Last Wednesday everyone here had off of work and we had a big gulaš party outside. I was so excited because whenever we had gulaš before everyone said the best gulaš is when it is cooked in the woods, which confused me at first but it just means outside. In the morning Kristen and I cut lots of potatoes and onions, while Pali cut all the meat. Then we took everything outside where they set up a big kettle over the fire. In the picture you can see Eva pouring the potatoes in! The gulaš cooked in the kettle all morning while we sat outside and talked, played futbal, and played volleyball. The weather was perfect- it actually felt like a real summer day (which unfortunately isn't the case now). After a couple of hours the gulaš was ready and we had a nice meal in the shade.
Monday afternoon Kristen and I went about our normal routine of going to Tesco with Pali to do the food shopping for the week and it turned out to be an interesting experience. All the vans the center has were taken so we took a little old car that had just been donated by someone to the center. I don't know what kind or what year (sorry, I don't pay attention to these things) but it was quite a car- the trunk is in the front. As we were coming home Gabko, who was sitting in the front seat asks "What's burning?", then we all see smoke coming from the floor of the passenger seat where he is sitting. It starts to fill the car and smells horrible. Pali pulls the car over right away coughing and yelling in English "Everyone get out of the car!" Poor Gabko, whose English consists of 'Hello' and 'Thank you' looks around confused and then jumps out as we all do. Now, I am thinking the car is ready to explode, because we had two gas tanks in the front trunk. Pali looks in and sees a loose cable that the smoke is coming from, does something to it (sorry I don't know...) and it stops smoking. So then we get in the car and drive this thing home!! I was a little nervous about whether we would make it back or not but we survived, and after people looked at the car they seemed to think it was no big deal. I don't think I really want to ride in the smoking car anytime soon though.
After English class today Kristen and I decided to get ice cream at the village shop, and I tried something really unusual. It looked like just a cup of chocolate and vanilla ice cream, but it was much more than this. It was chocolate ice cream with tvaroh (tvaroh is translated as cottage cheese, but it's really different- I don't think we have anything quite like it in America) with raisins, and orange flavor- all in a little cup of ice cream! I never would have thought of raisins or tvaroh in my ice cream, but it was really good. I might have to try to replicate this in the U.S. Well, that's some of the random things happening. Tomorrow evening all the workers are going on a weekend retreat. I am really excited- we are going to a village near Liptovsky Mikulaš. We will have some meetings, Bible studies, and have free time to go hiking and do other activities outside. It should be a lot of fun to spend this time with the workers.
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