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Yet another full couple of weeks since I last blogged!   Last week was full of work, musical preparation, dog sitting and oh yeah – a car accident.   All is well – I’m ok and we shall see how the car is; Bob's mechanic is working some magic (I hope).    Yet another experience in a foreign country where I don’t know the language but it worked out ok; even with a dead phone through the whole experience:). I just arrived home this morning (Friday, April 24, 2015) from Bucharest, Romania.   I attended a conference…yes, a conference.   I could not help comparing it to conferences I have attended in the past.   Similar in the fact that very ‘expert’ people were involved and it was organized well…but the topic and approach were quite different. It was the European Freedom Network – anti-human trafficking.    I was honored to be included in a group of people that got to stay at a shelter for trafficked women during the conference.   To be ...

This world is fairly small.   I know it takes 14-16 hours to travel to Budapest from California and about 24 hours to go to Ethiopia from California but when you think about it; the world is fairly small.   I was in Romania all last week…we had Korean, Hungarian, American, and Romanian folks around all week long and I loved the diversity!   The Romanian language made me feel a bit more ‘at home’ since it is considered one of the Romantic languages…so some words were very Spanish like!   The Roman Empire ruled that area early on so thus the whole Italian/Roman (as in Romanian) influence J .   We visited villages…they were very poor villages.   The kids found refuge at the church with a lady that cared for them.   She has green houses and an aqua-ponics system so she can grow enough food to feed all these kids each week.   For some of the kids; that is their only meal of the week.   They come on Fridays and eat several bowls of soup and b...

Wow…what an amazing 3 weeks since I last blogged!   Literally confounded at how time is flying by.   So…that’s not too exciting but the past few weeks have been very exciting! We started an English Club at the local Hungarian elementary school.   Wow, wow, and wow…it has been so great!   We pick a ‘theme’ each week…and we have vocabulary words, songs and games to go along with it all.   Today we did Easter – with a word search, puzzles of vocab words and pictures to match them…it was all very good.   Last week was St. Patrick’s Day so that was our theme…you kinda get where we are going with this?   The kids seem to enjoy it and now we won’t be there for two weeks since there is spring break coming up and a national holiday…the kids were bummed (at least they said and acted like it – I hope it’s true). I am truly bummed J . The shelter kids are just so awesome…we see them around town and they stop, say ‘hi’, wave, smile, whatever – I love it!...