A little brightness on a otherwise gloomy day...... ya today was one of those i just felt like climbing into a hole and hiding from the world! The morning started out fine with me even thinking it would be a good day at language school, boy was I wrong.... if any of you want a humbling experience try a intensive study class, i felt a bit like a two year old child who accidentally walked into a university lecture, ya it was painful. after class we came home thinking maybe we could get some stuff done, like finding a christmas tree, picking up pictures and the such but of course when we got to the tree place it was closed, not that we had plans of buying a big tree, we are hoping for a small shrub or something like that which of course is even harder to find. then we went to pick up our pictures, also not there, anyways maybe it seems like not so much but some days they just add up to alot....... on a more interesting note yesterday was saint miklocs day here, which is a big deal here and as you can see in the pic below he even pays canadians a visit! the tradition here is that on dec.6th if a child is good he will receive chocolate in his shoes and if he has been bad golden twigs will be found, on our front steps we found chocolate and at class we got chocolate and twigs, so apparently we are good neighbours but only marginal students!