Please join us as we are in prayer for our dorm mom Sharon,

Today as students were out playing ultimate frisbee, we received news that our dorm mom was in some sort of a biking accident. Although the actual cause of the accident has not been established yet the information that we do have is that she flew over the top of her handle bars and landed on her face. She is currently in surgery to fix damage to her face, apparently there is extensive bruising on her forehead and a good amount of skin damage across her face. In addition she has broken both of her wrists and so she will be “off” for a good amount of time. As of now Rick is with her and we do not know when she will be back.

Thank You,

So as the weeks have gone by both the senior and junior classes have had a chance to go on their class trips. These few pictures are only a brief glimpse into the amazing time that the juniors had during their weekend trip to Normandy. Enjoy:

Sonne Juniors always seem to find time for a little Sonne Pride

Ben’s Guns?

School is back in session. As the weeks have gone by since the start of a new school year there has been the typical ups and downs of our dorm life. Aunt Sharon traveled to the states two weeks ago to attend a wedding and she greatly enjoyed it. While she was getting ready to return to the dorm we recieved some bad news, Uncle Rick’s father had continued to get worse in his poor health and eventually passed away. Uncle Rick went back to be with his family and to attend the funeral before Aunt Sharon was able to even get back to the dorm. Please keep the Favazzas in your prayers as Aunt Sharon and Rick are apart during this hard time in their life.

On a brighter note, FALL PARTY was last night, the theme being A Black and White Affair. All of the high school students attended while our middle schoolers went on their overnight trip. Our juniors preformed a Jabawakeez dance routine which took the audience away, while Lukas and Kurt walked away with the Funniest Costume award dressed as mormon missionaries. A few others included a barcode group between blauen and sonne and couple of gangstas.

As promised pictures are coming as soon as we can.

So a new school year has come, and Sonne is back in session. This year Sonne has been filled not only with new students we have recieved 3 new RA’s and new dorm parents. The dorm parents, Rick and Sharron have become a quick hit at the dorm and the guys have been blessed to have them this year, with them they bring much experience as they have been dorm parents for 11 years throughout Asian boarding schools. Matt Kirkley has also been joined by some great RA’s (CB, Tommy, and Andy who arrives tonight). One more thing that we have new this year is MIDDLE SCHOOLERS, we have been blessed with the presence of the former liel dorm students. They are a joy to have around as we constantly find them looking up in awe at guys like Johann who are almost 3 feet taller than them.

Pictures will be coming soon, and we are off to a new year.

We don’t have many of these, but they are pretty neat to hear about. If any alumni of Sonne have anything interesting going on in their lives that they want to share, hey, it can be posted here.

Air Force Academy, Colorado

Jarrid Leute, Sonne ’04, is a Westpoint cadet serving on a exchange program at the Air Force Academy. On 15 August, he, along with several other exchange cadets, took their USMA commitment oath, swearing to finish off their remaining two years at the United States Military Academy and then go on to serve a minimum of five years active duty. The oath was admistered by Lt. Gen. Webster, who also gave a speech on “Duty, Honor, Country,” the Army motto. It was quite a good speech, and a great ceremony to see.

Taking the oath

Jarrid and his fellow exchange cadets and Lt. Gen. Webster

Cadet Sergeant Jarrid Leute, Sonne ’04, and Cadet Ben Brown, Sonne ’08.

Yep. School begins soon. Sonne will once again be filled with the yells and joyous screams of new and returning guys. It’s gonna be great.

The weather here at Sonne has been wonderful this summer.  There’s been lots of sun, some rain, some heat, and long balmy days.  Of course, things just aren’t the same when you guys aren’t here! 

The kids attending English camp have had a great time.  Everyone likes to come to Sonne for camp.  Soon, they will all be gone, and the dorm staff will be moving in and getting everything ready for your arrival. 

Your new dorm Mom, Sharon, is here; you are going to love her.  She is friendly and energetic.  Be praying for her and her husband, Rick.  He is still back in the States with his ailing father, but will arrive before you get here.  Do all you can to help them and the new RA’s.

Enjoy the rest of your summer!

Ah, so BFA returns with wins. So good.
Guys soccer got 1st and girls got 3rd. Bruce and Sang Jin were among several to make the all tourney team. Both of them also had a couple goals during the championship games. Girls had several ties and at least two games that went into double overtime sudden death types. They came back quite late last night, tired but happy from their wins.

Track also came back yesterday. The guys got 2nd in Division II, and counting points without divisions, got 3rd out of 24 teams. Girls got 10th out of 23 teams. It has been quite the turnaround year for track. Trevor ran a 2:02 in the 800 meter. He was on fire, and for that, he won gold. It was an amazing race to watch. Everybody was way happy with the turnout of finals this year, and have their fingers crossed for next year.

These last two weeks are going to go by fast. Ah well, everybody will enjoy it.

Soccer left for Championships yesterday. So far, the guys have won both of their games, against Aviano and Bitburg. Girls beat Aviano and tied SHAPE. Tomorrow, we hope, they will win both their games and then go one to the final round on Saturday. Track leaves for Finals tomorrow. 36 athletes are going, 24 qualified and 12 alternates. Trevor and Sean have qualified, while Ben is going as an alternate. The dorm will feel rather empty this Friday without many of the guys.Track is also hoping to win, as they have quite the good chance of the guys winning. Also, 10 school records are within reach of being broken. So they are psyched.

Last night, all the guys in Sonne and all the girls in Blauen got up at 2 AM. They grabbed their stuff and did their best to sneak out of their respective dorms and into each other’s dorms. It was modestly succesful. And people enjoyed it. Plus, Blauen had heard a whiff of the plan earlier in the week and had prepared food for the day, whenever it came. So the guys really enjoyed getting hot and tasty biscuits. Though one of the Blauen RAs did slam a pan on the ground at 6:30 AM, supposedly an accident, but it woke everybody up.

These last two weeks are so stinking busy. Parties, practices, small groups, everything is wrapping up and making it hectic. And kinda sad, seeing who’s leaving. Anyways, another post will come with final results when they come.

Good Luck!

Last thursday was a day off. So, of course, everybody got up earlier then normal. They loaded up the vans and drove to Europa park. They got there in a decent amount of time, not being the last dorm to arrive, but definitly not the first. All the guys got their tickets and the group became individuals seeking after a fun day of rides and food and comradeship. And, all reports being accounted for, it was pretty good. Everybody rode tons of rides and ate tons of food and hung out with their friends and were thus granted a blast. Exiting the park was quite interesting, as there were many street performers to watch and get pictures with. That, and the fact that Josh M. fell into the fountain.

Saturday was the Big Home Event, with Soccer playing Wiesbaden and Track going up against several teams. Soccer won all their games, and boys track came in first, while females came in third. Trevor once again qualified in an event, the open 400, making the total of track athletes going to finals this year 15. Which is a lot more then has happened in the past few years. Brian was creeked on Sunday, and Austin was creeked on Tuesday. Lukas was baptized on Sunday. Another big soccer home game is coming up, pretty much the biggest one of the year against the undefeated and unscored-on Hiedleberg. And JSB is this Sunday. May is such a busy month, oh my.

Hey Y’all
It is a beautiful day. And we hope it stays that way. This past week was wet, but now the sun is out and shining hard. Yesterday Track was away up at Frankfurt while Soccer was here, playing at the Marzell field against Wurzburg. Track did well, with several qualifying for Championships and overall coming in third out of seven teams. Soccer swept Wurzburg with a score of something like 13-1 for the guys, 4-2 for the girls. It was a good set of games, and then there was an excellent and slightly spontaneous concert down at school. This morning there were baptisms at church, and all the guys came back and enjoyed the sunshine. As a sort of dorm togetherness time, there were hamburgers and brats out on the front lawn, with a tight rope and hammock and various sports being played. Sang Jin got all tied up the hammock and dipped in the creek, and that led to a bunch of guys getting in and damming the creek. The creeking spot having already been built up earlier this year, they went upriver, pretty much right beneath the bridge that leads off the property, and dug and stacked and made the creek rise at least two and a half feet. And got sunburned in the process. But everybody had tons of fun,and some are actually still out there. It is hard to believe that school ends in only a few weeks. Big home meet is next Saturday, and we’re probably having dorm retreat on Thursday. Update you as all goes on.

Oh, and Megan is back and well from her knee surgery, which is good.