Bittersweet.

Well, the time has come to leave this wonderful chapter of my life. I'm going home tomorrow, after living in France for three months. I am so thankful that God planned this for my life :) It has been a wonderful, stressful, peaceful, chaotic, and rewarding three months. It is truly amazing what God can do when you leave your life open to His will. Here are just a few of the many things I will miss:


* Apremont, my beautiful, little village.
* Reading Thomas his bedtime story every night.
* Playing piano with Sophie.
* Reading books, and being silly with Emma.
* My talks with Claire.
* When Audrey calls me "Aummer"
* Audrey's laugh when she is being tickled, or the way she kicks her feet when she's excited.
* Our long walks through the forests.
* Going to church and not understanding anything, but in constant awe of Christ's presence!
* Family dinners
* Family worship every Sunday night
* Audrey's silver eyes.
* Movie& pizza nights.

* Spending my day off drawing, and writing at the park.




I can't wait to see you all!!

With love from Paris,

Summer Brooke.

Last week in France.

I am home after a wonderful and relaxing week in Prague. It is such a beautiful city! Ask me about it sometime, I'm sure I will go on for hours :) Sadly, this is my last week in France. It is going to be so hard saying goodbye to the Cross kids. I really love this family, and will miss them all terribly when I leave. There is a group of 5 from Texas here this week to help out with English classes. I was able to attend tonight, and learned a lot about teaching English as a second language. Really interesting. After living in France for three months, I have learned two things: first, the French language is incredibly difficult, but so beautiful, and second, try as I may I cannot speak French. I have picked up a little, but the pronunciation is hard to say the least. Hopefully, I will be able to take some classes in college :)

I'm so excited to see you all in 6 days. :)

Love,

Summer

Prague (part 2)

Prague is wonderful. I'm am having such a great week! Today was my first church service in English in over two months; I loved it. This afternoon we walked around Old Town, while Mr. Nichols showed and explained to me all the beautiful sights of Prague. There is so much history here. We ate our dinner on a boat overlooking the river at sunset. After, we climbed up the (smaller) Eiffel Tower. It was an amazing sight overlooking the city lights at night. Can't wait for what God has in store this week :)
Love,
Summer