I am enjoying Goertzenville very much. I have now (including my time at Roseau River Bible Camp) lived out of a bag for 2 1/2 months, with 1 1/2 to go, and I couldn't be happier. We are very well fed here, with breakfast at the house, morning coffee break, lunch, and afternoon coffee break at the build site (which, might I add, is also a house), and a hot supper back at the old house again. My beloved cousin Isabelle wrote a piece for school about our afternoon coffee breaks. It is a very accurate description. (Although she neglected to mention the copper jewelry that gets made frequently.)
Coffee Break in Goertzenville Isabelle Raine October 16, 2017 It is roughly 3:34 p.m., the day has been long, the crew's enthusiasm for work is waning and the general feeling is that Coffee Break ought to be arriving soon when—oh, joy!—a heart-warming aroma drifts past, borne on the arms of the children and womenfolk who have come to grant their valiant construction workers respite in the daily grind. Commonly bequeathed with varieties of fruit, loaves, nuts and hot drinks, it is little wonder that Coffee Break is such a highlight in these workers' lives. A shout arises; children rejoice! “Coh-feeee Break!” cries the multitudes. The signal being given, the crew shows itself to be consisting of almost entirely children as they leap from their ladders, swing down from the rafters, pop up from trenches and crawl through the wall frames. Unfastening their weighty toolbelts, they plunk themselves bodily into the nearest available picnic chair under the pretense of exhaustion and sigh. When they feel that they have charaded sufficiently, they turn to their neighbour and begin an animated and amusing dialogue. Opposite each cluster of conversationalists crowds another, and the air is thick with shared stories, teasing, and, as often as not, a heated debate or two. After a while another signal is given, reluctantly, and the crew rises from their chairs, ready to resume their individual tasks, in the rejuvenated and laughing state that Coffee Break tends to inflict on its victims.
Come visit us sometime - my Oma makes to-die-for loaves, and we always say if you work you eat!
