Safe and sound

Labas from Vilnius, Lithuania!
I left JFK airport Monday evening, arriving in Helsinki, Finland at 8:30am their time (1:30am at home). I flew with the two others from Messiah, Dan and Sara, and we took a 40 minute bus ride to the city to walk around. We became friends with a girl named Victoria who was flying home to Canada after visiting family in Estonia. It was kind of strange not being adults who I natural follow in foreign countries because we were the ones who decided where to go! We walked around and saw several churches, and a market place out on the bay. We had lunch there and took the bus back to the airport to catch our 4:15pm flight to Vilnius. We arrived at 5:30 where we got picked up from one of our directors, Emas. We gave us our schedule for the next few days and took us to the hostel where we are staying until Thursday, when we take a 4 hour bus ride to Klaipeda to get settled in at school. I met about 10 other students from the U.S., as well as 4 interns who will also study at LCC. They're from Russia, Moldova, Kazakstan, and Ukraine :) We all had dinner together at a place called Marceliukes Kletis. A very old building, everything made on the inside of wood- no electricity, with just simple tables with benches and a few candles. I had a traditional Lithuanian meal of potatoes with meat on the inside- interesting, to say the least. We were free to roam around. The restaurant looked like a historic kind of and we went out on the balconies and up spiral staircases to different rooms. Tomorrow we're going on some tours and going bowling at night. Thursday afternoon we leave for LCC/Klaipeda.

It's strange blogging when it's 3pm at home and 10pm here. I'm really jetlagged and can't wait to sleep tonight. I don't really know what to say I guess, to be honest. I feel a bit over whelmed with all that I want to say to so many people. I am happy, but until I get to LCC I miss being at Messiah and already having friends there. Making new friends is hard sometimes, and it makes me miss my old ones, as well as my family and Eric. I wish you were all here. Please continue to pray for me that I will make new friends quickly and that I will be happy and not be too homesick.