Graduation..one year later

Yesterday, I met with some TESL girls with whom I graduated with /went through classes together! It was a blast to catch up and hang out. We came from Vienna, Budapest, Buenos Aires, Montgomery(AL), Lynchburg (VA), York (PA), and Richmond(VA). It was AWESOME!

Changes..



2 got married, 1 more is engaged, 1 had a baby, one has one on the way

chip the chaplain

One of my close friends is a chaplain in Afghanistan. Today they were struck with 9 deaths. Please pray for him as he serves and lives in Afghanistan.

I'm proud of every soldier who serves for our country and our freedom! No matter what our opinion on war we should support our soldiers and pray for them!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080713/ap_on_re_as/afghanistan

this article is about where they are.

First Day in USA

These are flowers my sis met me with-my fav!

So what do you do on your first day back in the USA..

... of course you go shopping.

As I stood in the aisles in Taret (thought of you Stacey) I was a bit overwhelmed by all the choices of everything. We have a lot in Hungary but oh my goodness to see all of the familiar things like goldfish, cap'n crunch, cheeze its, chewy gronal bars and my fav vitamin water was pretty amazing. I bought a few new things at Old Navy too ..gotta love summer sales. Barnes and Noble was great because I could read every book in that store without thinking twice..aahhh.

The Euro Cup 2008 was being shown on ABC so I watched my team win which was amazing! Go Spain!

So now that the shopping bug is out of my system.. I woke up at 545 i guess becaue of jetlag and read.. read my Bible, wrote in my journal and finished an amazing book called The Shack that my dad gave me. Powerful.

Now i'm at just chillin at my sister's working on some things to show people and to give to people. Here's some pretty pics of my purchases!

Home in the USA

I'm home safely after over 24 hours of travelling..ugh dealys..

culture shock 1: everyone speaks English
culture shock 2: woah diversity..(not much of that in Hungary)

thanks lil sis for my beautiful flowers and chic-fil-a!!

more to come!

EURO Cup 2008

I went to Vienna on Saturday with my friend Kristin. I had texted her on Friday morning asking if she wanted to go just for fun!! :) We boarded the 7:10 train and were on our way! We stopped at Starbucks for an Americano..yum. We walked around the Euro Cup FanZone. The EuroCup is being held in Austria and Switzerland this year. Its been really cool to watch the games and be involved in what's going on here in Budapest but to go to Vienna and be around all of the craziness was soo fun.

I made it my goal to go to random fans and ask for their pictures with me! I got my team.. SPAIN! and a few other countries. Of course we did some shopping while we were terrorzing fans! Love sales in Vienna!

The best part of the day.. Turkey had won the previous night and so they were holding their flags and walking around in groups. (sorry laci) I saw a bunch of guys asking this one guy for autographs and making lots of noise so I saw a very handsome tall man in the middle.. oh he must be a soccer player! And so as he was trying to walk away I ran up to him and asked him for a picture! So he agreed.. and it turned out to be a defense man for the team but it was fun!!

I had a blast just getting away from what sometimes becomes the mundane in Budapest. Thanks Krisitn for coming with me!!

Camp/Team

My first Langos (fried dough covered in cheese and sour cream)



The team has been here in Budapest for one week so far and it has been NON-STOP! I have three 17/18 year olds living in my 2 bedroom apartment which makes for a fun time where there is always something happening but one thing I love about teenagers they can sleep and I have my quiet mornings :)

We have finished 2 days of English Camp and it has been a blast! Monday was spent at Margit Island playing sports, hanging out and getting to know one another. Tuesday was spent with the kids on a Scavenger Hunt (thanks for the list Aaron) where they did activities all over the city..it was great watching them. Today, its raining pretty steadily so I think we must scratch Amazing Race and we are going to go bowling instead.

I love being apart of everything that is happening and it makes me excited for these kids to practice their English with people their own age! Here are pictures of some of the time here with the team!

Good-bye to a good friend

Today a good friend of mine from Budapest moved back home in full obedience to God. I'm so sad to see him leave but I know that he is doing what he needs to do!

Aaron-- you will be missed..Thanks for all the laughs, talks, football matches, walks down random secret streets, coffee shops, twss, hikes up mountains, and whatever else we did! but most importantly thanks for being a great friend and helping me deal with culture here in Budapest!! Koszi!!