I'll
start with last weekend. The sun was shining, and my roommates and I
woke up early (for a Saturday morning) around 8am to clear the room for
mold cleaning! (We had to take out everything from the shelves, and
take out our mattresses, blankets, basically everything so that it would
get really clean and nothing would get bleached!) Thankfully the
servant hearted staff had a go at the mold and Kirsten bought some
croissants for us as we sat out in the sun with some coffee. Word on
the street was that we were going to go to a little outdoor market where
we could get some good deals! So we headed over there, a van full of
us, and we got to an empty lot, where the market was supposed to be.
Disappointed, we headed home. Some people went to the mall, but me and
some girls had a better idea- rent some scooters and ride around the
city and head down to St Jean de Luz! It sounded perfect! So we headed
out, and finally found the scooter rental place (after we got a little
lost, but then met the most adorable French grandma who helped us.) So I
start speaking to this French owner of the shop, who tells me that they
only have bicycles...so...another dead end. We talked for a while and
he made it clear that he really didn't think it was safe for us to go
out on the scooters, he didn't trust us, long story short. (Although I
have driven a scooter in Cambodia multiple times, if he only understood
the traffic I have been in! ;) Well, thank-you nice man for either
caring for our safety, or the safety of your motorcycles, anyways,
disappointed again, we thought we would not waste this beautiful day
and we decided to take a bus to St Jean de Luz, a city near Biarritz.
Turns out we get to the bus stop and there are no busses coming for a
while. So we spontaneously hopped on a little bus to Bidart, and the
kind bus driver dropped us off at the beach there!
So
we hung out at the beach, it was a little windy, so we headed up into
town, after stopping at the viewpoint over the ocean, the mountains of
Spain in the background, so beautiful. As we walked around Bidart it was
like we were in a movie, everything about it was just so perfect! We
started seeing these posters for "Carnaval" that was happening, in
Bidart, on the very day we were there..and we started hearing some music
and as we followed it, we basically stumbled upon Carnaval! There was
confetti, live music and dancing, and lots of booths and candy! It was
the most bizarre, yet awesome moment! We thought we were in a movie!
We
were absolutely starving, and what do you know, we stumbled upon the
most amazing restaurant. It was again so surreal and we felt so blessed.
It was the most delicious food I have had since coming here, and for
totally reasonable prices! It was so awesome. After, we headed back to
the carnival and had some crepes, and got some pictures with people, and
got our faces painted!
We all felt that God
knew that this was happening and he wanted to bless us by leading us
there and totally surprising us. And surprised we were! It was such a
great day.
Also, another crazy story, was that
all my finances have been raised for outreach! I woke up the morning of
the deadline, with about 900 euros that I needed. (This was Monday the
beginning of this week.) And I wasn't nervous or anxious about it, I
trusted that God would provide, just moreso in the next few days or
week. Anyways, that day I got a small donation, and that night the teams
got together and really prayed and asked God for the money to come, and
it came! Through many different people I raised about 1500 euros!
Praise God!
The Surf and Snow DTS that our base
runs in October returned from their outreach and so we have had lots and
lots of people in our little house this past week! On Thursday night
they had their "graduation" night and we had a nice dinner and dance
party! Meeting them has been so fun, such a cool group of people, wish
we had longer to get to know them, but they are all leaving and heading
home within the next couple days. It's cool that the different DTSs
overlap, so when we get back from outreach it will be the same thing,
and the Music DTS that starts when we leave will be there.
Thanks for reading! Until next post! (Some more pics below!)
Steph
Cool graffitti in Bidart!
Looking out at the ocean in Bidart!
The restaurant down the street from Carnaval.
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