Today is my 15 month mark. It's been a great 15. Here's some highlights from fall.
October has been a good month. First...it's been super warm here. In the 70's to be exact. But fall/winter is here because in the evenings when the sun is down, it's definitely cooler. Now I can wear cute jackets and boots! Also, my European travel buddy, Christina, traveled to Spain with her friend, Julia. They flew into Madrid, so for the afternoon/evening I went into Madrid to spend some good time with them. Christina also got to meet my cute Romanian friend, Marin. Good thing he came with...we had a photog for the pics of us 3 girls. You can see more on FB.
For Spains national holiday on Oct. 12, we went to Cuenca! Tiffany, Moises, Marin and I. Cuenca is a beautiful city, that is built on cliffs. It was a gorgeous fall day with summer temps! We hiked on the path to this bridge that had a great view of the hanging houses!
A couple of Sundays ago, we went to a park so I could take new missionary card pics for Denise and Kerry, pictured below. I LOVE this pic of them! My Fav!!
Last night the missionary kid school here had a Fall Festival. I rented a table for the "craft fair" part of it to sell my jewelry--which I spent the last straight 2 weeks making during my jewelry making marathons! So, this pic if you can tell, is of some guys jumping over this massive bonfire! Locos! I think one guy was Spanish and the others are some guy mk's.
One of the 'games' was to pay 1 euro to get 5 hits with a sledge hammer to these beaters. I passed, but kinda wished I would've done it. Good way to get aggression out.
I was happy near the beginning of the festival just to watch the sunset. So magnificent!! Colors were much better in real life. My camera phone doesn't do justice.
Here I am at my table. I guess my eyes are closed...silly me. So, I had lots to sell and had decent expectations since I didn't think they were priced okay. But, I left dissappointed because I only came out 7 euros ahead. sadness. Lots of labor. Not much success. But now I have pre made gifts! I still was hoping to make at least 50 euros. ah well.
At the beginning of October I went to a Romanian Young Adult conference with Marin and our friends from the Romanian church here. On the way home Marin, Dani and Lavinia stopped to pick some grapes from the fields. I guess it's okay because they were just left overs from the season. They were tasty!
Below is the barbacoa we had the last night of the conference. The people we stayed with (about 15-20 of us in a house) invited all their friends over. We had MANY people there. It was fun.
And this guy below is Brent, my new housemate for Oct and Nov. He's here for 2 months as an intern, checking out IMM and seeing if media missions if for him. He's like my little brother, he's 22. He makes me laugh just like my silly bros do. I don't have a pic of Clarisse yet, my French African housemate. I'll post one when I get one. But, us 3 have fun living in the mansion. We each have taken turns to cook for each other.
