Mexican food

okay, so I don't have a ton of time to update so this is going to be hurried a bit:

Monday started early with a prayer/ staff meeting. this meeting was an intense prayer time and I’m so relieved to know that we’re in good hands.

Afterwards Mary and I got all settled into our apartment (it’s small- we look forward to posting some pictures), bought groceries (you have to pay for bags here… we need to remember our own bags!), and did a load of wash :-) 3 cheers for clean clothes!

In the middle of us running around, we were asked to help a fellow JV intern to clean her house. That was awesome :-) Erin lives in a quaint little cottage style house in a tiny village near Kranj. Mary and I were set to work. As thanks, Erin decided to take us around Kranj and show us 'old town'. On our walk I enjoyed people watching and Mary enjoyed taking pictures of every flowerbox we walked by (we’ll probably upload some pictures when we have more time). She took us to a mexican place for food... I got a little excited about using my spanish skills but ot my dismay... the guy didn't know a lick of spanish.. not even gracias.. I think i cried a little... (not really)

After our trip, we caught a train and crashed at Christina and Anna’s apartment. Actually, we just spent a long time over there in hopes that our laundry was dry.. it wasn’t

Tuesday was a relaxing day. Mary and I headed out to a shop called ZEBRA to copy two packets and six teaching handbooks (80 pages EACH!)… that’s a lot of copying. We decided not to wait around for the job to be finished and made our way to the market to buy a flower to put in our apartment- This is probably Mary’s favorite purchase so far. We spent a while picking out just the right flower and then headed back to pick up our copied items. Mary and I then spent a good chunk of time organizing our class agendas/ curriculum. I’m pretty sure we lost our minds..

We had a ton of work and decided to buy some fruits at this vendor that Christina told us about. We got a cucumber and cauliflower for our salad that evening as well as some raspberries for dessert. Praise God we found SALAD Dressing which apparently they don’t really eat here. Mary almost cried when she found out it was ranch :-).. so did I :-)

After dinner it was back to work… We planned three classes and read a packet with good insight on how to do ministry.. we were burnt out on reading.

Do you understand what it is like to not have communication with the outside world? Have NO forms of media entertainment (TV, Movies, Music, Computer…). Mary and I broke down and listened to music (one at a time mind you since we’re listening from a portable CD player with headphones).

I think we both benefited from that.. then we sang together… that helped too.

This morning (Wednesday) both Mary and I had the privilege and the challenge of taking showers in our bathroom.. I wish I could give you the dimensions of this room… hopefully we’ll get a picture of it on here for you all to see… until then you can wait in suspense.

Then it was off to a prayer/ staff meeting (Mary will go into more depth about this later). There was good food and now we’re heading out to meet with Naja to shop and plan for a girls’ night.

-Lindy for the MaryLindy team