It’s now almost a month since I’ve been back in Austria and so far it’s been really great! We are now pretty much at the end of the summer season here which means that this week is the last of the week long camps and we are now moving into the fall Bible School season. This group of people that have just arrived at Tauernhof will be here until December so it will be an interesting change in dynamic to go from having different guests every week to having long term guests here. I’m really looking forward to it!
The last month has definitely been really busy as I’ve been adjusting to life here again with different people, a different schedule and some different rules which had to be changed due to Covid. But this last week was really good as I finally felt more comfortable and less overwhelmed by so many new things that had changed since I was last here.
But now with students here it will be great to get to know them and have a more consistent family feel with people outside of the staff here. We also have new volunteers here now than we did in the summer. They’ve been here 2 weeks and I’m really glad that we are getting along super well so far, I’m really happy that I get along especially well with my 3 new housemates.
These next few weeks are all about learning new things for everyone here. For me it will be learning to work with a different team than I worked with for the last 8 months, for the new staff it will be learning their new roles and for the students it will be learning the new routines and the way we do things here. Some of the students who came from Canada (and a few other non European Countries) have had to be quarantined for the last few days here while waiting for the results of a Covid test that they took upon arrival. Thankfully today we found out that they all tested negative so they can join the rest of the students for regular activities which simplifies a lot of things.
This week the students will do a variety of outdoor kind of sporty activities such as hiking and climbing to bond them as a group before they start lectures and family groups and that sort of thing next week. For the staff this week its all about getting to know the students and making adjustments to our routine to prepare for this new season. So far its going really really well and I’m so excited for what these next twelve weeks will bring!
Stay tuned for some photos of recent adventures that I’ve had while here in Austria!
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