Arrived!

We were descreasing altitude, and I am staring out of my window mesmerized by normal things -- a huge quary, a rail yard. Obviously, everything looks beautiful from above, but I was particularly entranced because these weren't just a quary and a rail yard -- this was a Lithuanian quary and a lithuanian rail yard. I'm also reasonably sure that I saw a house that my dad and I had just seen about 48 hours ago on Google Earth. White squarish with a blue roof. WOw.

God is awsome. Not only did he make these:



but litterally every thing went smoothly. I kept expecting something to go awfully wrong, but I met a bunch of kids heading to Vilnius with me at Chicago, plane left on time, I was able to sleep on the plane (thanks to tylenol pm!) and I met the lady next to me named Maria who didn't speak any English. And I got all my bags. Literally nothing bad happened. And now I'm in Lithuania!

Before we got on the plane from Warsaw to Vilnius, I overheard a man saying he was going to a University in Klaipeda, (which, by the way, I finally learned how to pronounce! CLAY-pe-dah) so I asked if he was going to LCC (I"m pretty sure there is not another university in the city). And he was! His name is Asher. He is from Iran. He became a Christian and left the country so he could study the bible. His family is Zorastrian. He's thirty-one and starting his bachelor's degree. He's very excited to spend time in a Christian environment. How cool! I realized how much i appreciate having grown up in an envirionment that nurtured my faith instead of not being able to talk about it without fear of being killed. He is going to be couch surfing until orientation starts in like 4 days. Hopefully I will see him at school!

So, for now, the US study abroad students are going to be in Vilnius for three days. Orientation starts on the 26th, and classes start on the 29th.

For tonight, we have dinner paid for us! Great! We're staying at a very lovely hostel, where I'm sitting right now :)

Weather: chilly, grey skies.
Status: tired, but overjoyed about where I'm at and the fact that everything is going so well! Praise God!
Favorite part of the day: Clouds.I did some meditating on the water cycle on the plane. We drink the same water that has been on the earth since Adam and Eve, the Ancietn Egyptians, Abe Lincoln... etc.
Lithuanian words I've learned:
Labas = hello
Achu = thank you [bless you!]
Polish word I learned:
[I have no clue how to spell it but it sounds like:] jin-COO-yay = thank you.