On Christmas day, we spent our afternoon visiting older widows. Every one of them was incredibly happy to have visitors and to spend some time visiting, singing, and eating. Some made us eat tasty desserts until we could not fit anything in our bellies, and some insisted we drank homemade wine with them. Some were … Continue reading Christmas Visiting
So far, one year has contained a lot. A lot of learning, teaching, eating, sleeping and growing. Not everything is different, but much of are lives have changed in the past year. Our family has grown a tad–we just one little puppy. We now have a house, car, and even a routine-ish. We both teach … Continue reading 1 year adventuring
Oh my, when I planned my lesson this week there were some stickies on the table. and I though to my self, well that could make a fun game for learning body parts. So we played our best game yet. Stick the label to the correct part of your friend! Continue reading Too Much Fun
The first freeze, and first snow came early this year. We are so thankful for heating and our home to keep us warm as adventure in this beautiful country. You will have to look close to see the itsy-bitsy flakes falling Continue reading Our First Snow
So, for those of you who don’t know, we have been paying our neighbors to use their (hundred year old house’s) electricity via a daisy-chained extension chords. We have lived in Romania almost one year, and we just received ‘real’ electricity! That means we can use our cook-top, oven and dryer. And bonus: Richard made … Continue reading Electricity
Happy Birthday Kiddos! Every month we do a small shindig with the manna kids, and I was excited to join for sure. Enjoy the pictures! Continue reading October Babies
We have had a great opportunity to teach and work with 20+ little ones in the Manna after-0school program. Today we were learning english, but Richard and Ben also teach computers and we have a Small english Chorus as well. During this program, they have many other teachers who love on them, feed them, and … Continue reading English Class
We leveled up today! We had four PI’s setup with monitors. The kids split up into small groups and tag-teamed the lessons. Some kids are still learning to read, so it takes them a little while to understand the goal of each lesson. We have one student, Kálmán, who independently coded his way through most … Continue reading Day 2 of Basic Programming and Robotics
We had an exciting first day of our new programming class. We spent the first 45 minutes just getting our equipment setup and working. The boys had fun learning about these tiny computers (Raspberry PI’s). They learned how to download and copy over the operating system to micro SD cards for use in the PI’s. … Continue reading Day 1 of Basic Programming and Robotics
Today, I went on a trail ride with two awesome friends. There are moments when life in a new place is stressful or lonesome, but today is not one of those. Thank you Csilla and Scottie for being great friends. Continue reading Blessings
van der Dys Family in Transylvania 