Nerashte

Last couple of months were really interesting. Much changed again in my life. I found an amazing girl that I can share my life with, that I can love and take care of. I started to be somehow happy in Prague, even I still miss many people here, but I am seeing is at a place where I live now and many others.

But the thing I want to share with you is the trip to Macedonia we did with YL last week. It was somehow a normal mission trip to a Albanian part of Macedonia, fully muslim, into the village called Nerashte close to Tetovo almost on the border with Kosovo.

It was fourteen of us, traveling 26 or so hours in three trains to the place, then for 5 days build a playground, paint one big wall and a big fence. And then go another 30 or so hours back. But it wasnt just that. It wasnt just building and making one elementary school nicer and better equipped.

It was a life changing experience for many kids there. Kids that are hated in the country that hates muslims, that hates Albanians because of the war they had few years ago. It was a absolutely new for them, that someone actually cared, someone spend the time with them, played soccer and football and let them be part of something bigger then just them. I could see it in almost every face, the happiness, joy and hope. Hope that world is not such a bad place, and that it doesnt need to be just mafia wars, or wars with Macedonians and poverty and no future. And to be honest? It changed my life too.

My eyes got opened about some stuff. Maybe what would I want to do in the future, that some of the problems I am dealing with arent really that important and that my life is not as bad as I sometimes think and that world is a better place then I thought.

Also we grew soooo close with the team, group of people who maybe saw each other couple times started to share their lifes with one another and share snacks, drinks, money, clothes, jokes and everything. It was a wonderful reminder how can a kingdom of God looks. People loving each other and helping each other and just live in some kind of unity and community.

I am really thankful I could have experienced that, it was like charging my batteries for the future days. I showed me again why I believe what I do and why I do what I do. Why I am a YL volunteer, why I want to get to know young people and maybe give them a new possibilities.

Its a wonderful world out there, out here, around us. And I love that I was a part of something so great.