2 days.

 

I am sitting here in our living room this morning just thinking about this past summer. I can not believe i have less than two days in this beautiful place. My heart is in a state of unknown. Normally when a student asks " will you be back next year" i can easily say " if not next summer then i will see you in two years".

Unfortunately this summer i can't really promise that to the students. I graduate in May and we all know what that means.. time for a BIG PERSON job. Obviously i am grateful to Todd who for the past 3 years has allowed me to take off for the summers to come here.  I know that window of time isn't always going to be open for me. With the price of ticekts to get here it seems useless to come for just a short stay. well let's not say useless, but it just seems like there is no way i could get it all in in the time i would be here.

Today has been 8 weeks since we left the states. CRAZY

It is so crazy how time just flies by so quickly when i am here. Of course i am ready to get home to see my family and Keith and my friends .. .and also eat mexican food, but it is a really bittersweet feeling as i leave this place. I am asking for some major prayers on this issue. My heart is just so torn and i am not ready to say goodbye not knowing when i will return.

on a brighter note. Tonight we are having a going away party! I am hoping it will include 1.food 2. albanian dancing 3. soccer 4. good fellowship 5. lots of laughing 6. no crying haha

Last night we made our yearly visit to our 1st family friends in KS. The mother is a music teach and she has 3 awesome kids. Each and every year we go to their home and they welcome us with lots of great food. We always do our yearly pictures and just have fun laughing!

 

Now i have to finish my internship paper which is due tonight .

see you in a few days.

Are you kidding me?

Back from camp.

i am so tired. I finally got a decent night of sleep last night just to realize that i have so many visits i want to do and that i have a paper to finish for school by tuesday. OHHH

Camp was great. well if you would of taken away the rain and made it a lot warmer it would of been perfect. It rained tuesday, wednesday, and thursday. We didn't get to go on the BIG HIKE and i am almost positive that is because my mom prayed against it for the 2nd year in the row.

My role at this camp was just behind the scenes. I helped Joanna out and was the media person. It was really tiring, but i played a lot of cards and got to hang out with some really awesome kids.

Some of the guys brought guitars and it was fun just sitting around and singing with them. I learned how to play " Apologize" so we were belting that all week. One of the guys Faton can sing some awesome spanish songs. It was great.

Dutch blitz is a staple in my life for sure. I am so happy that i learned it.

Anyways. camp was just a good time to get to hang with the students. We laughed A LOT and just enjoyed each others company.

ok well i am a bad writer so i let pictures do the talking.

sneak preview!

Here is the video that caused me so much grief.

hopefully keith .. the video making master... will approve of my skills.

 

enjoy!

what is He teaching me

Sometimes we are quick to blame the devil for things in our lives.

such as ... an example tonight.

All week i was at camp... working on the video that has to be finished by the morning. I left camp today half finished ( 2 songs) i knew the 3rd song would only take me a little bit to finish.

So i come home after our fun dinner out to find that my file had disappeared.

my first thought was.. its the devil

but then i thought to myself... i have had some trouble with Peace lately and feeling worried and things, so maybe this is just God revealing himself to me that he is my rock and my strength and when crazy things like this happen i dont need to stress or worry because he is in control Phillipians 4 has really been on my heart lately.

so anyways. i should be asleep because i have had no sleep this week, but i am ALMOST finished ... finished with what i lost that i had worked on all week. So in the next 30 min. i will be doing what i was supposed to be doing 2 hours ago.

camp pictures soon haha

hi ho hi ho it's off to camp we go

We are leaving today for the university camp. I am a bit worried about the turn out, but all will be shown about noon today. As of Friday there were 32 on our list, by Saturday there were only 24 on our list. We are hoping that all those students come but we will see!

This weekend hasn't been too hectic preparing for the camps. We tried to get as much as we could done before the team got here. I already have most of the copies made so i would say that my stress level is at a low level. I don't know what it is about copies... when i arrive in KS i always let everyone know that I AM THE COPY GIRL... i need to just give this stressful role to someone else HAHAHHA.

Last Thursday was Laura's birthday and also our good friend Artan's. We went out to coffee to celebrate and that was really fun. Since we had been in Macedonia all day we didn't have a chance to bake her a cake, so Katie made her a coffee cake which we enjoied on Saturday.. a little late but that is ok!

Did i mention how great it is to have my neighbor Trent here. We prayed diligently that God would allow him to join us this year and i am glad we did. Besides the unending jokes about how UGA is inferior, i love having him here.

Remember that Katie, Laura and Trent will be staying down this week and chilling in Peja. I will be up at camp. I am a little stressed about getting to see all my friends when i will only have about 3 full days left after camp stuff. I know it will all work out ok though.

Well have a wonderful week!

As promised:I am the bomb at Irish dancing.
Me and my dancing partner Asher
Laura and i enjoying some grub

Kaylee at a Céilí

Tongiht we attended a super fun PARTY for one of the girls who is leaving here after a 2 year stay. Some folks here have an Irish and Scottish back ground so we had a little shin-dig called a céilí. First we has a pot-luck then some Keith games then the dancing began.

Once i steal katie's camera i will up load them. It was really fun getting to learn some new dances. I know know how to dance in 3 ways. Then we watched Chariots of fire. Fine until it got cold and i was tired and i was sitting on a bench.

Tomorrow we will head up to the camp site to have a team meeting before camp starts on monday. I will do a quick update with pictures before we leave on monday morning.

I only have 11 days left here i want to cry

Everyone loves Kaylee's Mamma

my mamma is here so everything is great.

We are starting all our stuff for the second camp today. Katie is in the kitchen cooking up something reallllly good smelling!

I will try and post some pictures later!

I got a little haircut today. I was a bit worried since Laura got a mullet 2 years ago at a place here, but it went really well. My friend Arzana showed me an awesome place and i was very happy so.. fun!

it isn't much different... but that is ok it is nice and leess heavy

Come on down

You are the next contestant on Name those Legs:

 

A full fun and fabulous Monday.

Yesterday was a crazy day. By 10 in the evening i was so tired i didn't even want to move.

We woke up extra early to hit the Football ( Soccer) field with some friends to have a little game.

I found out that goalieing must run in my family because i was the bomb.com at being goalie. I was blocking those balls like a mad woman.

After the game we quickly headed back to the house to meet up with all the kids for our exscertion to EURO PARK.  Which is an awesome pool that has diving boards, a slide, 2 huge pools and tons of other stuff.

After the pool on our way home and for the 2nd year in a row the bus broke down. I think it is a curse! hahah

But to pass the time waiting the boys decided to braid my hair haha

After a wait of about 30 min.  we got on another bus which was PACKED full of kids and we all had to stand for a 30 min. bus ride.. but that is the adventures of this wonderful world.

When copies get you down

On saturday, as normal my task to get ready for our meeting was to get the certificates made for our award ceremony. Knowing that i normally have trouble Katie prayed that i would be calm and not stressed. I was very glad for that.

So my good friend Trimi and i set off to get these copies finished. We walked in to our normal spot which told us the machines had been down for 3 days and we needed to come back monday... too bad we needed them for that day. So we headed over  to the old shop and their printers weren't connecting to the computers. Then to two more places who could only print in black and white and on this paper. ahhh

So Trimi and I head back to the first place just to print out on normal black and white since it is the cheapest there. After printing our 50 or so copies all the sudden the color printer is open and we can use it. So we start to print and every other one coming out got stuck. At this point it is 2:20 and the meeting starts at 3 ( note that all the copes must have students names written on them, signed by Rachael and Joanna and then stamped) so the guy at the shop tells us he will create the document in a new program.. so trimi and i are sitting there twiddling our thumbs watching the clock get closer and closer to three. So the guy finally finishes and at 3:05 a few minutes after i sent trimi with the first load i walk into the place we were having the awards ceremony. As i walk in rachael says to me " did you print out Outstanding Servant Leader " ( which please note is ONE copy) Of course i had forgotten in the rush of things. So i truck it back to the printer shop where they had already started another order and i had to wait 20 min. to use the machine for one copy. So i ended up getting back to the meeting at about 3:35 or so, but it was all worth it to see the guys face when he got the award.

below are some pictures of trimi and i trying to not go insane while waiting at the copy shop.

^^^Trimi ^^^^

some pampering

After a long and not much sleep camp our team always goes out for a "surprise dinner" There really is only 1 place that is the surprise so since most of us were returning we all knew we were going to our favorite place Trofta. So we got all dressed up in our sunday best and headed off for a nice quite dinner.

Trofta, which means trout in albanian, in a cute restaurant in a town called Istog. They raise trout there and it is really the only good place here to get fish. Lucky for me i don't like fish anyway, but i know that Katie really enjoyed her first fish in a month and a half. I did get Fish soup, which surprisingly i love despite my strong dislike for fish.

 

The picture above is of Nina, Trent and Katie.

Nina is from tenn and will be leaving out tomorrow and my wonderful Neighbor from back home Trent returned again for his third summer here. And everyone knows katie hehe

NOW... after some quite time we were all needing to let out a little.. i dont know.. frustration... anger... aggression... whatever you want to call it... so we headed across the street to an old favorite... BUMPER CARS. This is probably the only place here i have ever seen bumper cars, so it is awesome. I wouldn't say these are your Six Flags bumper cars either. They are alot less safe, a good bit faster and when you press the gas it tends to spark

below are some hysterical pictures of us killing each other on bumper cars haha

 

HIGHSCHOOL CAMP 2008

Team TEAL

I AM HOME.

HOW ABOUT SOME PICTURES 1ST?

cLICK TO MAKE THEM BIGGGGER!

The K-FOR called and they said you needed to move your missiles.

copies.

oh my gooooooooodness

today i made 579 copies. Now by working at PureFUN! you would think .. 579 that is nothing... but normally i would do like 2000 of one document, today i copied 33 different documents, in English and in Albanian. KILL ME!!!

HAHAHA

but it was fun... they let me take over the computer at the shop and it kind of makes me feel powerful.

I was actually really stressed this morning, but as i was just zipping through the copies i knew it wasn't My strength that was getting me along and it was just a really great feeling.

camp is Monday camp is Monday AHHHHHHHH

Fish out of water

 

Today we met up with some of our good guy friends and went to the local pool. You pay about $2.00 for a day of fun!

We played cards, took a few dives and laid out, laura and katie left a little early for visits and such, but i hung out for a few more hours and it was fun playing card games and just laughing with the guys. They are so funny and their ability to cheat at card games just crack me up. We played a card game where you have to spell DONKEY  in albanian the first to spell it loses. I got really close to losing but luckily I was ok in the end.

Defined cheekbones.

ha.

Defined cheekbones + Velosa Raptor eyeballs = awesome.