Dinner Guests

Tuesday after school was our Slovak lesson with Maria, and it's nice that some things are starting to "click" a little.  Not that we are really capable of using much Slovak yet, but some things are making sense, and we are able to recognize patterns and phrases that are becoming familiar.  We had sandwiches for supper after a stop at the grocery store on the way home from lessons, then my student, Eva came for her lesson at 6:00.  Volleyball at school was after that, and as always, it was a fun time.  

Today at school we filled out more paperwork related to our official employment status - insurance forms, signatures by the "x", our time-clock cards were issued, etc.  Thankfully, Pat'ka and Zuzka walked us through it all and translated between us and the wonderful school secretaries.  We also found out yesterday about the electronic grade book.  Which we haven't even accessed until now.  Which we have to use to enter grades for ALL of our assignments, for ALL of our students, for ALL of Sept.-Oct.-Nov. so far!!  It will take a little time transferring from our spiral teacher grade books, but we'll get it done, and actually it will be a very efficient system for us - much like Infinite Campus - once we get caught up!  (To be honest, I think it's better than Infinite Campus, simply because after a quick tutorial by Katarina, I'm already able to use this one to set up assignments and a point system for classes - IN SLOVAK!!  This is definitely more user-friendly!)  

This was the poster at school for the "welcome/initiation" event
at school on Monday.  

This evening, we had our first Slovak dinner guests -- Janka and Katarina -- the two English colleagues who sit next to Tim in the workroom.  We were so excited to have them come over!  I made chicken-broccoli stir fry, a carrot-apple salad (new internet recipe!), and brown-and-serve baguette rolls.  They were appreciative eaters!  And they brought some delicious chocolate cake and some special Slovak dessert wine.  So sweet of them!  It was so fun sharing fellowship and conversation with "the girls" - who remind us so much of our Beth.  We hope our kids get to meet Janka, Katarina, and all our wonderful friends here!!  

Dinner at our flat with Janka and Katarina
(They had to help with the directions for baking the rolls!!)

We walked the gals to the bus stop after dinner!