So if you read the previous blogs you might have noticed that Gynnalyn and Aaron thought it would be fun to write about how I thought that honey could be homemade. The night that we were at dinner when I said that, maybe it came out sounding like I was under the impression that humans produced honey in factories, but I clearly tried to explain to let them know that people own their own hives and "make their own honey." So they went on and on laughing for a good day thinking that I was the slow one until Gynnalyn's reader came back the next day and told her that the honey in fact was homemade. LOL!!! I think I was very respectful and graceful in not rubbing it in their faces even though I really wanted to. So we have almost successfully finished Gynnalyn's "HOMEMADE HONEY!"
We finally finished our first week of LST and today we had our first LST party. The theme was Texas. The day started out a bit hectic with everyone having individual minds that were thinking in a million different directions. Everyone was a little stressed out, and I am sure wondering how this party would actually turn out. Once all of us put our efforts together and tried to chill out and stop stressing so much, and guest started arriving we finally jumped in and each of our individual gifts came rising up. The party was a great success and from reactions that we got numerous times as people left, they really enjoyed the time we spent together during this party. Everything from the unique cuisines of Texas (beans and cornbread) to the Western style games (laso the boots, count the boots, etc) to the line dancing was a big hit!
We are very exhausted from the week. Tomorrow is the longest day of church service ever. Starts at 11am and runs until almost 7 at night so we will go to the main service for the two hours and do other things around the city during the smaller Bible classes that are conducted completely in Russian. We are looking forward to another successful week of LST to come and another great party next Saturday. The theme for this next party will Pirates of the Carribean so that should be a lot of fun, as soon as we figure out how to execute all of this in Moscow. Please continue to pray for us and our readers!!!!
~D. Jay~
2 comments:
We're delighted to hear that you are having an interesting and adventurous time. Moscow is a neat city. The Russians are a great people.
We'll be following in your footsteps in October. Please keep up us up to date on your readers. If you come across any that we read with, please tell them hello for us.
We hope to see you went you get back to DFW. We'd like to pick your brains so that we can follow up.
May the Lord bless you and keep you.
Skip and Glenna
Haha it is so funny to read all these things about honey. Sometimes people say it's homemade and I guess it doesnt necessarily mean they produced it by themselves from the scratch. Like I may say this is homemade kvas which means I got to a shop got some special stuff (zakvaska) to cook kvas from. Once I have got zakvaska I put it into a bowl or something fill it up with water and some bread pieces and let it brew for a day or so. We russians call it homemade coz you see a lot of effort in here to get it done :) Same thing with honey some people say it's homemade which means they did a lot of job to collect all that honey. I am not really guru at honey. But I guess there might be some artificial ways to produce honey. I could be wrong though.
I am not sure if this comment explains anything :)
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