Friday, February 12, 2016

December & January Update in (mid)February!

It has been SO long since we've updated on here, and if you've been faithfully checking to see how we're doing, we apologize.
Aside from our Christmas vacation travels, however, not much as been going on recently.
It's winter, & we Midwesterners are good at staying inside & keeping warm. So we've pretty much just been going to & from school, and then getting home & putting on our sweatpants & refusing to leave the flat again until the next morning. But we will do our best to provide a brief update on our lives.

**First, Christmas vacation. We were lucky enough to spend 11 of our 12 days of Christmas break in Italy. We began in Rome, and then traveled to Florence & Venice.
Our route through Italy. We flew to & from, but all our other travel was done via train.
This was a fantastic experience! About halfway through our trip, however, both of us got sick, so there were definitely days we would have preferred our beds to the traveling. We did become experts at the Italian pharmacy, though, so that was a bonus ;)

We took a bunch of pictures, and if you haven't seen them, you can see them all here:
Pictures from Rome!
Pictures from Florence!
Pictures from Venice!

**After Christmas, most of January was spent trying to get back into the swing of things at school. The semester here ends at the end of January, so we were getting all our grades together, and have just started the new semester this month.

**We have been able to go to some fun concerts and shows, one of them being an amazing show: "Best of Broadway!" here in Prague. Four American Broadway stars & a full orchestra performed songs from 20 Broadway musicals! It was such a fun evening!
Four of the musicals featured in the show.

**English Drama Club has also started up again, & we are currently rehearsing for our spring play "Game of Tiaras." It's a mix between King Lear, Game of Thrones, & Disney. So you know it'll be interesting! We've been rehearsing once a week, and our show is coming up in mid-April. We're really excited to keep working on it & perfecting it over the next eight weeks!
Here we have Snow White about to be executed while Cinderella & Ellie (Elsa from Frozen) look on. The King, his henchman Smeagol, & the executioner are also pictured.
**And you know we love film awards season! So one of the places we actually have been venturing in the cold is the movie theater! We've seen a movie every weekend for the last few weeks, which has been really fun. We're also doing movie related projects at school with our students and will be discussing the Oscars with them next week.
We only have 3 more films to go to see all the movies nominated for Best Picture this year! We're hoping to stay up (it'll start at 2am here) and watch the show live at the end of the month!

Prayer Requests:
- Health. This is definitely cold & flu season. We've both been slightly sick since Christmas, but nothing too bad. Hoping it stays that way!
- Relationships with friends, colleagues, & students here in Prague. We are making lasting friendships, and hope to continue to do so.
- Guidance in future decisions.

Praises:
- All the traveling we've been able to do & will get to do in the future. Spring & Easter breaks are coming up in March, & we're looking forward to hitting the road again!
- God's continued presence in our lives & the joy that comes when we hear His voice & seek His guidance.

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