What a weekend we had! Friday our housemates invited us to hang out with them at a local joint, so we went with them and spent 3 hours just hanging out and talking. They speak very good English, so communication wasn’t a problem. It was a lot of fun to get to know them a little better. Saturday we ventured to Ikea. It wasn’t all that exciting since all the furniture we have seen over here looks like Ikea, but the prices are a bit better than some of the stuff we have in town. We didn’t get anything, though. It’s hard to decide what we really need with an empty house. Sunday we ventured to a Swiss church that we had heard about through a contact at our church back in Atlanta. It’s an evangelical-free church in Düdingen which is about 10 mintues away on the German side. Everyone was very welcoming and spoke to us in English (which is good because our French is very limited and our German non-existant!) and even had someone translate the service for us. We were also privileged to enjoy the special music they had that week featuring the Alpenhorn! (Like from the Ricola commercials) I really felt as though I were in Switzerland then. After church we were invited to an English speaking Bible study in downtown Fribourg as well as to a family’s house for lunch. There were 5 of us (Tom and myself as well as one of Tom’s coworkers and his family) and we went to a Swiss family’s house for lunch! We were introduced to the Swiss Sunday culture as lunch took four hours. However, hardly anything is open on Sunday and you aren’t supposed to do any work (laundry, yard work, house cleaning, etc) so we were all free to take as much time as we liked. It was exciting to meet some Christians that are close to us and so willing to take care of us. The body of Christ is an amazing and wonderful thing! Since we would really like to attend a French speaking church, since that is our language of choice, they gave us some information on French speaking churches in the area. We plan to check them out, but if they don’t work out, I believe we have found a place we could call home. Even if it means learning some Swiss German!
After our eventful morning, we decided that there we still time in the day for the 5 of us to take a drive up into the mountains. So we took the little 5 seater pugeot through the Jung pass and saw some beautiful sights. One thing about Switzerland is that just about everywhere you go is simply breathtaking. We stopped at a creek to let two and a half year old Kacey get out and play. She really enjoyed it even though the water was pretty cold. After that we stopped in Thun for dinner and had some very good traditional Swiss food. We were beat when we got home but it was worth it. We want to take advantage of the time we have here!
The Burgess Family - Dave, Lu and little Kacey by the stream.
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