Academie de louange 2007

That is the reason why Torgeir, Anne Marie and me went to Paris, a worship camp thing. The main thing though was to see how the mission field is compared the the english. It's interesting to see what the differences and similarities are. Last Tuesday, the two Paris volunteers, Ingeborg and Ragnhild(the pic under), met us smiling at the train station. Ragnhild's boyfriend, Leif Magne was also there. After a few days of just getting to know each other and central Paris, we left for Academie de louange. It was a camp for teenagers, they were about 16 and 17 i guess. It lasted from Saturday til Tuesday, yesterday that is.
Hmm, what can i say, it was great! Ingeborg got sick though, the day before leaving. She sat on the train with a 40 degrees temperature, not something i envy. After lying in bed the first day, she got on her feet and continued being the extremely funny person she usually is:)

The one thing that we (T, AM and me) were both exited and worried about, was the language! None of us speak french! But, i had heard rumours about some of the youth being malagasy, and we were hoping that they all knew some english. We were lucky:) There was one girl from Germany, so me and Torgeir got to practice our german (i spoke english..) Some of the cool guys spoke spanish, so Torgeir got to show of, hehe. And, i got to speak malagasy! I promise you, the way one of the malagasy girls reacted when i spoke malagasy to hear, i thought i was gonna wet my pants! I asked her in french what her name was, she said Misa. It's a common name in Madagascar, so i asked in malagasy if she could speak malagasy, hehehe:) You should have seen the look on her face!!

Enough about that, i'm tired. I should get unpacked, that is truly the most boring part of traveling, you have to unpack...

Teachers like it when their students can narrow down materiel to one word. If i was to do that, it had to be the word "laughter". I can't remember when i last laughed this much!! I had muscle pains in my stomach! Thanks goes out to the fantastic people i got to hang out with, i've had so much fun!!