June 7th 2012
Yesterday: summary. Climbed a mountain...about 3000 feet in the air. CRAZY! Also, was in a car that almost rolled off a cliff...and almost peed my pants. After sliding down parts of the mountain...it pretty much looked like I had an accident...haha gotta love mud (and I thought I was done with the mud pit....)
Today was such a good day! We woke up early and went and bought breakfast. I was able to order in Bulgarian...well kind of. All I had to say was "chocolate, edno, and caffe" BUT STILL! It was pretty exciting. The place we have decided to call our own is a little bakery type place about a block away. It's really interesting, many of those types of places, you order standing outside in a little window and then point to what you want in the display and then you get your stuff and walk away. It's kind of like DQ...except with legitimate food. Any ways, there is also a coffee shop that we nick named "the office" and we get coffee there. Everyone is really encouraging as we are struggling to make sense with our broken bulgarian. After that, me and BSUE went and did some ZUMBA!!!!! It was so much fun, I've missed doing ZUMBA. We get to teach a class every week, so that is fun. I have a feeling BSUE will do most of the teaching...I'll be one of her backup dancers :) She knows a lot more about it than I do. After that, we met up with the boys who went to a all boys school to talk to them about the summer programs we have going on: the different camps, the adventure club, random outings we are doing and things like that, we went out to lunch and I tried musica for the first time which is a bulgarian/turkish dish with potatos, vegitables, and meat with egg on top. It was really different, but good. We had a meeting to plan the rest of the week and then set off to do work. We had our bulgarian lesson in the afternoon and learned the different forms of "to be" as well as a bunch of other vocab. After that is when my film class I took with Dr. Yaquinto kicked in. I asked/was asked to make a promotional video for the camps this summer and so I spent the afternoon learning how to work IMovie on a mac...as most of you know...I am by no means mac savvy, so it was difficult, but I'll be fine tuning everything tomorrow before we go to the schools. After we ate dinner, a girl stopped by the house named Antonia (Toni). She was so sweet and was the first bulgarian girl I have met officially since I have been here. I am so excited! We are hanging out on Saturday and going on a bike ride with a few of her friends on Sunday. It was totally a gift from God to meet her today, even if she is the only girl I meet this summer, I will feel increadibly blessed. I hope that we become good friends. Oh man. Well, that was pretty much it for today. God is still working on healing my heart...it's just me failing at letting Him fully, but I had many good conversations with BSue which has been helping. I pray for peace in my heart and love for right now...I'm trying to take things slow...I tend to rush things which never really ends up being positive.
I love y'all! I hope you are doing well! Go ahead and post some recent excitement!!!! I would love to hear what is going on in your life and I don't want to feel too out of the loop when I get back!
OH! AND-Belated Congrats to Spencer and Molly Thomas on getting married!!! :) And happy early congrats to Tyler and Dani Jackson, Paul and Melanie Thomas and Josh and Gretchen Day...and everyone else who is getting married this summer that I have epically failed to mention...(if I forgot someone, please tell me and I'll make sure to add them in my next post)!!!
And I almost forgot to mention...a shout out to my dear Camp Eagle family...after many the many stories I've told about CE...Gabe and Melissa (our couple from NMSI who we are interning for) have decided to nick name us Camp Pigon. I thought you would enjoy that. I miss you guys like crazy! Make sure to love on those kids!