Over a week since the last posts
and lots of things to share! Time on a boat has a funny way of passing; days
seem long and full of activity, but the weeks fly by and I’m left feeling like
I left home yesterday. I won’t go into a
detailed list of all the stuff I’ve had the privileged of participating in the
past couple weeks but I will share some highlights. I left last you guys with Mt. Athos looming
in the horizon. Well, we’re well past it now and have sailed quite a bit around
the middle and eastern peninsulas on the northern Aegean. I don’t ever really know the names of the
places we are, because Greek is a horrible language to try to understand and
pronounce, but I do know where we are on the navigation map (most of the time),
which counts for something. So no, I
don’t know the name of the town we are currently docked in, or the name of the
peninsula we have been sailing around for the past week.
We picked
up our first speaker (and also my roommate) nine days ago. Hondo Wynn, an American
from California who currently lives in Slovenia with his family, was an
incredible guy to have aboard. His
lectures were thought provoking, insightful, challenging, and incredibly fun
and engaging. Hearing about his work
with a missions organization called Josiah Venture (check it out yo!) in
eastern Europe was super encouraging. Spending
time going on daily adventures with him reminded me why Americans are awesome
to hang out with, and having one on one conversations about theology, the
bible, missions philosophies and what the heck we are supposed to do with this
life we have been given was pretty neat.
To save time here is a list of
adventures I went on this past week that will make my mom nervous and my
friends jealous.
1) Caught mussels and crabs by hand
for bait, rigged up fishing line and hooks, snorkeled and handfished for hours until I caught a fish.
2) Swam to some islands and hiked
around and through a bunch of fancy estates in my swim trunks. Avoided all guard dogs.
3) Found an old log on an abandoned
beach. Fashioned canoe and traversed the
seas on log canoe.
4) Tried windsurfing without enough
wind. Unsuccessfully windsurfed for
several hours.
5) Found rock wall on island,
rigged up climbing harness and belay system with Hondo. Climbed rock wall.
6) Ate 3 gyros in one day. (Highly delicious, minimally dangerous)
7) Spent the whole day alone on
board while all the students and Theo travelled to ancient Phillipi. Didn’t destroy the boat.
8) Swam from the boat to a beach
resort and hung out with the nude Europeans.
Those are just a few of the adventures from the past week or
so, with many more to come. Tomorrow, we
leave and sail back around some peninsula to drop off Hondo and pick up our
next speaker. Pray for some good wind!
Until next time
-BG
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