A week-ish in...

You would think that after a week we would be settled in to our new lives. Fact is, everything in France takes twice as long! After 6 days, Beth, Chelsea and I have officially moved into our apartment, but we have not had time to unpack. Living out of a suite case is annoying, and I am very ready to unpack and finish setting up the apartment!

I have had time to get some groceries, each purchase including some chocolate!

It is my addiction. Dark is best.

We also spent a lot of time spent a lot of time at IKEA - like 7 hours. What the moses? We did get a lot done, but I was wiped outtt....

This past Sunday, we finally made it to Paris! We hit up all the major tourist sites:

As a team, we are currently in Belgium for vision casting, team bonding and strategizing the next year. I am excited for all that we get to be apart of in the operations aspect! We have office orientation next week, which includes meeting national directors, national day of prayer for CCC staff, and job placement [which I am most excited for because I will finally know what I am doing!]

This coming Saturday, we are going back to Paris for a bike auction! Not sure what to expect about this specific event, but I love to negotiate! I am very excited about buying a bike for various reasons: because everyone, EVERYONE, rides bikes, its a great means for transportation, and I personally have not owned a bike since about 10th grade - long story short: it fell off our car on a trip, and I haven't bought another since.

Some prayer request:

- Continued team bonding - they are all great! [and I don't have to say that because they follow this blog :) ]

- Time in the word

- Maintaining an eternal perspective while here on STINT

Love you all!

Hannah

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p.s.s. All photos are taken by me :)

Welcome to France

Phew... it has been a crazy 2 days....

Because I am still very tired and still plagued with jetleg, I will list off the various events that have taken place since arriving to France:

Arrival, luggage, waiting 2 hours to be picked up, lots of driving around, seeing our new apartment!, my first croissant and crepe, sleeping 13 hours and still tired, car accident [other guys fault, we and our car are alright, he was hurt and his car is pry totaled], dealing with the French police - who are very friendly and helpful!

[side story: Beth, Chelsea and I were sitting in our car while Eric and Nalani talked with some of the police [there were about 9 present!] when one of them came up to our car to see if we were okay. He said something in French, to which we replied "Je...uhhh..um... je no....." He understood and responded "No boo-boo?" Fortunately, we were all okay and replied "Non" with thumbs up. Haha!! It was so funny!]

2.5 hours setting up back accounts, hauling a couch through Evry France via Life Agape [CCC] van, and finally painting my nails while watching the season opener of Glee.

Now for sleep. Much needed sleep.