2014. A Year in Review.

2014.365 days.I've lived on 2 continents and 1 island. Visited 17 countires and 7 islands. Flew on 38 planes. Traveled on too many buses to count. Survived on public transportation for 6 months.Visited 3 states.What a year it has been. I started this year in Utah with my best friend Michelle. We laughed our heads off while playing...

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America. Round 2.

I've been home for one week. I want to rejoice in all that has happened and weep in knowing I have one less week before I get back on a plane.This week has been fabulous. The weather. The food. The bed. The dryers. The make up. The animals. The family. Let's start with the weather. I left a cold, dark, and dreary world to come to the land of sunshine....

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The Last Goodbye

 Today was hard. I didn't think it would be. Infact I woke up and literally jumped out of bed in excitement! I am going home today! I wanted to run and scream through the hAll but my roommates were sleeping. Tonight I get to see my parents, sleep in a real bed, and most importantly hug my dogs....

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I'm Coming Home, Again.

I feel like it was forever ago that I was writing this same post, but in Fiji. Weird how it has been 5 months. This post though has a different attitude to it. I'm ready to come home. I am excited. I cannot wait. One thing I wish it that I could have lived in Fiji for 5 months and Lithuania for 7 weeks....

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A Christmas Program

Wednesday and Thursday were my last days in the classroom and they also were the EL2 and EL1 Christmas programs. Wednesday. I had only 3 kids no show which was a relief. For our performance we put on a puppet show. The children wrote their own scripts, made their puppets, and some even learned a song. Dominyka choreographed a dance to All I Want...

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The Three Year Olds

After I teach my elementary classes I teach a handful of pre learners. This consists of 3 to 6 three year olds. Let me tell you when Mikele first told me I had to do this, I wanted to cry. I had my experience in church nursery and I hated it. In the beginning I would switch off half way with another girl and we tried open play.It was a disaster.A...

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A Lithuanian Christmas

We decided that on Saturday we would have a Christmas party before our trip to see the Nutcracker. Thus began preparations. We would recreate our Thanksgiving feast just in more massive proportions so that it could feed us until we go home. next week! Two turkeys were ordered, two huge bags of potatoes mashed, pounds and pounds of sweet potatoes...

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An unUZual Stamp

So I was about to type up a post on the trip to Uz to get a passport stamp. When to my shock and surprise Mikele had already posted!  This never happens people. Usually my roommates are weeks  behind me in blog posting but Mikele one upped me today and I thought well... if she already wrote out the whole thing, and she is a great writer......

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A Frozen BBQ.

Today was spectacular. I wish I could have more Sundays like today. It started early this morning when we went to church. We missed our bus and had to stand in the cold. That was not spectacular. It was also not spectacular when I missed my bus coming home. There we were walking out of church and we see it. The 2g. I swear to you this always happens....

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A Lithuanian Lunch.

Lithuania has some food I like and some food I really don't like. Nevertheless I've managed to gain all the weight I lost in Fiji and then some. Darn those good foods. Don't worry, China will heal this. Anyway. Remember the days when we used to get food from the school? The first few weeks we loved it and thought it was delicious. By the end of month...

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38 Planes Later

38.The number of planes I have boarded this year. And I don't have frequent flyer miles. ✈️Epic fail.Some people don't even fly 38 times in their whole life and I've done it in one year. Crazy. Crazy I tell yah.That is boarding a plane every 9 days for a whole year!Sheesh. I should calculate how many hours I spent in the sky. That would be...

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