Can be very random at times. Yesterday was pretty normal for the most part until the evening.
After my awesome uphill bike home from Neuhamsbach where one of my ladies live I was to go and have my bike repaired. You see my gears don’t shift too well – sometimes not at all. Sometimes I’ll shift and then like a minute later they’ll change again. One time my chain fell off. Sometimes my bike clicks until I fiddle with the gears a bit. I think by the end of the year I won’t want to part with this bike, but right now if someone offered me a new awesome bike I would defs take it.
Anyways so on Tuesday night my pastor had talked with one of the gents in the choir and he agreed to fix my bike! I brought it over last night with a plethora of tools – because I didn’t really know what he said on Tuesday night and I thought he told me to bring tools.
So I arrive at his home and he escorts my bike into his garage meanwhile asking if I’ll need a bike for a while. I’m wondering how long this will actually take. I mean I assumed we were going to be fixing this thing tonight. Ah NO. So instead he says he’ll work on it and I can take this OTHER bike he has in the garage. It’s real old school where the pedals are the brakes when you pedal backwards and it’s a “ladies” bike, so the frame scoops down so you don’t have to swing your leg around the bike. He’s showing this little bike off and then asks if I have some time to meet his wife and have a drink or something. Okay sure.
So I enter their home meet the wife and we get talking. We enjoy some wine, I attempt to make real conversation but really my German still feels so limited. All in all though what a gracious and welcoming couple. I mean this man too has agreed to fix my bike for no cost other than one of his bikes.
But what I’ve realized through this is that ANYTHING can happen. Before I moved to Germany so many random things didn’t happen to me. After a month I have so many stories of my mistakes, miscommunications, grace moments and all. I’ve walked into the wrong house, I’ve agreed to things that I have NO idea what they are, I go with the flow all the time. And the flow has taken me to a lot of places and fortunately I haven’t come out yet and neither have I been hurt by it.
So I’ve realized that until I understand this language fully I will continually be put into situations that confuse me, fluster me and boggle me. But maybe once I do get the language these things will still happen.
All in all I’m very thankful for these experiences, God’s blessings and the kindness of the people around me.
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