When you get caught between the moon and New York City

Hey world *wave*. Its Monday again and things are looking up-ish here in Eppeltown. I spent the majority of last week doing not much, which has been very therapeutic. So, I feel kind of ready to jump on the bandwagon again - of course I'm reluctant to actually DO things again after several days of relaxing apathy, but then who wouldn't be?

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Cooked lunch for a small team of Texan missionaries on a short-term missions trip to Germany this morning. We served up "Maultaschen", something the Americans had never seen or eaten before (despite two of them having lived here for quite some time). It was fun - the picture above gives an idea of what Maultaschen are, while this link gives you a more detailed description and recipes how to make 'em. Ours, BTW, came out of a packet (courtesy of living in Southern Germany, where they mass-produce the things) and were not lovingly hand-crafted as the website suggests. It was fun to meet and talk to the team (they're with a program called "Let's Start Talking"), especially as one of the two couples are true globetrotters who have spent significant portions of their lives living and working outside of their home country. The following perception is definitely not limited to inhabitants of the US of A; I tend to find that whatever the nationality, people who've spent more than just their holidays living "away from home" tend to have a much broader horizon as well as a tendency to be less fanatical and one-sided about matters. Which, in my book, is a good thing. So, despite a mild aversion to use American -isms too much on this blog, we really did have a great time together. And that will have to be all for today. Cheerio!