And Go

Bob Loblaw. Here’s your blog.

We’ve never blogged before, so no promises that it will be anything worthwhile or consistent.  There were enough requests, though, that we started saying we would, and we’re not keen on liars.

Some will be joint, although our Berlin blog reminded us that we are very different writers. Thus, we’d expect to see more entries from just one or the other, and we’ll try to alternate fairly.  If you get lost in deciphering who wrote what, just look for grammatical errors and we think you’ll figure out the author.  

Our goal is to share our experiences and keep you posted on our lives, but mostly to make sure you don’t forget about us.  We don’t want you to move on to bigger and better friends.

So, the story goes like this: we moved to Germany. We’ll be here until July 1^st. No, Dan does not know German, though he’s making progress in Bryce’s textbook.  (She may want to reference it, too, as she hasn’t used her German since graduating.) 

Until April, we’ll be working at Wittekindshof.  For those of you familiar with Bryce’s LVC placement, it is essentially a gigantic L’Arche community, though not affiliated.  It is a community for people with developmental disabilities, complete with many homes, a school, a church and deacon school, and many workshops for a wide range of interests and abilities.  There are 2500 employees here, so when we say a “gigantic L’Arche” we mean gigantic.  We each have a half-time position; our schedules and responsibilities are yet to be determined, but we are each assigned to a separate set of homes.

Wittekindshof is located in Volmerdingsen.  We live in Bergkirchen.  Both are small towns near the larger small town of Bad Oeynhausen.  Bad Oeynhausen is a small town near the small city of Minden.  The closest large cities you’ve heard of are Hannover (about an hour to the east) and Cologne (about an hour south).

After April, who knows?  That’s that for now.  We’ll do our best to keep you updated. Please keep us updated, too!

Love,

Bryce and Dan