This weekend (23rd-25th Oct) was the first of two weekends away that the GBU in Belgium have each year. It was in a Salvation Army owned building called Villa Meyerbeek in Spa, which is a town in vaguely the south east of the country (I think!) about 2 hours away by train, from Brussels.
There were about 25 of us I think, including staff and staff’s children, there for the weekend, to study the book of Revelation (l’Apocalypse) together, taught by a guy called John Mead.
The weekend was great! Personally, I was expecting to be absolutely wiped out by the end of it because it would be the first time I had been completely immersed in the language, pretty much non-stop, for longer than 4 or 5 hours at once. Thankfully though (thank you for praying) it was fine. Although I was pretty tired on Sunday morning, but that was probably caused more as a result of lack of sleep the night before. The clocks going back an hour didn’t really help as we all reset our watches at about 10/11pm so just spent an extra hour being awake, rather than being asleep.
Saturday night we had a murder mystery … that was probably the most tiring thing I did all weekend! The guys I was in a team with all took it really seriously, and I probably wasn’t the most useful person to be with lol, but we did still correctly find out who the murderer was… (Tim!!)
Anyway, all in all was a really good weekend away, was really nice to spend lots of time with students and make friends and just chat in a really relaxed and unhurried way. Hopefully will have been a useful weekend for me, both in terms of relationships, and French.
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