It may not be a total lapse in my integrity, but I definitely need to write a follow up to the previous entry since I didn’t do something I said I’d do: I didn’t go to Rotterdam after all.
I went to bed Friday night, realizing it was too late to call Frank and tell him I didn’t think it was wise to travel by travel roundtip for five and a half to maybe six hours by train, just to spend maybe 4 or 5 hours at the cafe, since in less than two weeks I’ll be living in Rotterdam anyway, and will be at the cafe as often as my little tiny heart desires–as well as living 20 minutes away from the cafe. I called him around 8am on Saturday morning and he understood. I’ll see him Thursday in Hilversum for our next Summer School planning meeting, and he will go over the 6 page contract with me, since it’s all in Dutch and I don’t sign things without knowing what I’m signing.
So I mentioned the Dutch heatwave in the last entry, which is no big deal to me since Pensacola was like four times worse as far as the humidity goes, but we had a reprieve in the last day or two with some rain and now things are a bit cooler. Apparently this is the second hottest summer recorded in the Netherlands behind one year in the 1970s. Dutch people I guess aren’t used to hot weather. But, the rain didn’t come until just after working at the Vox on Saturday (the local Youth For Christ in Leeuwarden, I’ve mentioned a few times before). They’re painting and doing touch-ups, and Friday was preparation day, and Saturday was the day much priming and painting was accomplished. Since I was up early enough and was ready to spend my day working, I decided to go with Dan and Stevie Heiks to help with it. It wasn’t anything physically demanding, but with the heat, it was definitely an exhausting day. It felt great to just chill that night and I probably had the best night of sleep I’ve had since before the heatwave.
Well, as per the title of this blog, there’s one more thing I’ve told several people I’d get done, but haven’t, and it’s my newsletter which is probably a really important thing to get working on since I just paid over $200 for one thousand pages of the really cool letterhead it’s going to go on and the personalized remit envelopes.
Not much longer ’till the Summer School and my move to Rotterdam, so if you want to read some awesome studies or catch up with me, then you better do it for the next week or so b/c after that I won’t have much time to do anything other than post pictures online for a few weeks. I have a couple of things burning on my heart, and some serious downtime this week (unless I occupy it with somethign else) and have at least two things I want to study out and maybe post about. I spend too much time talking with Dan, who I can’t persuade yet to start a blog, but since we’re both teachers and clearly love studying the Word. We often get into these awesome edifying conversations about things God is showing us in the Word. Our latest chats seem to be something along the lines of “if the pre-tribulation rapture is true, then how come….[latest thing one of us has read in the Word that we don't have an answer for if that doctrine is correct, which neither one of us thinks is]“.
Anyway, that newsletter is really beckoning me. Stay posted.
Stevie B
