The other day we hung out with the Lentz family (an American family that's been living here for a long time, and that Leyla and her family know pretty well) and it was so great. We drove to a Yeşilköy, an area by the sea that is really nice and has been cleaned up so you can actually do some swimming. They played a little baseball, the kids roller bladed, and then we went back to their house and had dinner. I can't tell you how great it was for Leyla and I to hang out with a family since we can't be near our own. And seriously they live only a 15-20min walk away from us. Then yesterday Camille called and asked us if we wanted to go to a prayer meeting on the Asian side, and this was also a wonderful blessing.

This week has been a pretty good week so far, and Friday we are planning on attending the young adults group at the Dutch Chapel since we work on Sunday mornings. Work-wise I have a *brand new* class that I start tonight and do Thursday nights as well. It's literally brand new as it is elementary level... I'm quite nervous about this because I pretty much don't know any Turkish, and it's going to be hard to communicate. I also have activity club (about 45 mins of chatting about a particular topic) on Thursday. Then I have class Sat morn 4hours, Sat afternoon activity club, Sat night 3hours, and Sunday morning 4 hours. We'll see how I'm feeling Sunday evening, but as of now I'm pretty optimistic about it... ;) dunno how long that will last...