Hopscotch

               Today, I am thankful for kids. How creative and bold they are. On Saturday, my roomie and I, along with our downstairs neighbor family, were invited to a German open house grill out. This is pretty unusual for several reasons. Germans do not usually invite you to their home unless you know them very well. They are very private people. It is also unusual because all of us our American and our neighbors are all German. Hence, a potential language barrier. But my roommate Emily and I decided we shouldn't miss out on this opportunity. We walk up the road, nervously knock on their door. He swings it open wide with a "Come in, come in, welcome!" Not expected! It turns out he studied English in University and works for an American company here in Germany. Very unexpected! We were actually able to communicate with many of the neighbors. Not due to my own smarts but theirs. I was so thankful they spoke English :)

               The best part about the night was watching our neighbor girls play with the German kids. They all played with a parachute, jumped on the trampoline, climbed trees together. They just made interacting look so simple when they don't speak the same language. They played with them for over 3 hours! And my favorite part is this!

They created a 200 square hopscotch from our German neighbor's house to ours! So cute :)

Here is the back gate to our house.

 
     Thank you Jesus for children and hopscotch and cross-cultural relationships!