I dare you to move, I dare you to move,
I dare you to lift yourself up off the floor
I dare you to move, I dare you to move
Like today never happened, Today never happened before
This was the song I was listening to before I came over. [Picture: having teabreak and the colleague
in the middle was going to leave us for another department so she made a cake n brought from home. The one beside her have a bowl on her table with sweets & chocolate always. Then the guy beside me is my closest swiss friend. We have been working together for a few saturdays due to a tight project. The senior on on my left is my direct boss who tells me from time to time that I need to visit parts of swiss] Now that I'm here, it does really feel challenging to move after I've flew the 13hrs flight here. Well I guess it's mainly language barrier. But a light went off in me this week & I find it timely also... I was feeling a little tired going to church on sunday since I travel 3hrs for church (ICF Zurich) and spent 2-3hrs there. Also with reaching home at 10 n needing to wake up at 6 so that I can be in office at 7-7.30, I do feel quite tired.
I'm going to join a english cell or small group (ICF St Gallen) from the same church but different location. Thank God it's kicking off next friday. It'll be at my place and would be 4-5 people. It's an additional dream fulfilled. I have always thought of my place as a meeting place for cell since it's so big. =) Amazing also, I was telling a friend that I was planning to switch to the nearer church n she said to pray for me, then m
y swiss cell leader just called me today during NDP.
The big move to make is to switch to join the ICF church in St Gallen for service and I'm going to listen to german sermon (I tried once n caught very little. But praise n worship was a blend of english n german which is cool). Reasons for the switch was that I wanted to build more friendship, hang around longer after service and participate in various ministries soon. I want to laugh at myself, cause I lack patience at times but now, I'm going to have small group ahead of attending the ICF St Gallen church. It's amazing, me & my swiss cell leader connected thru call n then add each other on facebook. [Picture: ICF Zurich. I'm looking to visit other ICF also when possible, they have daughter churches in 20 locations mostly in Switzerland n Germany plus a few in other countries. They model quite closely to Hillsong. I like their welcome bar after service and they run the bar themselves. They have really nice songs also. I went for the german service n was a little distracted during praise & worship as I was learning german n trying to worship which after a while, I stick to worshipping.]
[Picture: My friend injured his shoulder, thus he a pillow to help rest himself during work. Another
colleague used his mobile phone to take a picture of him after lunch & he was pretending to sleep (in black on the screen).Then after a week, I took this picture of him but he forgot to close his eyes.]
Beside that, I'm engaging in more sports. I have not used my rollerblades yet but have been running, cycling n went once to free gym lesson. The gym lesson of body shaping was conducted by a colleague in the village gym. I was half flat after the 1hr lesson especially the sit up portion which I stopped many times. Both running & cycling have been really fun because, I explore new places with each running or cycling trip. I'm waiting for a hiking guide book to come & then along with buying a map, I would go into some hiking. Just today after NDP, I went to a nearby town but took me 50mins of cycling up & down thru roads, dirt tracks & gravel tracks that are both filled with horse droppings every once in a while. I must comment that the swiss have well labelled their sig
nages for adventure tracks (hiking, cycling, mountain biking & canoeing). On my way back, I took a different route as I thought a wrong turn but with memories of some towns & villages and seeing the signs, I got back just on time. One thing I should continue is to climb again and also hike hills, then mountains.I'm training for some races, one is 23 Aug 5.5km run and the other is a trialathon event (my kind, running, cycling & blading). Hmm, if they have a category for asians, maybe there's a chance on winning since there would be only a few, haha. [Picture: This was part of their national day celebration. The church organized an event in a farm and a lot of people turned up. I got to know a few more people n swiss here so it was cool]
Looking into attending some courses here also like maybe driving, swiss cooking or try a few horse riding. But got to be selective as it'll cost. Hmm, must admit miss home a bit and also some comfort at home like finding $S3-5 food and shops not closing on sundays. I told my colleague my life flipped opposite from S'pore. When I was in S'pore, I go out a lot and seldom eat home. But over here, I seldom go out and mostly eat at home (or bring home coook food). The more funny part was when I was in S'pore, I worked like a swiss (come in on time & leave on time) but in Swiss, I worked like a s'porean, clocking abt 4-8hrs more per week. But I'm quite amazed at my job. This project that is in thailand, they would be sending the machines in December only cause a lot more planning going on still. Thus when I'm back mid of next year, the flour mill would have probably started for 1-2 months (assuming).
Before I go, thank you all for connecting via MSN, facebook and other means. I'm blessed by the sermons in FCBC and learning to die to myself (I do see some changes in my life as in Swiss, there's a need to depend on God, people here and family n friends back at home. I decided not to give myself excuse that I'm a weak language learner thus would learn more german & swiss german which is like learning mandarin n hokkien at the same time, haha). I got a call thru my Swiss number today (from home), my 18 months nephew still remembers me & can call me 'Jiu Jiu'. Thank God for the cell group that is going to be planted, God bless the leader as he leads the international smallgroup in ICF St Gallen.
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