Happy MLK Day!

Sadly, that is not a celebrated holiday in Hungary...so I hope all of you enjoy your day off!

Random thoughts from this weekend:

• I will never understand Hungarian customer service -- as in, for example, the ridiculous amount of time I spent this weekend trying to flag down waitstaff. It was actually kind of funny for the first 30 minutes or so...
• Went to see Step Up this weekend and noticed that Heather and I were the only ones to laugh in a few places. Apparently several jokes are lost in translation, making it immediately obvious to everyone which audience members were American.
• first basketball game in our new gym! Our boys played pretty well but couldn't quite get the win. It was a lot of fun to watch a little b-ball. not as much fun to find that my boys in Carolina blue lost this weekend. I KNEW I would jinx them -- I'm like the SI cover curse!
• tried to make beef stew this weekend and encountered some unusual vegetables...anyone know of a vegetable that tastes like celery? I've never seen anything like it.
• It is so frustrating to know exactly what I should say in Hungarian, work up the courage to say it, and apparently mispronounce it so badly that it cannot be understood. I almost want to give up and just point all the time. or carry around a giant signboard....wouldn't that be cute?
• however, at church I got so excited -- because I actually read something! usually the Hungarian and English versions are posted during worship, but this is a Hungarian song. I figured out that it was the Bible verse about no eye has seen, etc. I was so incredibly proud. so back to studying this insanely difficult language.... which I can (sort of) read but not speak! sigh.

all right -- time for Bible study with my 11th grade girls! We're reading Experiencing God -- which I also read in 11th grade. Talk about a blast from the past... Have a great day.