Kon Nagy's take on Wednesday- Field Trip Day

This morning at 5:49 our whole team was woken up by the sound of a metal dumpster being slammed into the pavement repeatedly. Poland, you truly never fail to disappoint. Today was our field trip day, basically where we go take a day off from camp and do something fun to try to talk and connect more with the campers and hopefully strike up conversations about God. Our field trip today was hiking a mountain. 

I never found out the name of the mountain but even if I knew it I'm sure that I couldn't spell it correctly. The trip started by walking to the Skoczów train station where we met up with the Polish campers. “I got to ten thousand steps!”-to quote Tori while she gazed at her Fitbit and tripped off the train station steps. After Domi concluded that she rolled her ankle we went on with buisness. We eventually boarded our train and after a 45 minute long train ride we made it to Wisła. Upon arrival we went through the “cute little town” and made it to the base of the mountain. It was a steep sight, and because of the rain the previous night it was very wet and mucky. But we went along and started our journey. The first part was very steep and hard to walk up especially with Tori having her hurt ankle and Abby with her bad knees. So we made it to the first “checkpoint” and Abby made the decision to have her, Tori, and Domi to head back down the road to get a ride to the town. They were all very disappointed because they all wanted to do the hike and make it to the top of this mountain. So after they left we kept moving and the weather got nicer the farther up we went. It was an amazing sight getting higher and higher up and seeing more of the town and farm land below us. We eventually made it to the top of the mountain and ate some lunch, to quote myself, “that wasn't so bad” After finishing lunch we took off back down the other side of the mountain. It was beautiful walking through the forest and seeing God's great creation, some parts really reminded me of northern Minnesota. This part of our journey felt a lot longer and more physically demanding due to all of the mud and runoff on our path. After many good conversations and great music we made it off of the trail and to the main road. I saw a building and made the assumption that we were at our destination but was mistaken. We took a wrong turn somewhere and had to walk on the side of the road to make it there. So we trekked on again, this part of the trip was interesting because Domi was driving her car and picking up 4 people at a time and driving them closer to our stop. After lots of talking, telling jokes, and doing voice impressions, myself and 3 others hopped in Domi's car and made it to our place. 

I didn't really know what to expect when we got there, a ropes course? I just hiked 12 miles, all I want to do is sit down and drink some water, not climb up a ladder to my certain doom. But actually it was really awesome. We met up with Abby, Tori, and Domi and got started. We bought lots of sweet candy and ice cream while our team went up and down the course. It was very cool to see our team of Polish and American people doing awesome on this very intense course, even people that really didn't want to do it, or had killer head aches did the course and got some awesome pictures. After spending some time there we all packed into a bus and made it back to the school. With some sweaty hugs and tired legs we went back to the church and had dinner then our team debrief. At the team debrief we had lots of discussion in how we saw God and talked about the conversations the Polish youth group kids had with the students. In the end our team walked a combined total of about 200,000 steps and 100 miles (according to Fitbit) All is going very well and I am personally having a great time, lots of internal struggles but it's a good learning experience for myself. 

Love and miss you all!

~Kon 

PS. Tori and her ankle are better :)