Free Heat

I think this is great. We live on the third floor of our apartment building. As I am sure you are aware, heat rises! As a result, we have turned on our heat maybe one time in the past two and a half weeks! It really is incredible how warm it is...especially on a day like today. It is pretty snowy and cold out and we are toasty and warm in our little home, without having to even turn on any heat!

Another thought, I think I like not having a clothes dryer! This really surprised me because I was kind of dreading not having one. Even though the clothes rack takes up space in the living room and doesn't match the decor, and even though my jeans feel like sandpaper when I put them on, it actually feels great to hang dry all our clothes!

Teaching is WAY more exhausting than I imagined it would be! At the end of the four hours, I feel like my head is just swimming! I didn't know that teaching something that you use everyday without even thinking about it would take so much thought! I do enjoy my classes though. There are a few students that I feel a deeper connection with, and I hope that I will be able to connect with them outside of the classroom and begin a friendship with. Just as an interesting fyi, two of my students (they are married to each other) are bee-keepers! I don't think I have personally met a bee keeper before so I thought that was neat. They have about 40 bee colonies and they get stung all the time.

I continue to be amazed at how Jody is picking up Czech. He seems to understand and speak way more each day.

Our trip to Austria went well. It was a beautiful drive and a nice time to spend together! It wasn't a sight seeing trip though: we went to the embassy, filed our paperwork, and came home. Still, it was fun to just have been to the country now. We are praying that our long term visa paperwork will be approved by the end of April when our short term visas expire.

Only four more days until the hockey team from Canada arrives!