Monday, September 15, 2008

brief.

hey guys! thanks for all the comments. here's a brief update (along with some pics i managed to upload before the computer i was using crashed. most of these computers don't have mmc/sd card readers so it makes uploading things difficult)

school has gone incredibly well. i have 8 students at the moment: two french girls, one turkish boy, an american boy and girl, one hungarian boy, one korean girl, and one israeli girl. all of the staff get along incredibly well and i have a feeling it's going to be an excellent year. the first week of school was a bit bumpy, but i'm getting my sea legs.

looks like me and the other guys (micah and kim; did i introduce them?) will be going to budapest on the 22nd for a few days to see how they run the school there. i'll get to sit in on the 1st-2nd class and learn some things.

we're still looking for an apartment, but hopefully by the end of the week we'll have something. we've been staying with a wonderful jewish family from the church for the past week or so. costina (the mum) is an administrator at the school and she's been making us absolutely delicious food all week long.

the weather here is starting to get cold; we had the first rain for awhile on saturday and it's not looking like we'll have another warm day again. i'm obscenely excited about snow, but everyone here says that after 3 or 4 months of trudging through it everyday i won't be. we'll see!

(i'll try and get some more related pictures on the next post)



the narrowest street in europe!


wu-tang represent.


a crater lake we went to.

alright, it's 10.30 and i have to get up at 6...blegh.
coffee!

Friday, September 5, 2008

disconnected

sorry about the lack of updates. this week has been absolutely insane, and i haven't had access to the internet/a pc till now.
this city is beautiful, the people are wonderful, and i'm super stoked about this year. i'll be teaching first and second grade and school starts monday, so please pray that everything goes well because i'm (currently) a bit overwhelmed. i'll try and update this with some pics and a longer post later during the week (the school should have internet sometime then...)


don't forget me!