An Excuse

Desperate times call for desperate measures, right? Well with our internet not fully working appropriately until last night (thank you, pastor!!!) and with my trip to Rome right around the corner, I'm going to have pull a major cop out. I will not be writing more about the trip to Greece. I know you're all just devastated. lol But I don't have the time to finish writing about that, writing about the updates here, and finishing the photo albums from Athens. Since my photo albums have relatively detailed captions (at least by facebook standards), that will just have to suffice.

So without futher adeiu, I give you the rest of Athens Day 1. Read the album description before you view the pictures. It tells you briefly where were were and what we did. Do this for each album and you will understand much more clearly why I can't take the time to continue writing about it.

Now, check out part 1 of the fun in Athens on Day two. Follow that with part 2 and then finally ending Day 2 with part 3.

I haven't finished making albums from Day 3 quite yet, but I did start on it. Here's the first one from day 3 in Athens. I'll make sure to get the rest done before we take off for Rome.

Really, I'm truly sorry for cutting it short. It's my fault for not putting more effort into dealing with our bad internet. Sorry. I had many other things on my mind though. First of all, we are on a two week break from classes. We didn't exactly know if there is a spring break here, how it works, or when it would be. Plus, not all of our students go to the same school, so they might not have it at the same time. Our solution was to just break between our second 10 week session and then start our third and final 10 week session. Therefore, we aren't having classes this week and we won't have classes next week. Since I'll be gone next week, I'm busy trying to cram all my planning and prep into one week. Plus, my friend Beth is arrived yesterday morning to visit here for a few days before we fly over to Italy. Plus, we decided to do an Easter Program with the kids for Easter. It's just like a Christmas service, but for Easter. So now we are spending extra time on Saturdays practicing for that.

It's all going well so far, but I'm starting to get a little run down. How does that happen during a break? I'm not quite sure, but I do know that I need to find some energy. I just feel worn out. Travel always gets me excited though, so I know I'll find the energy or just push though and I'll have a blast in Rome.

Oh! Before I go, I should leave you with two quick stories. The first is very funny. Many of my students live in the same neighborhood, and many of those live in the same apartment complex where our church is. These students know each other and their families quite well. So after my last class with my "Atlanta" group, one of the little students came in and was drawing on our marker board. Danja, (you should remember her because I've talked about her a lot and posted plenty of pictures of her) is quite the little teaser. She was playing with my student Eraldi and he was kind of playing jokes on her. Eraldi is about 16. Danja is 8. So she starts drawing on the board and she draws a picture of Eraldi as a girl. Haha! It was complete with a strapless gown and matching necklace and earrings. This girl is a little smarty-pants. Haha! It was too funny!

The other story is just really cute. Yesterday Beth went with me to the church to go get my bike. I'd left it there the other day because it started raining after I arrived. She went with me so she could meet whoever we would run into there. We ended up seeing Emanuela, Brisilda, Luela and Aldo. They came in the church to chat/visit with us. While they were there, Beth started playing piano and then they wanted to sing. So we sang a few hymns that they know and it was just so cute. :) We sang other songs too and spent the majority of the time talking or playing, but it was fun.

So that's where things stand with me. Today there's a 60% chance of rain all day, but we're going to meet Olsa for lunch at the beer house to get some traditional Albanian qofte. Mmm, mmm, good! Qofte are little sausages that are a bit spicy. They're very tasty! But the best part it that it will give us a chance to spend some quality time with Olsa. Hopefully tonight we can meet a few other people for bowling and then a trip up to Sky Tower. Anything else will just be on a whim. lol That's the plan. So I haven't disappeared, I've just been waiting for the internet to be fixed. Ta-da!