yeah - not sure where to start. i have many random things to say tonight. this may get long and ugly...

first i guess congratulations are an order to steven (lotsa) bowers and kim bunyard! somehow along the course of the weekend maybe - they got engaged. never thought this would happen in my life - but now it has. im happy for my boy. miss you bro - and loads of luck to ya...

the weekend. wow. what can i say. it was amazing for the most part. and really sad at the same time. anyway - to sum up. friday - the usual. hanging with the boys at herolds and leaving early so that i can get up decently early to go to kutna hora. so saturday we set off. kutna hora is a small town about 40km outside of prague. at one point in time it was a super important city with as many people as london in the 14th century. we saw a few old churches and the town. there is one ossuary there made with bones from over 40k people. really crazy and kinda spooky. but cool at the same time. so check out the pics - click on the link. and there is an amazingly beautiful old cathedral there. we had some snow ball fights, walked around and just had a really good day. it was chewy and myself along with chris, sylvie, georgie and loren.

so saturday night - got invited to a party at a few of my firends house. loren and i were only about 3 hours late - so i figured that we didnt do so bad. anyway - it was such a blessing - because i met 3 british girls who were just an amazing encouragement to me. they were just visitng a friend and we had a great time. so amazing the conversation that god allowed me to have with them and that you can connect with people you dont even really know - because you are on the same page with god. i know i will see them again soon.

sunday church was maybe the best that i have attended since i have been here. it meant a whole lot to me. this is something that i havent really been able to say in a long long time. we did communion in 5 small groups with about 10 in each. we served each other and before we drank the wine - we all just shared some things in our life - then prayed. just really amazing. meant so much. plus the british girls were in our group as well as my best friend loren. (more about her shortly...) the kicker of the night was we had a catholic priest to tell us about advent. only he really just touched on that and totally blew my mind. he said things that i thought only i thought. i was smiling so big - and loren and the brits kept turning around looking at me to see my face because i had had this same conversation with them the night before and loren has heard it all from me about 100 times. guess it made me feel so good to hear that i am not the only one who thinks this stuff - and a catholic priest at that! so freaking crazy. anyway - more later - because him and i are having coffee at his huge church by the castle this week. im am stoked for sure.

loren. what can i say. i had to watch a friend leave prague this weekend. loren is one of the most amazing girls that i have ever met. we instantly became best friends and got to hang out quite a lot. she is now is portugal working with young life as a missionary there. the kicker is that she hasnt even started college yet. she took a year off after high school to do this. i shudder to think what i would have been like trying to do that right out of high school. maturity beyond her years - that much is certain. i am so glad to have met her. i know i will see her again - but it was hard to let her go. she just left yesterday - but the day was pretty tough for me knowing she left. she was the first girl that i really connected with here. i love having friends who are girls - and she is awesome. anyway - pray for her as she goes and does what god wants her to do.

so enough for now. im exhausted - plus this internet at this dang cafe isnt so cheap....