Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Not a great plan
I finally uploaded this picture from our trip to Munich. One couldn't expect a whole lot of service from a bus company with this name!
I love to go a-wandering...
If you love to go walking or hiking, you want to be in this part of the world. There are trails everywhere with signs to guide the way. There are even hiking maps available so you don't need to carry your GPS along with you! It's a wanderer's paradise.
Saturday, April 5, 2008
Friday, April 4, 2008
Munich part 2
I've changed my blog template and I'm not sure that I like it. Anyway, here are some pictures that the girls took on the way to and in Munich. I always enjoy their "impressions" of a new place.
Art attack
I was walking up the stairs at the school the other day, and I literally stopped dead in my tracks when I saw the art hanging in the stairwell. We've had some amazing student artists over the years and here's a sampling of the kind of talent we have this year.
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Yellow sack day
Today is another yellow sack day. It's not terribly exciting, but these yellow sacks pretty much control our lives so I thought it would be important to mention them. As you know, Germany leads the world (at least we think so!) in recycling and these yellow sacks play a large role in that. Everything that is plastic, metal, aluminum, carton...goes in the yellow sack (there's a list with pictures on the side so there's no excuse to mess up). You DO NOT put paper or just regular garbage in these sacks or you will get an embarrassingly large red sticker on the side and you'll have to haul that sack back to your house and sort through it. Not a happy scene. Anyway, the yellow sacks go out on the street about every 4 weeks or so. It's on the official calendar so you can't miss it. But if you do, you'll see the sacks going out so you just follow suit. Works for me!
Monday, March 31, 2008
The Bible
Printed on this wall, is the entire Bible. It was an amazing thing to see. This wall was actually a partition between our meeting room and the church. What a great way to fill white space!
The leavers
There's always a long line of people who leave Janz Team and BFA each year. There are 10 or 12 more that should have been in this line who were not at the conference.
We also said goodbye to our grads. Three of them were also not at the conference, so for us, this is a pretty big Janz Team graduating class.
We also said goodbye to our grads. Three of them were also not at the conference, so for us, this is a pretty big Janz Team graduating class.
Free time at the conference
On one of our free afternoons, we drove to this monastery which was about 10 minutes away. 
One round room housed a massive painting (painted on a round canvas) which had taken the artist 4 1/2 years to paint. It was a very whimsical approach to history. The colours were fab!
One round room housed a massive painting (painted on a round canvas) which had taken the artist 4 1/2 years to paint. It was a very whimsical approach to history. The colours were fab!
Mission Conference
On Wednesday afternoon we arrived in Swäbisch Gmünd where our mission conference was held this year. We had a lovely facility to enjoy, as well as a fantastic speaker (one of Howard's professors from his seminary days) and delicious food. It seems I mostly took pictures of us eating (which we seemed to do an awful lot of!) but the rest of the conference was also very, very good.
Sunday, March 30, 2008
The Fuggerei
On Wednesday morning we left Munich, stopping in the city of Augsburg along the way to see the "Fuggerei". It was fascinating and was my highlight of this trip. I took this information from "Wikipedia" which in this case, proved to be a very accurate source.
"The Fuggerei is a walled enclave within the city of Augsburg, Bavaria. It takes its name from the Fugger family and was founded in 1516 by Jacob Fugger the Younger (known as "Jacob Fugger the Rich") as a place where the needy citizens of Augsburg could be housed. By 1523, 52 houses had been built, and in the coming years the area expanded with various streets, small squares and a church. The gates were locked at night, so the Fuggerei was, in its own right, very similar to a small independent medieval town. It is still inhabited today, affording it the status of being the oldest social housing project in the world.
The rent was and is still one Rheinischer Gulden per year (equivalent to 0.88 Euros), as well as three daily prayers for the current owners of the Fuggerei - the Lord's Prayer, Hail Mary, and the Nicene Creed. The conditions to live there remain the same as they were 480 years ago: one must have lived at least two years in Augsburg, be of the Catholic faith and have become indigent without debt. The five gates are still locked every day at 10 PM.
The Fuggerei was first built between 1514 and 1523. Expanded further in 1880 and 1938, the Fuggerei today comprises 67 houses with 147 apartments, a well, and an administrative building. There is no shared accommodation; each family has its own apartment, which includes a kitchen, a parlour, a bedroom and a tiny spare room, altogether totalling about 60 square metres. Ground-floor apartments all have a small garden and garden shed, while upper-floor apartments have an attic. All apartments have modern conveniences such as television and running water. One ground-floor apartment is uninhabited, serving as a museum open to the public. The Fuggerei now houses senior citizens.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's great-grandfather, the mason Franz Mozart lived in the Fuggerei between 1681 and 1694, commemorated today by a stone plaque.
The Fuggerei was heavily damaged by the World War II bombings of Augsburg but has been rebuilt in its original style. The Fuggerei is still administered by members of the Fugger family."
Inside the museum. Everything is SO small!
The "automatic" front door opener.
"The Fuggerei is a walled enclave within the city of Augsburg, Bavaria. It takes its name from the Fugger family and was founded in 1516 by Jacob Fugger the Younger (known as "Jacob Fugger the Rich") as a place where the needy citizens of Augsburg could be housed. By 1523, 52 houses had been built, and in the coming years the area expanded with various streets, small squares and a church. The gates were locked at night, so the Fuggerei was, in its own right, very similar to a small independent medieval town. It is still inhabited today, affording it the status of being the oldest social housing project in the world.
The rent was and is still one Rheinischer Gulden per year (equivalent to 0.88 Euros), as well as three daily prayers for the current owners of the Fuggerei - the Lord's Prayer, Hail Mary, and the Nicene Creed. The conditions to live there remain the same as they were 480 years ago: one must have lived at least two years in Augsburg, be of the Catholic faith and have become indigent without debt. The five gates are still locked every day at 10 PM.
The Fuggerei was first built between 1514 and 1523. Expanded further in 1880 and 1938, the Fuggerei today comprises 67 houses with 147 apartments, a well, and an administrative building. There is no shared accommodation; each family has its own apartment, which includes a kitchen, a parlour, a bedroom and a tiny spare room, altogether totalling about 60 square metres. Ground-floor apartments all have a small garden and garden shed, while upper-floor apartments have an attic. All apartments have modern conveniences such as television and running water. One ground-floor apartment is uninhabited, serving as a museum open to the public. The Fuggerei now houses senior citizens.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's great-grandfather, the mason Franz Mozart lived in the Fuggerei between 1681 and 1694, commemorated today by a stone plaque.
The Fuggerei was heavily damaged by the World War II bombings of Augsburg but has been rebuilt in its original style. The Fuggerei is still administered by members of the Fugger family."
Inside the museum. Everything is SO small!
The "automatic" front door opener.
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