This week has just flown by! I've had a lot of fun ... and, oh! so many things!
First: an update on the art show. It was amazing. We got some very yummy foods from the bake sale for people back home (therefore I cannot reveal what they are :-)!
My dress ended up being hung off of a stairwell. It was hanging between some paintings and some quilts - sort of the 'transition piece', if you will, between the 'arts' and the 'crafts', I suppose. :-) Mark and I had a blast - there was so much to do and see. We ushered for the slide show, which Mark participated in (so you can tell Sydney she's been on the big screen now!), which had a video presentation afterward. For the video, I was Trinity (from the movie, "The Matrix") - I had gotten 'in the system' and was having a problem with the computer... the whole video was a compilation of different things we do here: security, gardens, cleaning & maintenance, office workers... I was the 'office' skit - calling our helpdesk :-). My new nickname is apparently Trinity... it seems like everyone who sees me now makes a reference to my 'movie appearance'.
They also had an Arts Cafe, with live performances, a fashion show (all clothes were from our 'clothing exchange')... all in all, loads of exhausting fun.
On another, but still very exciting, note, my family has recently been reunited with my mother's French family. I've been doing a lot of corresponding with them, too, seeing as how I speak French. This is so exciting for me. I, at least partially, studied French to understand my French grandmother more (since she passed away when I was about 1 year old), and that side of my family. I had had a few random contacts in past years, but nothing consistent. What a blessing email is!!! This is thrilling for me, and allows me to practice my French. Understanding French and coming up with it on your own are two rather different things, so it's important for me to practice my French despite the fact that I am translating it on a daily basis.
It's starting to warm up here - yesterday it got up to 70 degrees Fahrenheit! In February!
By the way, folks, pictures will probably be suspended for a while - our camera just died. It was limping ever since it was dropped back in December, and last week it just gave up. Sorry!
