Day 3: Tying up loose ends (not sure of what we are tying though)

As we were walking our way to dinner, Kaylee reminded me that we hadn't posted today. I of course said we had but did not remember what we had... That meant we hadn't...

Well here we go...We got our booklets printed, had lunch, got some supplies for camp. And tied up all of the loose ends. Once we were ready for tomorrow we went to a really cool restaurant with true Albanian food with a Spanish style motif...ok we are still currently still working on things but needed to grab a bite to eat. Leader meeting for camp in the morning ad then traveling to Peja for our team leaders to get to know one another before the camp... It will be a great day and great bonding time. I do not know if we will have Internet then so this may be the last post until we get back from camp on Friday (we know we won't have it on the mountain. So I will say tungi (good bye) until we return from the mountain.

From the heart of
Tungi
Keith

Day 2: ending

After a long day of camp stuff we got to meet a few friends from past years...even though I had never meet them before in my life the glow and happiness that it brought to both Kaylee and Jan made me feel like I has known them forever. We ended out night with my first macchiato and Jan and Kaylee's 1st bombay with schume schume sugars for them (very much sugar) since we've been here...this place is great...

From the heart of

Keith

Day 2: The bee sting

As we were unloading our bags on the busy streets of Pristina, Keith said it felt like something bit him. We looked up and the flowering vine above us was filled with about 100 bees. Here is Keith's first day battle wound!

Day 2: Camp Cramming

We have made it to Kosovo...We had a nice Dinner last night, Spent some time with the locals at the 4th of July Celebration for America, Saw the Statue of Bill Clinton, Statue of mother Teresa (She's from Albania), and George Kastriot Skanderbeg (Albanian Hero)...More info. on him in later posts...All of this like Kaylee had said on maybe two hours of sleep...I began to feel it as it was getting closer to 10 p.m. here and 4 p.m. (American) day two...This is a beautiful country, people, and nice group. We will be finishing up a few things for camp that we were not able to do in the states and needed to finish once we got here.

Funny Story #1:
-As our day of traveling came to a close and made it to the Kosovo International Airport we were greeted with all of our bags...this was a total of two bags and a carry on for each of us (9 Bags total). We placed them on two carts and began to roll out of the airport we were greeted with a Kosovo Airport Police Officer...Well I was greeted as Kaylee and Jan had progressed past the officer. He asked (To later find out what he said) "Do you need to check in any of your bags through customs". I would not say I am Fluent in Albanian but I do know certain words (Around 4-5 Key words). As he asked me his questions (In Albanian), He knew I wasn't understanding his words. I stood there in amazement; Not thinking I would be arrested or anything but that we would have to go through all of those many bags and such one by one...Luckily Kaylee had turned around and started speaking with the officer. He asked if I spoke the language, Kaylee responded with "Very Little". So he asked her if we needed to go through customs and she said No. We all three laughed and we progressed out of the airport doors. It is amazing with the words I do know, He only used a few of them. I do not believe in Language barriers because we all speak body language or "charades" if you want to be more specific. 

Languages that you may not use everyday or know a lot of does not make it difficult it just makes you be out of your comfort zone of just being able to hear and finally speak. It makes you Watch, Hear, Listen, Think, Pray, Watch again, Pray, and then speak. Maybe we can all learn from that in more then one way in our lives. 

These posts were meant to be short but sometimes my hands type things on my mind. Also as I was told early in life; There is always a lesson to learn in every situation in life. And I love to have a funny story because there is always something to laugh about in life.            

The next few days with a mix of meeting with past friends, printing booklets, seeing the leadership team, Getting my Games together (I'm not only a team leader but the game Guru as well) and meeting new people. Check back with us Daily as we are posting at least once to twice per day (Thanks to Blogger App). Lots of things to do but we have a great group of leaders and translators here making it work. 


From the Heart of 

Keith 

Day 1...Part 5: 4th of July in kosova

They had a big celebration tonight for the 4th of July! We were able to go out and do some sight seeing and be able to enjoy some independence day festivities!

Now that it is 930 and we all only slept about 2 hours in over 24 I think it is time for bed. So so so so much to do tomorrow

Day 1...Part 4: In kosova!

We've made it. Three bags here so far as we wait in the baggage section. Hoping that the other three come!

Day 1...Part 3

Waiting for our flight to Zurich... May be the last time for quite a bit of hours before we have wifi again...one flight down waiting on flight 2 and then progressing to flight 3 after that...