Overdue

Many of you know what I have been doing lately, and therefore you have granted me extra measures of grace for not blogging in almost a month. However, for those of you who do not know, let me tell you. I am moving. I’m sure you knew it was coming, but we are right in the middle of it. I have been trying to juggle school, moving, yearbook (even though Scott is the man in this area), blogging, and spending time with Bosnians, unfortunately I have not been able to keep all those balls in the air. I have dropped blogging, and have dramatically fumbled the yearbook-ball.

So here is what is going on. Today is May 31st (oh my goodness I forgot the deadline for the MK-transition camp is today!!!) This means that I have exactly 26 days to wrap up my life in Bosnia. How can eight years be wrapped up in twenty-six days? How can I possibly say all the things I should have said? How can I do all those things that I said, “I’ll do later”? On top of trying to wrap up my life I have to pack and do school. Overall, I hope you can see why I have not blogged in a long time. I’m sorry about that.

Okay, since you have not heard from me let me tell you a little bit what has happened for a month.

We (the co-op) had the banquet. It went perfectly! All the girls looked beautiful, the boys looked handsome. The food was delicious. The dancing…crazy. It was incredible! Since I was in charge of the whole thing I was a little bit worried, but all went smoothly and we had an unforgettable night.

We also had a graduation ceremony for me, Kelly, and special recognition for Shannon. It was amazing. I was not expecting to cry, but I did. It was kind of hard not to when your own father gets up on stage and can’t get a hold of himself. Needless to say, I was bawling. But it was so sweet when a lot of my closest Bosnian friends came, despite the fact that they could not understand anything. It was a day I will never forget.

My family then had our annual Cinco de Mayo party, however it was different from all others. It was really our e-may sale (get it, e-bay…e-may…)We had practically our whole house up for sale. The bigger items were up for the silent auction. It was rather funny because when it got down to the last minutes, the missionaries were pushing past each other, running up and down our stairs trying to get to the item they wanted to buy, making sure no one had written down a bigger bid. Women and children were squished in the mob. Life-threats were placed on the biggest bidders. Guns and knifes were used in order to insure an item to a buyer. …Okay it might not have been that bad, but it was true that they were pushing past each other, and running up and down our stairs. It was quite funny to see grown adults panic when I yelled the 30-second countdown. If you were not there, you missed out.

This week is my last week of classes on Potter School. (Although I do have my last assignments due next week) I can then concentrate on more important things then school. However, I still have far too much to do, in way too much time. Please be praying for me and my family.

Make sure and check my blog tomorrow as I will post pictures from the banquet and graduation. Don’t forget to keep on checking for updates, my dear readers.

I leave you with rather funny pictures that Tiffany sent me. This would be true if “Women Ruled the World.” I laughed pretty hard. And as one of the biggest goals of my blog, I hope I made you laugh, at least once.

Until next time…

Oh! Don't be so fickle!

I swear parents have some of the oddest habits. I grew up under the strictest rules for my movies. I wasn’t allowed to watch Aladdin until I was 13! (I'm not even gonna mention that fact that my brother was 8 when he watched it!!!!!!) Now days, I pretty much pick the movies I want to watch. However, there still are "family rules" that we go by whenever we watch a movie as a family. Well, these so called rules are actually more like guidelines. Here is an example of how weird and fickle my parents are. About six months ago my mom and brother rented Peter Pan, the newest, real-life version of it. But they turned it off because of, well; now that I think of it I forgot why they turned it off. I think it had to do with it being too evil or something. Yet, today as I sit in bed (yes, I am still sick) I can hear in the other room my parents and Lucas finishing up the second disk of season 1 of Pimp My Ride. Is there something wrong with that!?!? However, you don’t hear my complaining. Could you ever hear me saying “Mom, Dad, your movie ‘rules’ are pathetic and fickle. You need to be more strict.” I DON’T THINK SO! Anyway, so as I enjoy the perks of having ‘guidelines’ on the movies we watch, I have to wonder… are all parents as fickle as mine?

Presents, cevapi, and sickness...

Well, Mom and Dad have come home! With them they brought a ton, and I mean a TON, of presents! Most of them are for my room in FL. I had already picked out my colors (deep orange, red, some browns, and yellow-gold) therefore when mom went to Thailand she bought me a whole bunch of silk pillowcases and decorations for my room! In all it has been nice to have mom and dad back, although I had an awesome time with Tiff!

Speaking of have an awesome time I had a lovely 1 May. Lucas, Tiff, and I all went up to Visoko for some yummy cevapi and drustvo. It was the Jocques, Andy, Mario, Slado, Lina, Amanda, and Elizabeth Ann, and Scott. Unfortunately it was raining. But of course Donovan built a marvelous shelter for us involving a tarp, a sun umbrella, a broomstick, two vehicles and duct tape. For the meals we all sat in side the van while Mario and Donovan cooked the cevapi under the protection of the van’s trunk door. Needless to say it was very smoky inside the van, but the pasta salad (compliments to Joce) and the cevapi were really yummy. Then when it was only drizzling a bunch of us went out and play Frisbee in the mud. About an hour before we had to head back home it stopped raining completely we sat around in a circle while I took weird pictures of Brugger’s beautiful eyes. J Then we headed home from a joyful reunion with my parents.

However, on a more negative note- my sickness has relapsed. I didn’t do anything yesterday or today. I will be very upset if I am sick tomorrow, for I have a very important date I must attend. The date is with the hottest hottie ever…Tiffany Winters! We have a date to watch the new Pink Panther, which will be in theaters tomorrow night. Oh, I hope I will be better.