It has been a whirlwind of activities and events! We arrived in Munich on early Tuesday morning. After spending about five hours at the airport, we headed to Dachau Concentration Camp, which is located just outside of Austria. 
My experience at Dachau was not the typical experience that most people talk about. We only had a little over an hour to spend at Dachau, which is not nearly enough time to go through everything thoroughly, therefore we could not read all the information that was available. Thankfully, I have done so much reading and research on the holocaust that I already knew the majority of then information. The entire experience was still very moving. It was heartbreaking to actually see one of the places I have spent so much time reading about.
Following the concentration camp, we drove to the Lighthouse in Innsbruck, Austria and checked into our hostel. The Lighthouse is the youth center that the local missionaries run. The English camp is partnered with the Lighthouse and its ministry there. Many of the kids and Austrian workers that are at English camp are associated with the Lighthouse. The hostel we stayed at was close to the center of Innsbruck and was very nice. There were three of us to a room and we had our own bathroom. From there we were able to walk to the altstatt (old town in German) in Innsbruck, which is, as the name implies, the old town area that has the classic shops, cafes, and tourist attractions.
The gelato that we got in altstatt was enough to make me want to move to Austria! The next couple of days were spent in training at the Lighthouse, exploring altstatt, and experiencing the local cuisine which includes wiener schnitzel, späezle, knödel, gelato, and almdudler. Thursday we headed up through the alps to Reutte, Austria where we were staying at the Alphoff, which is a large Austrian house that is rented out every year for the English camps. It is a beautiful old house with lots of rooms and a traditional Austrian Frau that takes care of the house.
After becoming familiar with the house and going out to eat at another traditional Austrian restaurant, we spent time bonding as a team, doing some training, and playing some games. Today we spent the majority of the morning training and getting our English lessons ready. But this afternoon we went on a real adventure! We hiked to these ancient castle ruins that date back to the 1200s. After climbing and exploring the ruins we were able to cross the Highline 179, which is the longest footbridge in the world! It currently holds the Guinness World Record. The sights from our hike, the castle ruins, and from the bridge were indescribable. 
As our team gets ready for campers to come tomorrow be in prayer for my team that we would be confident and effective communicators, that the hearts of the Austrians would be open to hearing the gospel, and that everything would go smoothly with the start of camp!
Since it is after midnight here I better say guten nacht!
Until Next Time,
Miss Sass A Frass
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