Snow Snow Snow Snow

Thank you Lithuanian pagan god of snow! He finally saw my snow dances, laughed and took pity on me. There is snow on the ground! My balcony is covered in beautiful, white, perfectly powdery snow...and it was baby blizzarding all night so everything was perfectly smooth until morning when it was trudged and driven through. No worries though, as more is on the way! I even have a fire going in my fireplace because it's pretty cold out now, a drastic 15 degree drop (C) from last week.

My dinner party was a hit! Every morsel of food was gone, and someone even did the dishes for me! Preparing everything was so fun, and I had some help from those who came early. I combined two recipes for chili and it turned out great, and the lasagna was perfect as always. Custard pie is a snap to make, so I'm sure I'll be making it more often for 'events' and I would like to plan these dinner things more often. It went so smoothly - those who wanted to play poker could do so in one room, while those who wanted to watch a movie could do so in another and those who wanted to do neither could do so in the other other room. Photos will be posted soon!

In other news...I 'taught' my first class today to a man who wants to improve his English. We'll meet every week day for an hour after work at LCC, and I found a great resource online with worksheets and lesson plans, so I will be more prepared tomorrow. I am also working on my own Lithuanian, but I've hit exceptions to grammar rules, plurals and all kinds of fun stuff...so it's not flying by as I had hoped. I will prevail though! Viva Lietuva!

In other other news...I worked out for the first time yesterday in...several years maybe? I almost died on the eliptical machine, but I pushed myself to hit 15 minutes so I wouldn't be such a wuss to my work out buddy who was just plugging away without a care in the world for another 15 minutes after I crawled off the machine. I'm supposed to go again tomorrow, so my days are just getting more packed and packed with English tutoring and shaping up! Here's to slim, buff Chelsea who teaches English in her spare time while volunteering at a Christian university in Lithuania!