Friday, Saturday, and most of Sunday

Ok, so Friday started with a prayer breakfast with the SMD students. I don't remember if I covered this or not, but the SMD is a student mission group on the Rostock campus here. They were cool, and we talked a lot. Learned a cool pre-eating song. Jon and I agree that we need to initiate pre-eating songs in the US. After that, we went shopping downtown. Some of the peeps picked up scarfs and jerseys for the soccer teams. I did not. After that, we went back to Toitenwinkel for the final Bistro. We set up, practiced a drama, then went to the soccer fields to kick around a ball for a little bit. After that, we met some of the local students and brought them back to the church and played some volleyball. After that, we ate and Troy shared the gospel with the group, then we broken into small groups to talk about it. A couple of the kids were totally into it, which was awesome, and they even showed up at church on Sunday. After small groups, two of the students pulled out an american football and began tossing it around. There's an american football league in this state in Germany, and it turns out that Friday is the Rostock seniors against some other neighboring city team. So we accepted an invitation to the game. After that, we went home, did devotions, and crashed.
Saturday was pretty much the football game. Prior to that, a few of us went to town to do more shopping. My cold was starting to get pretty intense, so I went in search of decongestant. I stepped into a drug store, coveyed that I was sick, and I needed drugs. The lady seemed confused by what kind of sickness I had. I tried to communicate a cold. This didn't go well. In the end, she gave me a box of drugs, and I've been taking them. I haven't found that they help a lot, but they aren't hurting.
The football game was pretty funny. Imagine a country whose primary sport is soccer. Now imagine that at every american football game, the announcer has to explain the general concept of the game and a rough layout of the rules (see photo). Just about every kick was eight feet in the air and straight. On one extra point attempt, a defensive lineman was actually pegged in the face. But it was fun to watch and hang out with our new friends. And we were interviewed for NDR, which is like the local northern Germany news channel. That was all of Saturday.
Today, we went to church and played a song for the congregation. I played drums, which was cool, but rough. All around, it was neat, especially because we were seeing some of our friends from earlier in the week. After church, we went to lunch with the SMD peeps, which was fun. Then we met up with Mike and Simone and their children. We walked around downtown in extreme wind (On a side note, Jerome, tons of people were out windsurfing and kiteboarding on the baltic. Super intense :) and we eventually took shelter in a small Italian restaraunt. We chatted for a bit, then headed back to the Hostel. That's where we are now. I'm going to go eat German chocolate and give a devotion. Later.