A Day in the Life of...

It's 11 o'clock here and guess what I'm doing? I'm still doing my HOMEWORK! How does this still fit into my life?...It does, but I'm glad to be learning. I can't wait to be able to speak this language! It's coming along. "Yavas, Yavas". (Say it like yavash, yavash). It means: slowly, slowly. Your Turkish is coming along, too!

I'm Katie's roomie this week while Craig's away on a football camp trip with our boss. The two of us had a super busy but fun day! Our friend came to church to hear me sing this morning. Yep, I'm on the rotation already again! We were so glad to see her there. After that, she took us to one of her favorite cafes in her neck of the woods and we had lunch. There we are in the pic on the left. Then we went down by the lake in our city. There's a path that winds around the lake and people take picnics to that part of town or in the summer, you can rent a bike and ride around the lake. It was so beautiful and today was a great day. It's warmed up a little from the Arctic weather we've been having. The only down side of that part of the day was that these boots that I was wearing were not made for walking and thats just what they did...all day! We kept having to take breaks for me and my shoes!

We met our friend's family and had tea at her aunt and uncle's house while a 70's Turkish movie played in the background. It was a perfect Turkish afternoon. We went to the grocery store tonight and stocked up for the week. The grocery store is a semi-hilarious experience with us. Between the two of us, our cart, and our dictionary we managed to get almost everything on our list. For the life of me and the Red house dictionary, we cannot figure out how to translate nutmeg. Any who, we're ready to do some serious hospitality baking this week. We went to our local van man for our produce needs. His "store" is the picture on the right. Then dinner was caught on fire. We Skyped a little and now we are finishing up homework. All in all, a really busy day! Oh yeah, so maybe at one point during the dinner preparations, fire was coming out of the oven. That about sums it up. Don't you like how that sentence is passive to avoid disclosing the actual burner culprit (smile). I told Katie, I could keep a secret... We're okay and so was dinner, it's all a day in the life of my Turkish self.