Epuizata

Exhausted. That's the only word I can find to describe me tonight. It's barely 10 o'clock and I'm fighting to keep my eyes open to post this (since I know you are all waiting with bated breath).

First, it's time for a celebration! Tonight I taught my first lesson completely in Romanian! I had intended to teach a Sunday School lesson last month in Romanian and was prepared to do so until, just before class began, a whole big group of Americans walked in; if I had taught in [bad] Romanian, someone else would have had to translate into [bad] English...and that would have been doubly frustrating for me. So, yay for having finally jumped the hurdle! Not sure that I will teach Sunday School this week in Romanian, but we'll see how tomorrow goes.

Second, a bit of an explanation. The Budapest picture from my last post wasn't completely random. I actually spent all of last week in Budapest at an ESL conference led by Michael Pasquale. In the evenings, we did a little bit of sightseeing & picture-taking. Now more than ever I would like to switch to a digital SLR camera...maybe someday! I've been looking at film SLRs on eBay since so many people are now switching to digital & getting rid of their film cameras. Until then, my Canon PowerShot does the job with a little bit of coaxing.

Oh, yeah...we were there for a conference, weren't we?





I drove back to Romania last Friday and brought a colleague from Slovakia with me. Nancy is helping us for a couple of weeks with our quarterly teacher training sessions; I'm sure the teachers are enjoying having some fresh ideas and a fresh face in front! Nancy stayed with me until our Monday night team meeting and then moved to another family's home for the week.

This week has been crazy busy with finishing a promotional brochure for the teacher training conference in September, helping teammate Jeff Broome pack up his family's belongings to ship back to the US, and being sick the last couple of days. Between all of that, I didn't have a lot of prep time for teaching tonight (probably good...no time to freak out about teaching in Romanian; just jump in and do it!).

For Kris' sake...here are a couple of pics from the container packing this morning. Sadly, I was in the container helping with the baby grand piano, so I have no pictures of the piano on the forklift. Or maybe that is for the better...

The loading crew...

Closing the doors...

And that's the short version of the saga that was this week. Maybe if I write more often I won't have quite so much to pack into one post, huh? Ok, it's off to bed for me. Have a happy Friday evening!