Monday, June 9
Dear friends and fellow alumni,
It is hard to believe that our trip is winding down to the last few days. It has gone incredibly fast. Today we had free time and some of us spent the day going to the top of Europe, others to Grindelwald, some of us stayed and rested in the beauty of the Alps at Wengen. We all seemed to end in a happy frame of mind today.
Now we are all watching the national soccer game and cheering on the Dutch team -- and they are winning--with our bus driver. They WON !!!!!
On our way here we went ot the oldest still meeting Mennonite congregation. Many of us are able to connect to people we have met in the past or families of trainees. We have seen family names on signs and had a few minutes to walk through a graveyard and found family names there. It is humbling to see where our families fit into history.
We are all taking many pictures, talking about returning, and just thoroughly enjoying every thing. We started mostly as strangers and are realizing that as we end we are going away with many new friends.
This could be my last travel journal by e-mail until I hit the ground in the USA so good-bye for now.
previous updates - June 3, June 7