Well, it has been awhile. Like almost a month since our last post. We have since returned from Prague. Our time there was very good. We made some good friends, learned a lot and got to explore a beautiful city. But we are glad to be back in our beautiful city and life has accelerated since we returned. As soon as we got back there was a volunteer team here from North Greenville University. They were a group of about 14 college students here to teach English. It was a really good experience for them and they were able to share with a lot of people.
Life has pretty much normalized in the two weeks we have been back from Prague. The kids are doing well in school (Bryan managed to finish all of his homework in Prague while we were gone. His teacher was very impressed. He was actually a little ahead of the class when he got back). Lily and Alexander are still doing well in Ovoda (kindergarten). All three of them are pretty fluent in Hungarian now. We went to dinner at our old teacher's new house (she is not old...she used to teach us) and she was amazed at how well the kids spoke. When she met them they did not speak a word of Hungarian.
Trey is leaving for a conference in central Hungary and will be gone all weekend. I am sure he will bring pictures from it. He is going to a place which is near a horse ranch. Too bad he left his boots in Texas (like he ever had any).
Thanks for being patient with the blog. We will be much more diligent with it now. Being gone from home for three weeks really threw us off our schedule but we are back now.
The pictures are of Trey and the kids in front of the Jan Hus (John Huss) statue. Jan was martyred for trying to translate the Bible into Czech. The other picture is inside his church where he preached. The third picture is of Bryan in front of the famous clock. The last one is of the TV tower. Yes, those are babies climbing up the tower. Strange, but we really liked seeing them everyday. What does that say about us?
We have other pictures and stories to post tomorrow so stay tuned.
Love to all,
the Shaws
