long timey...no talkey....

Yes, folks.  The faithful writing you were accustomed to last year is gone.  I've become officially a "bad blogger."  So, let's make a deal.  I am going to do my best to write something at least twice a month.  If I do more, let's just say I've hit a hot streak.... but let's not get our hopes up.

Monday it snowed for the first time this winter.  (Is it officially winter?)  Here are some glorious testimonies to the winter wonder:

I must say, there is something to snow.  It always lifts my spirits.  I suppose at this moment, being in Germany, the joy is that snow means it's not raining.  But there is also something beautiful to the way it works; the way snow mimics forensic justification... yup, just went there.  Well, if that's too much.  The way snow recalls Paul's words that we are clothed in Christ by faith.

I need a dryer.  Simple as that.  I spend one day every two-ish weeks staring at my clothes drying on a rack in the middle of my small apartment.  I need a dryer.  Something that gives me the security that I don't smell like mildew.  That's the biggest problem I have with my singleness.  I can't tell anymore if I smell.  I mean, I tend to lean toward the "Peter always smells" side of life.  But, I really can't tell.  I can tell when I am talking to myself.  That's easy.  But smelliness.... not so easy.

The past month has been filled with traveling.  Kristi met me in Mainz, and we did a little concert for the KiAMainz people at the Komoto Cafe.  It was a lot of fun. (check the videos below) The next weekend I got a phone call from Anemone from KiAFrankfurt.  On Wednesday I was on a train, and that evening I played a real-deal concert at the Berliner Bar.  I played till I was repeating songs.  It was TONS of fun.  They loved it.  I loved it.  Too bad the videos didn't come out.  (I've posted a photo for proof.)  Who would of thought I would be playing my music in German bars?  Not me.  They've asked me if I'd like to come back and play in a cafe grand opening in January and again at the Berliner Bar.  Definitely.  [I might even have the chance to get in a studio!]

the Berliner Bar

Monday I sent out an application to be a teaching fellow at the ECLA in Berlin.  Man I would love this one.  But it is truly testing my faith.  Worry and doubt have crept in.  [oh, and sorry mom, this might mean I spend another two years in Germany, but look on the bright side: I'll probably visit more than I did while in Iowa.)

ok....nothing much more to say.  Spending Thanksgiving in Prague.  ...sure hope I don't get my pockets picked. ...stinkin' Czechs!