Thank You, Thomas.

Yo! I've been in Lithuania for 2 weeks already! It is flying. Like, the week will start and we'll head to school on Monday, but then I swear the next day is already Friday. That's good AND bad! :) haha. Good because that means the weekend comes faster, which we LOVE. You don't understand. Teaching children a completely new language is so exhausting. And talking and teaching straight for 4 hours is tough business. I respect teachers a lot more now. Especially having class sizes of 20-30. I can hardly handle 6! Today in class I had 10 kids and I wanted to cry. Nobody would listen to me and no one would pay attention and answer the questions and it was just really rough. So yes, the time flying is good for those reasons. But also bad because it means that my time in Lithuania is going to end sooner and sooner. Our 10 day vacation off of teaching is in october. And my head teacher says that after that vacation, the rest of the time here is like lightning fast. I know I will miss it a lot. I really do already look forward to coming home just to see my friends and family, and to be able to eat food and not have to study it first. But Lithuania is just so refreshing. It's so CLEAN here! The roads hardly have trash on them, everything is pristine. And I will definitely miss my green, flowery walk to school. That is my favorite. I'll miss all of the beautiful, lush ponds near by. The houses with colored roofs. The rollings hills, Cathedral square, the pizza!! Goodness, who would have known that Lithuania had the best pizza I've ever tasted? We've eaten pizza at 3 different places, and they have all been so delectable. They really know their stuff. Crispy and thin crust, and such fresh toppings. I will also miss the magija bars. They are these little chocolate covered cheesecake bars and boy, they are so creamy and lovely. If there's one thing I could bring home from Lith, it'd be those. But they have to be refrigerated :( I wish you could all taste one. You're life would change.

Just look at it. Your mouth is watering, isn't it? So yes, the pizza is the best ever.
I had a really neat weekend! On Friday we were all so stoked to get out of school so we could get to Old Town. Vilnius was having a huge music festival and we definitely didn't want to miss it. We get there and there are little shops and booths set up along the main street in Old Town, and there is a huge stage in the middle of it all! This really good rock band from Latvia was playing! We hung there and danced a little bit, then made our way to find food. That's when we found Cili Pizza and had dinner there. I got a whole 10" pizza and a large coke for only $9.59 US dollars. With that good of quality and ingredients, a meal like that in America would be like $15. So the currency here is definitely another thing I'll miss. The other day I bought a tub of raspberries, a yogurt smoothie, a sprite, a huge croissant, & a donut and it came to 10 Litas which is about $4 US dollars. Crazy huh? Such a good deal :) So I definitely think my money will last me the whole time while I'm here.
Anyway, we finished the delicious pizzas and headed down to Cathedral square for another concert. We just caught the end of it, and headed back to the bus. We waited and waited for our bus. The sign said it would arrive at 11:43. 11:43 comes and goes and no bus. So we just keep waiting, maybe it's late. Then a random guy comes up behind us and asks us where we are from. We tell him we're from America. He starts speaking to us in pretty good english and asks us to play a question game with him or something? So it's a pretty goofy game. And then we ask him if he knows when the bus will come. And he says "uhhh, the bus is long gone. The last bus was a half hour ago!" So we were pretty mad, we must have read the sign wrong. So he tells us he will help us find a taxi. We follow him like all the way back into Old Town, we're all so exhausted. And he tells us we might have to spend about 25 Litas each for the taxi. Which is like $10 EACH!! He said that if they know you are American, they will over charge you. So he finds a taxi, and talks to them and asks them how much he will charge for us American girls. And thankfully he did, because he helped talk down the price to only 5 Litas each. So that was SO SO nice!! We were so thankful for Thomas helping us out. That was our first encounter with a kind person off the streets. Truthfully, people are not friendly here. Our host family and our coordinator are the only friendly people we know. So that was such a miracle for us! Especially for him to just randomly come up behind us and ask us where we're from! We would have had to walk about 8 miles home if he didn't :) Thanks Thomas!!

 Myself, Hayden & Kelby wandering Old Town!

So we were very excited about the concert! And that it was in english!