The past two months

I know, I know, way too long in-between blogs.

So here is a summary of what we have been up to.

John, Jason, our site-mate, and I wrote a grant to help start baseball in your community. It has been approved and we are now waiting for funding. We had a meeting with Razgrad’s mayor, 2 vice mayors, and the director of regional sports in March. It was a great meeting. We explained the purpose of our project, how many kids are interested in baseball, and asked for the city’s support with the field. They all agreed to look for a suitable location and meet again next week. Our next meeting was only with the mayor. We all had coffee and he told us how great it was for us to start the baseball project and that the city was committed to help us any way they can. They had found a suitable site. It is an area were there is currently a soccer field and a large unused area next to it. The baseball field will be built next to the soccer field. The land is owned by a local company so prior to our second meeting the mayor had talked to the company’s board of directors and they had agreed to help in this project. Currently, we are waiting on the funding. After we receive the funding, the city will start work on building the field. Hopefully you can tell how excited we are. We have high hopes for this project. Thank you to all who have donated equipment. With 170 kids interested from only two schools, we will use everything donated.

The first week in April, my sister, Sara, and step dad, Richard, came to visit. We had a great time while they were here. Hopefully, they enjoyed themselves too. They brought us two huge bags of donated baseball equipment and a bag of goodies for us.

Last week we bought bikes. John was so excited. He feels that it is his freedom. We are not allowed to drive anything with a motor and John misses driving. I think his new bike has taken the edge off his desire to drive. He rides his bike to school everyday. I don’t, because my school is straight up a hill. Last weekend we decided to go on a bike ride to a local recreation area. We didn’t think is was that far away. We rode our bikes for 45 minutes and were still not there. Our legs were killing so we turned around. It took us only 15 minutes to get home. After we arrived home, we realized that the first half of the trip was all up hill. No wonder we were so tired.

Tonight we are getting on a bus to Istanbul. Easter is this Sunday, orthodox calendar, so we have a long weekend, no school until Wednesday. We will be in Istanbul on Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and will leave on Tuesday night. I am really excited. Somehow I am getting to Asia. I can’t be that close and not go. I guess the city is in Europe and Asia so it should not be that hard. I will post pictures and stories when we get back.

I hope all of you had a good Easter last Sunday and have a great weekend.