Presidential Parties

Sunday night as Melanie and I were walking to Brian and Mandy's to feed Cloud, we happened upon a huge concert! The whole city was flooded all day with charter buses from all over Macedonia. There were large groups walking around carrying flags and wearing hats to represent their presidential party. When i asked some one what was going on, he said this is the new presidential choices. Ohrid was on fire that night! There was a huge rock concert! Flags flying! Everyone celebrating! I even heard some fireworks going off around midnight.

Goodbyes

This Sunday was our last day with the Zaevs. They have been such a blessing to all of us! They were here for a month from America visiting Zoran's family. Now they are back in West Virginia. They have been working with the Macedonians here who speak both Enlgish and Macedonian fluently, to translate more materials for evangelism. They will be having a Macedonian family live with them for 6 months. They plan to come back for another visit next year :) It's hard to say goodbye, specially to people that you see every day and share the same heart with. But please pray for Angela and Zoran as they continue their ministry in the states. Of course this isn't a picture of everyone from the church because Brian and Mandy are still in Greece with Brian's parents. We hope they have a great time and a safe return!

We all went over to the Dudanovski's for an Imen Den. Pavlina and Marija (our Macedonian teacher and her sister) showed us how to correctly break open the eggs. One of their traditions is to dye eggs red and then at midnight before Easter, the crack them together. If yours doesn't break, you're supposed to have good luck all year. All of ours cracked. Good thing we don't believe in luck!

The finished products! Just a note: it's good to rinse and dry the eggs before putting them in the dye ;)

Velik Den. That's Easter for all of those who don't speak Macedonian :)

Me and Melanie dyed Easter eggs. My mom sent me an egg-dying kit :)

Snow Day!

This was back in March but we had one day of thick snow! It was really beautiful!
And this is my friend, Ana, from Austrailia. I met her randomly one morning when I was going for a run. We ended up having coffee a few times during her visit and we plan to get together when she comes back this summer

The rock show! My cousin Ashley (the one with the yellow mohawk) plays back up guitar and sometimes sings

Janine's dad made me try raw, salted herring. It's a favorite among some Dutch people. I thought it was kinda like sushi but not as good