Day 13 and 14: Ice Cream and Sunshine

Yesterday Katie and I almost had a reenactment of the Office Space scene with the copy machine – except ours was with Attila’s computer. His printer has given us trouble from the start with at least three paper jams a night, but yesterday morning we woke up to find that his computer was refusing to cooperate and promptly froze as soon as I tried to open one of my documents. This was at about 8:40 and after spending a good twenty minutes trying to figure out what to do, Katie and I just had to go ahead and leave with absolutely no notes, and no idea what to do. I knew I wanted to teach prepositions in a new way because Wednesday I just didn’t feel like anything was getting through. So Katie and I improvised all four of our classes and I think it probably ended up being the best teaching day we’ve had so far.

I think God was trying to teach US a lesson in confidence, but apparently it didn’t take too well because this morning we were still without a printer and computer, but we saved a bunch of things on Katie’s computer. Unfortunately, Katie’s computer died as soon as we got to the church – so once again we were without any notes. And this time, I had absolutely NO IDEA what to try to teach. Katie and I both had spurts of genius for our classes and we ended up being just fine. I made up games today for my afternoon Intermediate class because it’s mostly children and I think this was the most fun that they have had in the entire two weeks. They begged us not to stop the games when it was time for class to end. It was really rewarding and such a good way to end our two week teaching period here.

We have fallen in love with the ice cream here. Attila informed us that he could live off of it haha. Yesterday during our break, we bought some at the store and ate it in a little park a couple of blocks from church. We were all three sitting in silence just enjoying the weather (it actually wasn’t raining!) when out of the blue, Attila turned to Katie and I and remarked, “If you ever don’t know something, just eat an ice cream!” Oh the wisdom of that man. I think that might have to be my new life credo. :D

Today Katie and I were able to take a nap outside during our break! It was incredible. As I'm sure I have mentioned more than once, I have been missing warm weather, and today really was the first day that we have had sunshine for a lengthy period of time. It was sunny for awhile yesterday, but then it rained later on. Today, however, was perfect. I think summer is finally on it's way.

We ate lunch at Lala and Ester’s (Zozo’s brother and sister-in-law) house today, and Ester made the most amazing cake I have ever had in my entire life. I am not exaggerating. The closest thing I can compare it to is an ice cream cake, but it wasn’t. The filling was some kind of chocolate and vanilla mousse, and I think the cake part was a yellow cake, but the mousse was frozen. I don’t know – I really can’t describe it much better than that. It was incredible. Katie and I both made Ester promise she would teach us how to make it. She is precious. We have really enjoyed having her in our class. She and Lala are having a baby in November, and they plan to name her Katie. We were both so excited to hear that haha.

Tomorrow we are going fishing!! I can’t wait. I really hope it doesn’t rain. The weather forecast has predicted it, but I’m hoping maybe it will be wrong. We have to wake up at 3:00 tomorrow morning! Aaaahhh. Oh well. I’m pretty sure it will be more than worth it; I’m just not looking forward to losing sleep. I am not sure at this point exactly who Attila has invited; I think some of the gypsy men from Apalina, and possibly Isti and his father. I’m sure tomorrow we’ll have a huge group because word gets around quickly here, and the men LOVE fishing.

I cannot believe that we have already been here for two weeks. It is going by so fast! I cannot even begin to express how much we have been blessed by this trip so far. Even when things have gone wrong, God has pulled us through in marvelous ways, and has sent us blessings we could never have imagined. Why is it so hard to just let go and trust Him sometimes? "I do believe, help my unbelief!" He is taking such incredible care of us here - every day I am being reminded of how His love is steadfast; it never wavers.