Half Full, Half Empty, Half Way

My fourth and midway week was not as exciting as last week's protest and sketchy adventure in Kisac but rewarding all the same. It was a week of fellowship, yummy food, misunderstandings, and laughter. 

A true highlight of my summer is the Roma ESL class. Something about those kiddos bring joy to my life. Despite everything in life, they still smile. Unfortunately, I cannot say that I have smiled in my trials and tribulations. Can you? Each Monday and Wednesday, I see them smile and I am reminded that their lives have been much harder than my life, and yet they smile! Oh how children are sometimes the teacher.

 

Waiting outside the church..they come early :)

Precious boy! We learned how to count and draw specific objects.

Teaching "Head, Shoulders, Knees" to them.

Showing them that what they were eating was in fact the same thing in the picture: a cookie. Something foreign to them. Some didn't want to eat it because they had never had one before. Don't take your cookies for granted!

 Another great moment of last week was Wednesday night..Amy and I took two great girls to an equally fabulous restaurant in the hopes of hearing the concert behind the mall. The concert portion didn't work out but the night was still loads of fun! Though they are only 11, they are nearly as tall as Amy and I and have beautiful hearts to share Love with their friends.

The weekend began with Amy's birthday eve! We ate at Novak Djokovic's restaurant, which is in the building next to us. No biggie. Even better is that we got our picture with the terracotta-ish statue of Nole's face with a racquet.

We ended the night with Snow White and the Huntsman. It's different to laugh at something funny in the movie and then five seconds later everyone else laughs after the translation appears.
Now it's Amy's 24th birthday day! Saturday was filled with awesomeness!! A great American lunch of chili hot dogs and seven layer dip and phenomenal dinosaur cake! Before we could go to Cirque du Soleil's Alegria, we had to get our faces painted in the tiniest chair possible. But Cirque was great! Glad it's them and not me doing all that bending, flipping, and flying.

My midway week concluded with Fellowship. There was 15 in total studying the Word! Even better was the number of college students. It's extremely hard to get college-aged students interested in something that is completely opposite of the world. But the five students there, they get it and desire to tell their families and friends. Even though everything was in Serbia, it was a blessing to be apart of this Fellowship.


This week two teams of 15 each are coming in: one comes tomorrow (4th) is for a fellow organization that will work mainly in Novi Sad and the other is ours and comes the (6th). Our team will be here for two weeks. Please think of both of these teams as they travel, live within the  culture, and teach English.