teaching and raining

(sorry in advance for the overload of pictures on this post!!)

also, sorry everyone i havent blogged the past few days because i have been super lazy and just not wanting to write much but here i am, on a friday night at 11:35 pm with nada to do! (minus skyping my bffffff :) anyways..... so we started teaching monday.. so fun, hard, tiring, frustrating, time intensive, most AWESOME thing ever. it really has been everything all in one for me. i havent ever taught anything before. its more strenuous emotionally/mentally then i had thought it was going to be. it has went pretty well though! the kids are so adorable and fun to be with. i already think it would be so hard to pick up and leave back to america and its only been 1 week.... imagine how i will feel in 17 weeks. i cant believe it!  anyways here are some pictures i got the past week.... more to come throughout my stay here i am sure!

these kids are the ages of 5-6. so much fun! from left to right is Ignas, Nikol, Ema, Daniel, and Stefania 

I love Ignas! he kills me!

this is Artur and Z. i have a special place in my heart for Artur, can you blame me though? look at his mischevious smile! Z on the other hand.... is a handful! i love him so much and he says the funniest things. you know when little kids talk and its like they are an old man with the propper-ness (not a word i know, but you get the jist of it) but the fanciness of the way they try and speak? yeah thats him. hes pretty fluent in english too so we have funny conversations.....

this is me and Dora, shes 8

ohhh Danielas. so hilarious. he doesnt speak much really but he is such a spaz and makes me laugh

oh and Sylvia..... shes INSANE. so crazy, off the wall, never listens but she makes us all laugh. shes about 3-4 i think and shes pretty good with her english as well. as you can see... she took a chunk out of her bangs. (dont worry it didnt happen at school that we know of........)

these are pictures that jen (head teacher) got of my class today! these kids that i was teaching are ages 8-9

ignas, nikol and stefania again!

we walk everywhere basically, but thats only because where we eat our food is next door to our apartments (on the same block) and the school we teach at is across the street. its really nice to get fresh air and walk everywhere. but.... since the weather is so temperamental here, its hard to say what will be going on with the weather throughout the day. its the rain season now in lithuania, so is rains everyday and HARD. but then sometimes/most of the time it gets really sunny and hot, and then cloudy and then sunny..... good grief. but luckily i have a nice slicker and rainboots with me while i am here. these pictures are from our walk to school on wednesday. it was POURING!!!!

i forgot my umbrella at home (durrr.....) and holly was nice enough to share hers with me!

well, thats about all for now on this wonderful friday night. tomorrow we are leaving early in the morning to a wonderful lake adventure and i am sure there will be multiple things to write about and pictures to explain. enjoy your friday/saturday everybody :)