week in review

well this week has flown by like every other one lately. ravi and amanda left yesterday morning so we are just back to the two of us. it was so fun to have visitors and some old friends to hang out with. as much as Hungary is feeling like home to us it's so nice to just be able to relax with good friends and have a taste of home, they even brought us some ivory soap which was a smell of home, funny how things like that can bring you to another place and of course we are looking forward to our next visitors who come in only a months time...mom & dad klassen (that's if the passport people decide to give them their new passports in time!)

anyways, on monday kyle and i had 2 classes of English and worked on our new prayer letter, while r&a were exploring budapest. on tuesday we were at team prayer meeting and in the later afternoon we met up with our friends to take them to a thermal bath house...experience true Hungarian culture! we spent 3 hours in there, it was pretty funny, watching all the regulars play chess in the pool and standing over the "healing jets"...amanda wasn't quite a fan of this part of the experience, oh well it was funny to watch her! on wednesday we went into ofalu to do some practical work (painting basketball backboards) and set up for the clothing bazaar. r&a were quite willing to help us out, so we put them to work...just kidding, but thanks again for helping us guys! i put on 2 pics of the bazaar before anyone came to show the amount of stuff that we have. (im hiding in one of the pictures!) every week we put out different boxes of clothes. we still are opening new ones too, the people love it when we bring out a new bag/box...it gets a little crazy. at the end you cant see anymore boxes cause all the clothes are spread in huge piles on top of them. then we get to clean them up and pack them all away every week, so its a big job. but its always interesting, we have regulars that come and we are getting to know them quite well. they always end up trying on all these crazy clothes and laugh hysterically....we all end up laughing by the end. rita (our co-worker) is thinking of starting a womens club once a week for all these ladies, we hope it works out and they come out. on thursday we finished painting the b-ball boards and it was time for baseball practice. this was the 2nd practice of the year. now we are coaching the kids and teenage boys team too. we have about 14 kids come (mostly new kids!) and about 20 boys. so its a good turnout this year. ravi got to be the back catcher for the kids team....thanks! i got nailed in the big toe with a ball thanks to little Attilla...he said sorry and felt really bad, but it was a good practice and we even have 4 girls on the team. yesterday we had english club with the 3 kids. im not so sure that friday is the best day for them....they we so hyper and excited. we taught them the different kinds of weather. the one kid kept saying "claudia" for cloudy, but i think he learned it in the end! it was hilarious, we ended up laughing a bunch and played a couple of games. thats our week in a nut shell.

its saturday morning and we just finished eating a breakfast made by my lovely husband...egg mcmuffins, yummy. and now kyle is vacuuming and mopping, so its my turn to do my part of the cleaning...the bathroom! sorry if this blog is a little random....have a great weekend.