Praise and Prayer

It is a proud Hald tradition to arrange Praise and Prayer nights every Monday evening. The content varies from time to time, but the main idea is to create an atmosphere where the students can meet with God, and worship Him together.

Last Monday was our first P&P for the year. Mesh, who is in charge of arranging them this year came up with a brilliant idea. In stead of doing a traditional Norwegian worship meeting she wanted us to find our own Hald style, to fit into the Hald culture.

So we were placed on different tables, with as many nationalities represented on each table as possible. Then we talked: How do I worship God at home? What is church like? How and where am I used to meeting God? At the end of it we all prayed together, thanking God for the blessing it is to be united from all over the world, coming together in order to worship Him.

Through the fog there is hope in the distance

From cathedrals to third world missions

Love will fall to the earth like a crashing wave

Tonight's the night

For the sinners and the saints

Two worlds collide

In a beautiful display

It's all love tonight

As we step across the line

We can sail across the sea

To a city with one King

A city on our knees.

(Toby Mac - City on our knees)

Back to the bubble

After a long summer of working at the Kiwi Supermarket, hosting wonderful Kenyans, spending time with great friends and having a whole apartment usually more or less to myself, I am back at Hald! All though summer has been pretty all right, I am very excited to be back in my favourite international bubble. It's been a few days and I am definitely settling in an feeling just as comfortable as I did last year.

I have met lots of last years' students, who drop by whenever they're in the area. I like that, so any former Hald student who is reading this: please plan to be in the area sometime during this fall, yeah? Good stuff! Also it's great to be back together with the teachers and of course the lovely ladies; Mesh and Elisabeth!

(Elisabeth in the middle)

              (Mesh)                  

There are also two very new assets to our brilliant team of ettårings. They're fun, they're continental and they're definitely Hald material: they are Zsofia from Hungary and Maybrit from Germany!

 

(Zsofia)

      (Maybrit)         

Us five chicks have really hitted off, and it has been great to spend a few days together with them, all of us getting to know each other and working out the team dynamics before the students arrive.

But more than anything I am thankful to be regaining the "Hald mentality". After a summer consisting mostly of working, going to the cinema, drinking coffee and watching TV, I have noticed how I adjust to Norwegian conditions very quickly, and I don't like it. And so I could not be happier to be back to morning devotions, political debates going on untill midnight and a million cultural codes.

All together, life is good and God is great!

Welcome!

After a life-upside-down-turning year at Hald Internasjonale Senter with six months of internship i Kenya, I have now been back in "the real world" for about two months. Having finally recovered from a pretty rough reversed culture shock, I am ready to admit that certainly there are things worth blogging about here too.

That's why I would like to welcome you (all...? both...?) to my new blog. Now, I know the title is a bit misleading; I have never been to Rome and most certainly not to Calcutta, though I hope to get there some day. However, anyone of you who has watched the Aristocats will know what I'm talking about. :-)

These first few lines came out a bit pretentious, didn't they..? Or do I just feel that way because my mind is reading the whole thing back to me in a British accent?

Anyway, that's beside the point.

So enjoy my new attempt at making a frequently updated, worthwhile blog. Last time I didn't do so bad, let's hope this one will be even better.