I'm back

My back yard welcomed me in all of it's fresh green glory. 

 I have arrived safely and I'm working on getting back on this schedule and over the always terrible jet lag. 

Spring is on it's way.

Well, spring is trying to begin here! and I'm getting quite the spring fever, I'm also getting ready to come to the States for the month of April, so once spring gets here I will be gone, and spring is one of the most beautiful seasons here because in every village they have fruit trees and they all bloom and it is quite the beautiful site to see. So I'm going to miss that… and as always here are some pictures of what I have been up to.

First graders eating lunch.

 Costi and Ion 

Iont

 Alexandra 

 Roxana 

 Wednesday Kids Program. 

 Duck Duck Goose. 

Sezer.

Mirela and I 

Rebecca, Dana, Me and Alex

Dana, Me, Mirela and Rebecca 

This was one of the first "Springgy" day and we made the most of it. 

I made some tortillas from scratch and they were great! 

The youth in Chiselet singing a song in church.

The kids in Chiselet singing a song in church.

Ionela and I, on another lovely spring day.  

Julia and I, Julia is a girl that came to work with Outstretched hands for 6 months. 

God bless.

Hair, Canadians, Norwegians, Lost in in translation? :)

Well, this week has been one that has tested my language skills and my knowledge of hair... haha Ten days ago a hair dresser came here to Romania and I was her main translation so where she went I also went and translated for her telling her how the people wanted their hair cut, talk about intimidating!! I felt so inadequate but every person was happy with how their hair looked! 

Their was one day that I had gone with Janelle, the hair dresser, Leanne, her sister, Reinhard, a Canadian that lives here in Romania, and two Norwegians... and I was the only translation for all of them that day! and that day I also had gotten sick so once we came home and went to bed I woke up the next day to hear that I was translating in my sleep saying things like "I can't anymore" "Where?" "Two" in Romanian and then in English "I'm sorry guys I didn't get all of that."  or "I don't know what that means." So it was quite the day and night for me.. Please keep me in your prayers that I would keep learning Romanian because I have a lot to go and the grammar is very hard! 

If there is one thing that I learned from these last 10 days is that God will use your weaknesses for his glory. 

Soooo Cold!

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/02/05/travel/europe-cold-snap/index.html?hpt=ieu_c2

As you may have seen or heard on the news Europe is experieancing a rather harsh winter as of the last week and a half and this coming week is not looking to be any warmer. So as you remember pray for Romania and other Europiean countries. Fire wood is very expenisive and many families can't afford to buy enough to heat their homes and they burn plastic, tires, clothes, shingles or whatever they find that is burnable to try to keep warm, and with all the ice; snow and wind it makes things harder.

Now with this house it is one of the poorer  homes in the village of Caramidari. there are homes better than this one, a lot better actually, but homes like this also do exist, to say that this is the norm... would be a lie but to say that people are not living in conditions like this would also be a lie. 

Thanks and God bless.

Well this last week has been full of kindergarten; homework; Sunday school and cleaning and I started to drive! so that has been an adventure of getting used to driving in a foreign country and there rules, which I think the biggest one is watch out for pedestrians and you can honk at any given time for any given reason, and speed limits as well as stop signs are really on vague guidelines... but all in all I'm doing okay with the driving.

We also had our first snow fall so that made everything look fresh and white for a half of a day... now things are just soggy and gross...

and as normal here are some pictures.

Every morning when the kids come to kindergarten they have some free time to play or color or put together puzzles and here are some pictures of that happening. 

Snow ball fight, also the kindergarten kids. 

Sunday school in Chiselet, this is the group of the younger kids. 

Also in Chiselet and the Sunday school, but these are the older kids. 

This is just a sunset that I really enjoyed. :) 

A street in the village of Chiselet after the snow. 

Dana and I <3 

May you have a blessed and fantastic day. :)