Time goes too fast for change to go so slow

We have both survived our first terms. YEA!!!!! One down and three to go. Looking back on the past 5 months, I am not sure what all I have accomplished. Everyone says change is slow; I sometimes have to keep telling myself that. There are times when I feel that no one wants to change or cares. I have found that you have to say what you think or want at least 5 times just to be heard and then another 5 to get them to do anything. Cultural differences . . . what can you do. Starting a new term means changing schedules. John’s classes have switched from the mornings to the afternoons and my classes have changed times. I now start at 7:30am three days a week. During the winter we moved our mattresses from the bedroom to the living room because of heating issues. Due to this and my schedule change, I have to be really quiet when I get ready to leave for school. Ahh, life.

Two weeks ago when I started writing this post I felt discouraged. I was not sure what we were doing here. I think it was because I could not pin point one thing and say, ‘look I did that.’ I like to see a finished product, create things. I decided it was time to get in gear and not let everything slip by. Since then we have started a project in America called “Bats and Books for Bulgaria”, started working on a project with my school to build an art gallery, and we are talking with the municipality about writing a grant to build a baseball field. Five days ago, I began knitting to see more immediate results from what I am doing with my time. I am trying to make a scarf. The first two times I started, I made it way to wide, about 18inches . . . that’s a blanket! I was just so excited to be knitting! Finally on the third try, I got it right. I am about half way done. I like knitting. It gives me something productive to do with all my free time and I can see instant the results and improvements.

We have also uploaded some new pictures on to flickr. There is a link to the right to see the pics.