Here’s Lyka!

Last week was a fairly low key week. The only real excitement was when our two new site mates, Jane and Joyce, came down to Lankaran for their first visit. We prepared a huge Mexican feast with chicken quesadillas, queso and margaritas! We all ate way too much, but enjoyed every freaking bite. Jane will be teaching English at School #10 and Joyce is a Youth Development Volunteer. It will certainly be fun to have a couple of new Americans to hang out with. Tom, Tim and I all gave presentations on volunteerism, time management and how to give a good presentation to about 20 high school and college kids Friday morning, so that was fun. This week I will be in full preparation mode for our boys leadership camp. It starts on September 3^rd, so everything needs to get all taken care of this week. We will have about 36 high school guys, plus some return guys from last year as councilors, azeri counterparts and several guest speakers all joining us for the week. I’m getting excited-it should be a really fun time.

Since I don’t have too much to talk about I figured I would just give you some pictures of Lyka. We are getting along a lot better now, so she is becoming less of a pain in my butt. She stays outside pretty much all day, when we walk she always go straight for the shaded areas to walk in, she LOVES bread, and has waaaay too much energy….

Oh yea, there is also a new picture from Budapest that Rikki George sent me-it sums up out time there pretty well I think. The two really blond people are our irish friends we hung out with a ton.