“Roses. Pizza. Rain.”
This morning found us departing Nowey Dwor for Warsaw with a good half-day of driving head of us. For the first several hours there was admirable quiet, and a good bit of snoozing and drooling on the bus. 🙂
Lunch was a picnic in a parking lot, and I believe we brought some joy to several truck drivers and a fruit vendor as we munched and scampered about for 45 minutes.
Our evening program was at a Baptist church in the area that was once part of the Warsaw Ghetto. We prefaced our program by singing a few songs on the steps outside, to draw in passersby.
At the end of our concert, a gentleman handed out bouquets of roses to EACH ONE of us! We felt rather awkward and fancy standing in a big “U” at the front of the church, receiving our flowers and listening to the pastor thanking us.
If the roses made us feel fancy, the pizza the church provided for our supper afterward quickly changed all that; we put our roses aside and turned into a stampeding herd of American buffalo. It was a little embarrassing how quickly that large table of pizza disappeared, not to mention the cakes and candy!
Well, we needed every bit of energy we could gather to make our trek in the rain to the bus after supper. And our drive to the Baptist seminary on the outskirts of Warsaw (where we’ll be recording for the next 2 days) found on a rutted dirt road in the woods after some wrong turns. The bus was like a snake trying to crawl into an apple, pretending to be a worm. Somehow we made it to our destination safely, and as the rain intensified the guys jogged back and forth with all our worldly possessions (for which we were so grateful). We were also grateful to crash into our quarters for the night, and were lulled to sleep by the most lovely thunderstorm.
-Roy, Arlene, & Charity Gingrich