ruffles

Amy and I talked over Skype this morning with Joanie, our Czech host. It was very encouraging to get answers to some of the questions our team's had over the past month and a half. Looks like we'll be spending most of our days in english & gym classes between elementary school through high school & even some adult learning oportunities as well. In the evenings it sounds like we'll be inviting the school kids to hang out with us at local pubs and our residence. We'll also be spending time working with gypsy communities (Roma) and childrens' homes. Evidently our first weekend in the country we'll be helping host a soccer tournament with some of the younger kids in the area. Overall, the excitement level was raised more than I thought there was room for, to be quite honest. I can't wait to share the news with our team on Monday.

This afternoon & evening Amy and I ran down to Indy to see a movie. Afterwards we were walking through an outdoor mall and she asked if we could look for a present for one of her friends who's birthday is this week. We walked in to Ann Taylor Loft and Amy sort of walked around looking for stuff. As I stood in the back of the store for a few minutes I started to look around the store. Angela liked Ann Taylor alot because they have a good petite section with clothes that are her size. I identified this section and spotted several tops that she would have looked at. Had we walked into this store together this is what would have happened. We would have walked to the petite section and begun perusing. She would have picked up this yellow short sleeved top with little ruffles down the middle and looked at it. I would have walked over and said that looked very nice and that she should get it. She would have agreed but then put it back on the rack and walked away. I would have waited until after she'd finished looking around and then picked it back up and encouraged her to get it. She would dismiss it as too expensive, to which, I would have said I wanted to buy it for her. Once I would have convinced her that I really wanted to get it to help build her work clothes wardrobe, then she would walk back to the rack, look at the shirt and then put it down and looked at several other ones behind it that looked similar, but with different colors and no ruffles. She would have picked up a brown one that was a few behind the yellow one and ask what I thought of that one. I would have told her that i thought that one was nice too. Ultimately she would decide to let me purchase the brown one for her even though she likes little ruffles alot, because she doesn't like the way that yellow looks on her (she says her skin is too pale) and she thinks brown is much safer for work.

I wanted to sit down on a stool in the shoe section and cry for knowing how specifically that would have played out.

Thank you Andrew and Amy for getting me through this weekend. Everyone comes back from Fall Break tomorrow night, and it wont be a moment too soon, I'm sure.