Szia!

Szia is kind of like ciao in Hungarian. So hello!!
I know I have not posted in quite some time, but I have been trying to get good pictures of life here so you could see some of Budapest and home here. So I live on an island in the Danube called Csepel (pronounced che-pell). We live on property owned by our school so its pretty neat. Why you ask? Because our school, Kossuth Lajos....., is aimed at students pursuing airplane and vehicular mechanics. So this is what the house looks like:

It's pretty sweet. Of the three windows on the second floor, mine is the one on the left. And this is what I see when I look out my window:
Why yes. That is a helicopter on the right and some planes on the left. Way cool.
Living in Europe is definitely an interesting experience. It is quite freeing to know that even if you have been sweating all day, without air conditioning, you still showered this morning and are wearing deodrant. This by default makes you one of the best smelling people on the tram. Fabulous!
Since it's late here and I have church in the morning, I'll end with a couple of prayer requests.
School starts on Monday. I feel a bit direction-less and confused. Pray for wisdom and leadership as well as classroom managing skills.
I'm having trouble sleeping all the way through the night. I have trouble going to sleep and then wake up several times. It would be wonderful to get some good solid rest as school gets started.
Discipline in my walk with the Lord. I've had a hard time for a while now in regularly reading the Word and I know that will be necessary in the coming year.

I thank the Lord for each of you every day. Even if you accidentally landed on this page and have never even met me. God bless and I'll try to be more dilligent in blogging as well.
hugs and misses!

a barrage of ants...

Training continues and I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. We have 10 days left until we fly to Budapest on the 19th (technically we leave on the 19th and arrive on the 20th but ya know). It's a bit difficult to imagine leaving all my new friends since those of us in the Central Europe group have grown pretty tight. My teammates themselves are amazing and it begets a great excuse to travel to the Czech Republic and Slovakia to see them. Teaching last week wasn't too bad although there was a panic when we had to plan lessons for that evening and buy international life insurance all in three hours! Again, the Lord is good and carried me through the stress.
If you all could pray for more supporters for myself and the rest of the teachers here at TeachOverseas.org, we would all really appreciate it. I am fortunate enough to be in a pretty good spot for support (minus the new insurance policy) but some of my compatriots are struggling. Also if you could lift up the visa situations. The Slovak girls are all set and most of my team to Budapest is almost done, but only five of the 18 people going to the Czech Republic have their visas. If they don't go through the process in time they have to wait and find something to do and somewhere to be until they are free to enter the country. I can't even imagine how hard it would be to be prepared and leave not to mention if I had to go home until I could leave again. What a heart breaker! Oh, the "Barrage of Ants" comment is a reflection of the epidemic proportions of ants that live in our dorms. They are by far the dumbest breed ever as they much prefer pouring over books and sunglasses to candy and chips.
In other news I survived my first earthquake. Yes, I panicked a little, (Ohio does not move!) but we're all quite fine.
I'll be praying for you! Hugs and misses!

Hungarian word of the day:

paradicsom (pair-ah-dee-choam) = tomato!