I am adapting to trying new things... This adventure you are reading about helps you understand some of them, but what I have been really amazed about this first 6 months we have been here is the intensity with which Hungarian students study.
Not only have most students been studying much harder than anyone I have ever known during the school year, but they continue to do so in the summer. Then they also go to camps, (if the family can afford it), during the summer to continue studying subjects they want to or need to in a more intensive manner! Good heavens! There really are younger and older people who DO this!
This is where English Camp comes in. Students voluntarily come to English camp for really intensive English classes and free time for about a week at Lakitelek from all over Hungary and the areas where Hungarian is spoken. As you may recall from some of my postings, nearly 50% of the jobs available to Hungarians need a good solid working knowledge of English. Well as you may know, we do teach intensive classes here, but we use the Bible as the text for them to read. This not only expands their vocabularies further, but it helps get the word of God into their hearts in some way or another.
This week, I have had the privilege of being called a surrogate mom to a young lady who's mom has just abandoned her; comforted another young lady whose mother suddenly passed away this winter; helped to blow away a group of kids through sharing real life with them; helped to give numerous testimonies of how to live life out loud with my husband and the campers, as well as get to know many really neat people and teach classes. There will be pictures soon, But for now, we still need your prayers for all these campers. Some are adults older than us, and then it goes down to kids in the pre-teen years. Hearts and lives are being changed, praise God!
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