It's 11 p.m. on Saturday night, the students who were here for movie night just left, and Sarah and I are cozied up with our laptops. Tonight 10 students came over and I introduced them to the joy of the BBC version of Pride and Prejudice. Watching it, I realize I should have publicized it as a vocabulary enrichment evening! I had forgotten how thick and British (and luscious to the native English-speaking ear) the dialouge can be. As the girls were leaving, I found myself telling the story of the Thanksgiving weekend when my dear aunt Carol kept telling ourselves, "we'll just watch one more episode. Just one more episode...", until we found ourselves still huddled on their sectional couch finishing the movie at 3 in the morning! It is good just to be women together, and relish the time to relax and just be....
Today Sarah, Iris (another English teacher) and I went to Kretinga, a town slightly north of Klaipeda, which I really love. It has beautiful little churches, a lot of parkland and paths for walking, and a lovely indoor "Winter Garden," which I'll definitely have to go back to visit in the winter. The weather was unimaginably gorgeous, and I was blessed to discover, in the teahouse bookshop, a printed copy of the Lithuanian poem I posted here a month or so ago. ("Tu esi Dievas, as tvarinys..."). I'm thrilled to have a complete copy of it!
A good day, an ordinary day.
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Could you post the full text on your website? ive always wanted to read the whole thing. Jerilyn and I got to hear Georgian men's choirs echoing in the Sameli Tsminda church, the largest church in Asia, in the heart of T'bilisi... i agree- there is nothing like that singing- especially when echoing off those yellowish tuff walls of that cavernous space
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