i am very sorry that i haven't been blogging, but i've been WICKED BUSY not that thats your fault but still...it's not like i've been trying to ignore you. ok and now i must tell you some things very quick and then finish my written account (oooh "written acount"?, sounds fancy) of last mission team. first i must tell you why i've been so dang busy, first of all i'm just lazy, and also we had an estonian named karl-gustav move in with us (yes that is his whole first name, he is neither karl nor gustav, he's karl-gustav), or to be more specific, me. i live in the basement with him, which is fun (in an odd sort of way) but just makes me wish i spoke much better estonian. and also i've had tons of schoolwork and (something i'm very excited about) i am officially the third (you know it baby) best player at yugioh. i know ur over there saying "third? what kind of loser are you?", but hey, it's better than averaging six place. and also now i have made friends with several people and we hang out and play yugioh together, which isn't work excactly, but as a missionary isn't there like ministry by presence or whatever? like just my being there helps? well whatever. and now, to finish writing about last mission team before i leave for the next one tommorow.
so in the morning we woke up and went to the corps and had a nice breakfast, and then, the open airs (meetings outside) began!! i love doing open airs, especially when i get to play the drum, be in a drama that uses some of my favorate music and hand out fliers!! whats more fun than that? natta! so as we went to the first place to do our stuff the officer who was with us (who had a guitar) started playing "oh when the saints...", you know what song i mean right? and so i picked it up on my drum and eero played his flute and everyone else sang! and then she got out a kazoo and played kazoo while playing guitar! so that was really cool, and you know i think everyone who saw us just stared and stared, and you know thats what i live for. so then we get to the market where we're gonna do our stuff and i dance, play drum, do dramas, and give an object testimony (using my drum and a borrowed tambourine). and i also handed out fliers which was fun becuase i got to see all the different ways people would blow me off. some people would just go "unh" and push past me, others would say "ei, kiitos" (no thanks), and one old woman litterally grabbed her husband and steared him away when she saw me coming. but then theres always the good times, like there was this one girl (well, not girl, 20ish) who was working in the market and she kept watching us when there was no one at her store, and when i was handing out fliers she would smile at me and actually laughed a few times at the way people blew me off (some actually got quite creative, taking a flier, instantly giving it back like it was dieases ridden, then asking for another, then giving it back with a polite nod of thier head). and so of course at the end i made a point of very nicely going up to her and giving her a flier, which she took and read, and when i gave it to her she kiitos (thank you) which was the most polite anyone had been to me all day.
so then, next place we go to another place and do another open air and its basicly the same thing except we were more tired, and we ran out of fliers at the end (thanks to eero and me handing them out to anything that moved;-)). for the first time that day i had someone rip up our flier right after me giving it to them, but oh well, what you gonna do? so then after that we went backt to the corps and did a meeting for kids, which was fun becuase we tought the kids our "official" mission team line dance. and they sort of did something between falling over and...well falling over, but they wnjoyed it so it was good. so then after that we go back to the hostel.
so as miika and evelin had another "serious talk" of the kind not to be interupting by annoyances like me i went and hung out with anneli and masha, which turned out to be kind of a challenge. you see even though they both speak wonderful english they both prefer russian (at least when they're together) and so i decided something very important, "I SHALL LEARN RUSSIAN!!!!!" and so i had them expand my russian vocabulary (which before consisited of "yes", "no", and a cuss word). and i learned cup (krushka), water (vadaa), nothing (nichewo), as well as the all important, shut up (zat kinnish, which i probably shouldn't say becuase they later told me it was very impolite), and what ever (nwe shto). and i also learned that masha hates the chemical brothers song "galvanize", which if i pinch my nose and sing in a deepish voice i sing quite a good imitation of, so i tortured her by singing that. so then we went to bed and slept peacefully.
so next day we do the meeting at the corps, mrs. wittenberg preached and we all did our mission team stuffand then after that....we left. and on the boat i at least had a great time. i danced a waltz with evelin (we bumped into pretty much everyone in the room becuase i'm such a bad dancer) and i sang a back street boys song with her on kareoke. and so that whole thing was very nice for me becuase it was my first time really dancing with a girl (no surprise there really), and it was my first (and no doubt last) time singing kareoke with a girl as a duet type thing. so after that very exciting boat trip we all went home and slept.....
and now some important things to mention, after mission team miika and evelin experienced some "temporary insanity", but thats done now (thank god). and anneli and evelin went to america to work at a camp (much to my dismay). so please do me a huge favor and pray for anneli and evelin, becuase first of all they're going to a foreign (to them) country, and also they're georgous and will be swarmed by all the camp guys and they might be tough but still i worry about them. so please pray for them, and if you ever happen to be in ohio and see some estonian twins shoot all guys within a 10 mile radius and ask them how they're doing. so thats it, i'm exuasted, goodnight.
