Po to da Land

What up Everybody!

So many things have been happening in Zako lately! It's pretty much the most exciting place in the world! Lol... jk, but really.... things have been picking up with all the new interns coming in, staff moving to camp, and mission groups coming in. Kids will be coming in Sunday afternoon for Fish Art camp, where the kids will have the opportunity to learn more about media, photography, music, and dancing. I'm not exactly sure what I'll be helping with next week, but all of us interns will be assigned jobs for the week at the staff training meeting on Saturday. Also on Saturday, there is an AWESOME group coming in from CAL (Christian Academy of Louisville) to help out for a couple weeks. I don't really know that many people in the group, but Blake Shively, who led my missions trip to kenya, is leading the CAL group, so it will be nice to see a friend from home.

Let's go to some general updates:

• Health status = Fabulous! Thank you for the prayers!
• Cleaning status= Been doing a lot of it
• Room status= 3 girl interns, 1 room, 1 bathroom, + a lot of luggage = crazy! (Fortunately we all like each other, at least right now we do... lol... I let you know next week if the status is still the same.)
  
• Polish status= becoming more Polish everyday! Most importantly I know how to ask for certain foods, the bathroom, and pay for things. Oh! and I already know how to do a Polish smile. Thank you Chicantek side of the family :).
• Relationship status= I haven't been married off yet. But they've tried to set me up multiple times.
  

Other things are that are going on:

• We will be attending church in Warsaw to celebrate the 90 years the Christian church has had an influence in Poland.

• Ummm... that's the only other thing I can think of thats going on. lol... more later.

Interesting facts about Poland:

• They throw the veil instead of flowers at weddings.
• Its considered rude to say "hi" to random people on the street.
• When you walk into a store its polite to say "good afternoon".
  
• Aggressive behavior is absolutely necessary when standing in line- Line jumping is acceptable and no that doesn't mean people jump over lines painted on the ground.
• Hair driers will blow up if you have the wrong type of convertor. (Yes, that's spoken from experience. If you smell smoke and seeing a glowing red/orange light coming from your hair drier I would suggest turning it off. Just a suggestion ;)
• I'm not for sure about this one, but I would say "Girl Power" is not as popular in Poland as it is in the states. lol... Why is would say this is because... one last quick story... Molly and I came to the directors wife to see if we could go kayaking up the river. Simple enough, right? Yeeeeaaaah... the were both like, "Are you going by yourselves? No, boy is going with you?" Molly and I looked at each other and looked back at them, "No." Lol... neither one of them seemed too excited about that idea, but it ended up working out ok. I took my cellphone with us and a boy intern went with us. :)

Ok, that's all I've got for now. I'll be uploading some pictures soon, so check out fb. Oh, and please ignore the sp/gr errors and missing words lol... I'm to tired to reread and correct. Much love to everyone! Lots of hugs!

Asia