As I mentioned in the title, we were on the go all day today. After bathing and washing hair in cold water - no hot water for the 3rd day- we headed out to Lithuanian class. It was drizzly off and on all day after raining hard most of the night, but not really too cold. I think the teacher is dumbing down the class, or at least not going as indepth into grammar as before. For the last two sessions she has emphasized words and signs and tasks of daily living sorts of words and foods. I now know sale, discount, cheap and other words essential to my life. Today we went over a receipt from the Iki and for homework, we need to write out the ingredients for a recipe from home in Lithuanian. We also went over all sorts of food names, but only a few vegetables - beets, carrots, cabbage, potatoes, cucumbers- were the main ones. I keep asking everyone if there will be different vegetables in the markets in summer, but everyone just seems puzzled by the question. I love all those veggies, but where are the leafy greens, the peas, the green beans, that I would expect they would grow in summer. They do grow lots of berries. I hope they will come in before we leave.
Then we walked to the train station to get tickets for our trip on Sunday. We had just walked out of the station when Audrone called to say she would pick us up to go to buy the tickets. Bless her heart, she had sent us everything we needed to know, but she was worried, I guess. I had translated and written out the information in Lithuanian and the lady at the station did a great job of interpreting what we were trying to do. Maybe those lessons are paying off to some extent. Of course I made use of every handout Lillia has given us, a dictionary and a phrase book to translate 5 sentences.
After that we walked to the Travel Agency to firm up the trip to Rhodes the end of May. I think it will be great to go there again, and Del said he was as excited as he had been in a long time. It is amazing how inexpensive the flight and hotel are. It's one of those charter deals the agency is sponsoring.
By then it was 4 and we hadn't eaten lunch, so we went into a small cafeteria to have "linner." Afterward, I walked over to the Humana where I bought a raincoat, two silk scarves, one from a fancy shop in Thailand, and two balls of fancy yarn. All for half price. Yea, me.When we get ready to go home, I'll either take stuff back there or see if I can find anyone big enough at the University to wear the coats, especially.
We finished the day by visiting a couple of book stores and then home for coffee. We had walked somewhere in the neighborhood of 2 1/2 - 3 miles over the course of the afternoon and were starting to damp and cold.
Have a wonderful week end. Feel free to skip over tomorrow's blog, unless you want to hear ramblings. The hot water is back, so it's catch up time around here. Can't wait to hear that, huh?
I forgot to ask if they do April Fool's Day over here, and I have no idea why we do it. Guess that means a trip to Google or Swag Bucks.
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