Sunday, July 22, 2012

That Awkward Moment When You're in Europe...Part 3!

The beautiful realities of life that took place on the dear streets of Macedonia, Serbia, Bosnia & Montenegro...Don't laugh too hard! and YES...these following moments SO DID happen....

That fun/awkward evangelizing moment of life you are walking the down town streets of Bitola, Macedonia handing out flyers for the Convoy of Hope outreach event, to random European people, and you give a flyer to this beautiful young Macedonian man and you stutter to say your 6 word Macedonian sentence 3 times, but by God's amazing grace his eyes and smile are filled with understanding and compassion...

That fashion moment of life you buy your first pair of aviators, and it makes you look at least 52.651% more European...#I.already.am.Freakin.European!!!!

You can take my sense of European fashion away, strip my leather jacket, scarf, aviators, black lace up boots, worst case scenario, BUT...you can't take my Jesus...............................................................................................and Eastern European swag....#surviving.missions.life......barely..... =P

That funny moment of life a very kind Macedonian lady likes you alot, and attempts to hook you up with her 22 year old son Doma....=P

That moment of life your cultural professor drops you off in a random village within the Macedonian mountains and just drives away...#real.missions.life.

That awkward moment of life you are handing out outreach flyers in this mountainous Macedonian village of Krivolisk, and there is an overwhelming amount of young Macedonian men surrounding you...

That funny moment of life you write your name on a Macedonian boy's had since he kindly asked and then 30 other Macedonian children want your name written on their hand and they run outside and start screaming AISTE! AISTE! AISTE! #it.just.happened.Russian.spy.identity.revealed.in.Macedonia.

That beautiful unreal moment of life you're riding back to the church with your missions team  and the pastor  starts singing "How Great is Our God". #small.worship.music.world.

That coincidental moment the last worship song in the Negatino church service is "Svetlina" (Here I Am To Worship)  and your Makedonian name is Svetlana, which means light, and it happens to be the very first worship song you ever learned and your favorite one! 

That awkward moment of life you and your 2 friends are walking back from the downtown streets of Negatino and you are locked out of the church. You ring the door bell twice and the electronic system unlocks but you can't open the door. You yell to the 3rd floor and ask your professor for the keys and he throws the keys to you to unlock the door, but it still won't open! 15 minutes later, one of your other friends FINALLY opens the door for all of you....#........................................................

That funny moment of life you're about to give your testimony and you introduce yourself, "Jac sum Aiste!" and the entire church congregation is like "Laden-Chi!?!?!?! (ice-tea!?!?!?!Q) KAKO!?!?!? #Even.Macedonians.don't.believe.there.are.crazy.Lithuanians.named.Ice.Tea.in.this.world.

One of my dear friends, "Aiste, you know what I was thinking? You're 100% Lithuanian, so that means you're going to marry a guy who is also Lithuanian? Me: "Um......well.........................................................................................................................
as long as he is either cough cough Macedonian,...............................................Lithuanian, Russian, Estonian, Latvian, or something that ends in an "IAN" than at least my future children will be half and half....just like a latte!" #hum.what.lucky.European.to.choose...=P

"I take NO initiative, I don't even tell them how to spell my name, and they STILL find me!!" ~Svetla #European.men.&.facebook....=P

That crazy moment of life you're at a Macedonian resturant and before you eat your meal, your professor makes your entire missions team stand up and do a little Makedonia Dancing as he prays for the meal...#DANCE.PRAYING....Totally.European.Hipster.

Joko: "Svetla, you kicked that soccer ball SO hard...you almost knocked someone's head off!!!1" Svetla: "Ahmen, that's how I play FUTBOL!!!" #don't.mess.with.the.Lithuanian.

Svetla: "I may come across as a cute, sweet, happy, smiley, musicy, artsy, fartsy, Russian/Lithuanian hipster......BUT I have a dark tornado sky Thousand Foot Krutch European futbol side as well...." #TOUGH.LITHIE.

That moment of life you FINALLY do that one beyond crazy thing you've always wanted to do....#lost.my.passport? =P

That moment of life you're at a Macedonian pizza restuarant and  the two songs is "Paradise" and "That's What Makes You Beautiful" comes on the radio as you leave...#keepin.the.dance.party.alive.in.Makedonija!

That financial crushing moment of life you accidentally lose 1,000 Denari....#DANG.

That moment of life you bet Hannah .5 denari you will meet a Russian in Nis, Serbia and .oooooooooooooooooo1 denari that you will meet a Lithuanian....#Lithuanians.don't.exist.in.south.eastern.Europe.

That terrifying/awkward moment of life you're getting impatient as you're waiting to cross the Serbian border and as you are plotting  on how to "hop the fence", a Serbian security guard bangs your window, stares at you for 3 seconds, then walks away...#Svetla.Is.A.Russian.Spy.SHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

That coincidental moment of life you find yourself waiting to cross the Serbian border and you are discussing ideas of how you wish to be proposed to: "On a bridge somewhere in Europe overlooking a city.....and "he" sings and plays one of my favorite songs on the guitar....#don't.get.any.ideas....I.never.said.anything...=P

That moment of life your professor says, "I have a confession to make, I've never been to Nis, Serbia....all I have is a map of the city, other than that....I have NO IDEA where we are going...we could be back here in an hour, or late at night...#Serbian.Adventure.

That moment of life you "accidentally" crash a Serbian wedding....#Like.A.Boss.....YEAH

(this one is truly GOLDEN, Never will I forget!) That language moment of life a young Serbian man walks up to you after the church service, he says his name, you say yours, he doesn't speak English....you don't speak Serbian....so you just stare and smile at each other! #I've.decided.I'm.going.to.master.the.Macedonian.language.once.and.for.All! (Serbians understand Macedonia, pretty much all of former Yugoslavia does)

(This SO happened, I honestly don't know how =P) That awkward moment of life you exchange facebook names with this young Serbian man, and the pastor STORMS over and snatches the piece of paper that has your name away from him, he says "Izvini (excuse me) and then the pastor writes down the young Serbian man's name on another piece of paper and gives it to you.....#what.the.heck...no.comment.as.awkward.as.life.gets.in.Jesus.name.

FINALLY,  thee last awkward European moment................................(in the part 3 series anyways...=P)

That sneaky Russian spy moment of life you smuggle your facebook name into a young Serbian man's hands....#Being.in.europe.makes.me.do.crazy.thingZ.




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