Royal Ranger Leadership Canoehike

The past two days were very interesting days.
I went with all the leaders from our Royal Ranger scouts on a Canoehike.
We started at our church GadW in Tegel. There we packed our things in waterproof baggs and then carried the boats to the near place where we watered them.

Paddel Club Wiking

God blessed our trip, because it did not rain, nobody capsized and we arrived safely at the most beautiful place I could ever imagine. A new build house directly at the lake owned by a watercraft paddling club. It was huge and looked like a five star hotel with pool, gym, etc. from the outside. Of course it turned out to be a "normal" house. Still it was quiet comfortable and unusual for a paddling club.
This comfort is the reason for nobody using the accessoires we had brought with us. We were able to cook like we do at home ;D



Well we went on having a good time of worship and then hearing a word from Daniel.
He spoke about leadership and how we could live it out in our teams. More about that here.

Rüdiger & Daniel

Since we did not have any games with us, like card games or board games, we went on playing communication games. They are at first awkward, but then you realize they are a lot of fun. And since we had our primary school teacher Rüdiger with us we had tons of those ^^






The next day we were on our way back home. And since some people wanted to try other boats we changed. So nobody complained about any inequality. We also took another route home. We went through Small Venezia, which is a very nice area of canals and their owners of land right at the water.

The lock and the fun lorry

But still we had to pass the lock which was a lot of fun, because we had too carry our boats with a lorry.

The guys taking out the water of the sunk boat

Then it happend. We had changed boats again. In one boat were three of our guys which seemed to be to much. After 20 min. in this constellation the waves swapped over in the boat! And suddenly three people were swimming in the cold, cold water. Thank God we were close to the shore, so we were able to carry the boat there and dry up again.


After that we have learned, that the boat we build ourselves is not able to carry three heavy people.
We continued our journey and were able to arrive safely back at our home.
It was an awesome trip with some action and good relationship between friends!

Group picture!

What is leadership

Daniel Sanchez talked about leadership and its use in teams at a canoe hike of the Royal Rangers Berlin.


1. Peace

• we as leaders, are in the teams to bring peace. This is our goal.
• a question I can ask myself: Does everything I do in the team produce peace?
• Joh 14,27 - Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you.
• Col 3,15 - Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts,

2. Love

• Joh 15,9 - As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love.
• We shall love our close ones. This is very important for leadership.

3. Serving

• the purpose of leaders is to serve.
• Mark 10,45 - For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve,
• RR Goals: Draw kids to Jesus, keep them there and equip them for the future.

Another point that got important to me is preparation. Leaders should always be preperated to have something in store. Else their leadership can be questioned by the kids, because they have no idea what to do or no idea how to lead.

The Race to Victory

Today I had a really exciting day. First a Race with my rowing club and after that an awesome youth concert in the Märkische Viertel.

Half a year ago a loud shout went through my school. My history teacher was crying out "Come! Everybody come to my rowing course! You will get a good grade." Since I didn't have any other sport outside of school at this time I went along attending this course, hoping for a fun time with an extra grade at the end.
I went to this "course" every Thursday and actually enjoyed it. It is fun moving over the water almost faster then people on a bike. Yes it is an exhausting sport, gives you pimples that hurt days after the training. But it is also a sport with disciplin, great relationships with friends and beautiful nature.
The teacher Mr. Peach and a club member called Grille were our trainers. They made us to real competitive enemies. Today was the fight!
Our two boats competed against each other. Five people are in one boat. One who strears and four that row. In my team was Lisa, Sarah, San, Mattis and me. The other boat had Laura, Tim, Jonas, Pascal and Laurin in it.
It was a close race, but a lot of fun. Actually Sarah lost one of her oar right after the start. When that happend we were loosing. We were only three that rowed. It took Sarah more than half of the 500 m to get her oar back in. We were about one boat length back. But we didn't want to give up. So all four started rowing for their lives. And the incredible happend. We passed the enemies by 1 m and went into the goal first.
That was an exciting fight.
And the coke tasted even better ^^

Now the day was not over. The youth concert was still going. I went there as fast as I could, but had to realize that it was over when I arrived. They finished with a HipHop battle with kids dancing. The winner got an iPod shuffel! And afterwards with a small meeting of all the participants to share about there day and worship God for the good time.

Exchange Year 2009/10

During the time of my tenth grade I became interested in an exchange year. As a result of that I started informing myself about the costs, which organisation would be best and I began praying for clear instructions of God.
At first EF, YFU and some others were introduced to me. I signed up at EF. It is a large organisation that sends students from one country to another all over the world. It looked alright to me, but at one point I realized that my believe in the christian religion was a huge point that couldn't be different to the one of the host family. In that organisation it was not sure to come in such a family. Though the chances in America are high to come in a christian family, I wanted to be 100% sure. So I continued looking for another organisation.
Then somebody told me about Amicus, a daughter organisation of the christian youth organisation YoungLife. It was the perfect program, they were about 1k cheaper and they would ensure me a place at a host family that at least would accept my believe.

At last I went for one awesome exchange year. Now I have a family that is American!! :)
My friends are the best and I still am in contact with lots of them.

Below only a few pictures of the 65 GB pictures I have.

My wonderful host family & Me

The drive Way

Shooting the Bow is difficult, but with some practice possible.

Our great watch dog!

The reasons, why this land is called "Farm".

The German School System

In this article I will try to explain the German school system.
I will explain how the average school life looks like and how mine looked like.

First my story:
I started with Kindergarten when I was 3 years old. There I stayed till I was 7 years old. I got into primary school with that age and not with 6 (what was average), because I was not ready with 6. I think my parents decided well at that point :)
After 6 years of primary school I went to a Comprehensive school, because I thought I wouldn't be good enough for Grammar school. I also went to that school because I liked the system (what I will talk about later). On this middle school I had 4 years time to grow through my puberty.
After that I knew I would continue with school, but I during the last two years of middle school I started to think about an exchange year. So in the 11th grade I went to America to improve my english and to get to know the American culture.
After that exchange year I managed to continue with school and not being forced to retake 11th grade, what I was really happy about. So after two more years I was finally ready with school for the rest of my life. :)
My school life (just shorter):

1. Kindergarten (3-7 years)
2. Primary school (7-13 years)
3. Middle school (13-17 years)
4. High school (17-20 years)

How My school live would have looked like, if I would have been "normal" :D

1. Kindergarten (3-6 years)
2. Primary school (6-12 years)
3. Middle school (12-16 years)
4. High school (16-19 years)

I would have been out of school one year earlier!!!
19 is average, I would say. Though it has changed a lot in the past years.
Now a lot of kids get in school with 5.
And the whole school system has been changed, so I guess I have to make another threat about the new system. It changed a little bit. :)

Beneath is the standard German school system which I was the last age group in. It basically describes possible ways, how a school life could look like.

Advanced vocational training University Technical or Trade school Grade 13 Vocational qualification University qualification exam (Abitur) 13th grade and Abitur prep 12 11 Training and education at companies and part time vocational schools (Berufschule) Full-time vocational school (Berufsfacherschule) Vocational uppper secondary school (Fachober-schule) Continuation with Gymnasium or Gesamtschule 10 9 8 7 6 5 Secondary general school(Hauptschule) Intermediate school(Realschule) Grammer school(Gymnasium) Comprehensive school(Gesamt schule) 4 3 2 1 Primary School (Grundschule) Kindergarten

Graphic copied from library.thinkquest.org, but I have modified it a little bit.

I about myself

So now I want to share a little bit about me.

My name is Pitt Biebach. I am a young adult, born in Berlin.

I live with my family downtown, Berlin.

In my family we have my parents, my younger brother and my younger sister (I love them! :-).

My high school, that I am still attending for one more year is in Berlin Reinickendorf. I have Math & English as my A.P. classes. Which I don't regret yet ;)

Now I want to tell you something about my past life.

Early in my life I was in India with my mom and my dad. I can’t tell you anything about it, because I was only a small child. But I know that I celebrated my second birthday there in India. We stayed there for half a year.

When we came back, my time in play school started. I enjoyed the “Waldorf Kindergarden” a lot.

In the last year of kinder garden I remember going to a graduation trip, where I had to sleep with a girl in one tent -,- . The other tents were full. But as I can say that I still live, I can say nothing bad happened :D

After this time I had to go to my primary school, the “Papageno Grundschule”. There I stayed for 6 enjoyable years. Me and my classmates had a lot of fun together and it was heart breaking at the end of that time.

My middle school was the “Bettina-von-Arnim Oberschule”. I went to that school, because I liked the system. The main difference to other schools in Berlin is, that we had a course system all along. While all other middle schools had a class system, we were free to choose our classes. But its to difficult to explain. (Maybe in another post)

At the end of middle school everybody in Berlin has to pass a test that is the same in all of Berlin. It's called MSA. I remember being a little scared of these exams, because my middle school was not the best and I thought I wouldn't have learned the right things. (More about the school system in Germany is to come)

Additionaly to the exams everybody had to have a presentation. Mine was about the fall of the wall in Berlin. I managed to get the best grade possible with my classmate, a one!

That's it - the time till high school. :)

Welcome to the world of blogging

Hello and welcome to the world of bloggers.

I challenged myself with this blog, so I have new challenge in my life.

The first challenge is to find goals for this blog.

I also need keep it updated.

First I think I am going to post random things. About me, what interest me and things happening around me.

I hope you will enjoy reading this blog.

Please leave any suggestions, tips or instructions of improving this side.

Thanks, and again:   Welcome!

Pitt