know the band better!
Wednesday.....was not like any other 4th of July for us. A newspaper reporter came to interview us as a team. I could not stay for the whole things because I was asked to sing by myself for the Blooming Deserts CD. That will definitely make you feel more confident about singing in front of people! Man!! I have learned a lot from that! After the recording time, I met up with my team at the Norton's house since we were having a 4ht of July celebration! It was nothing like our American party's for the 4ht of July, but it was still fun!! At one point...there were more Germans than Americans there!! I enjoyed the evening relaxing with my friends!!
Friday, the whole team plus Miriam and her friend Amanda went to Buchenwald. A concentration camp. I can't describe the things I saw. Pictures will not be able to tell the stories. It is something that you need to seem for yourself to get the full impact. I was tired after we left there. Fortunately I was able to take a nap on the way home because Brent, Jen, Shaina and I were having some of our friends over in the evening. Our friends stayed until 1:20 a.m. in the morning!! It was a good time for us to have with our friends though!
this coming week is going to be full of me running around, getting the last minute things for gifts and all that loose ends tied up!! I kind of wish I was home already without all this running around like a chicken with its head cut off!!
May God bless you in your week and all the things you do, may He guide you! Have a great week!!
-Janae

PRAISES!!!!!
-We had Stephanie come to our English bible study....that is no more...but Val was able to take her to House group instead!!!!!!!!
-Our health has been good!
-packing is coming along!

PRAYER REQUESTS!
-Eric's finger! ....It's still a little painful and purple!!
-That we will be able to get everything done before we leave
-That our time with friends and host families will have good closure!
-We would still be united as a team!
-We continue to grow closer to God!
-Our safety on the flight home!!!!!!!!!!
-Our health!!!!