On June 1st, I landed in Prague and met up with Johnny, Mana, Gwynne, Danny, Evan, and Ben. These are the names of the people on my intern team for Slovenia. Our team left the airport, running, in competition with the other 16 intern teams who will be serving all over Eastern Europe. It was so encouraging for me to see that around 90 other young people decided to give up their summers to serve Jesus in this part of the world.
Our competition was called, the "Amazing Race" (like the TV show), and lasted three days. We traveled on foot, by tram, train, and bus all over Prague (the coolest city ever), other towns in the Czech Republic, and Poland. We had to travel to different locations and complete certain tasks. For instance, I had to go inside of a Spa in Prague and get a 15 min. Thai Fish Pedicure. This is a process where I literally stuck my feet in a large fish tank, and hundreds of little sucker-fish ate the dead skin off of my feet. Enjoy the photos (if you ever see them), because I will never do this again :p. These activities allowed us to build relationships with our intern teammates, and it worked. After 24 hours with my team, I felt like I had known them for months. Long story, short...my team won 2nd place :). Go Slovenia!!
Prague is probably the coolest city I have ever been to. There is so much culture and beauty at every turn. I kind of wish I could have sat and soaked in the city instead of literally run through it, but the race was a blast! I used a disposable camera to take pictures there because I didn't want to carry my Nikon everywhere. We'll see how those pictures turned out... :/ I also got to go to Poland for the first time!
We have been training at a beautiful conference center in Czech Republic for the past couple days with all of the JV interns. We have really enjoyed spending time with each other. I will be training in Czech Republic until Wednesday!
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