Survey Day One

It was a nice sunny day!  I woke at 5 AM, but turned over and slept till 6:30 AM.  We met at 9 AM to make out way to Robert & Rachel's to prepare for the task ahead.  Since we are trying to hand out flyers about the free English discussion groups, there is a need to find a creative way to attract people to the classes.  A survey questionnaire is a good way to get to know what the people are thinking, it is a personal approach and a way to get us used to interacting with others.  So we came up with about 9 questions and figured we would start from there.  After having a great lunch of pasta and waxed beans...we helped clean up and headed to the bus station.  Side note - I know I am the girl, but I hate being the first one to be served!  Even though I know it is all about manners...we are like family and there is always plenty, so it is not like I need to be first to make sure I get something.  I believe in the Bible it states, "the first shall be last and the last shall be first" - you know where I stand.   OK back to the events of today...we rode the bus, Metro and tram to get to Old Town Warsaw.  Took tons of pictures and will include some later. Keith and I were paired up and then went out to ask our questions.  We found that some of the words we used were too difficult for them to understand or they just did not want to answer the questions.  For example: what is the purpose of life?  or  How do you determine whether to do right or wrong? 
After talking with some people, we gathered together to get feedback on the experience.  We found that we may need to make the questions more basic, that people were genuinely interested in the free English discussion groups and that there are opportunities to have Polish discussion groups based on questions that were asked.  We started asking if people would be interested to be contacted if we had Polish discussion groups based on topics that we asked about and we got a number of e-mails for Robert & Rachel to follow up on in the future!   Even though our intentions were to gather information more specific to English discussion groups where people can improve their speaking, God opened the door to another opportunity!
Then we walked through some of Old Town Warsaw and found out it is about 20 - 30 minutes from the Hostel!  So we will be going there again...soon.  After returning to the Hostel, we had open face sandwiches, chips, pickles, fruit and sweets.  The band joined us and Adam shared a few things from his Bible study.  We helped Robert and Rachel get the left overs back to the car.  Eli keeps asking when I will stay the night at their home, so Beau makes fun of me and asks "Miss Marie when are you going to stay at our house for the night?"  Gotta love the boys!  I am going to enjoy the rest of the evening reading and get a good nights sleep to prepare for walking tomorrow!  :0)

"And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose."                      Romans 8:28