Traveling Over Seas to Albania and Greece

May 12, 2020, Wow, well yesterday marked 2 months in Albania. I miss the boys like crazy. They are doing good. Their dad was home with them for like 3 weeks so that was nice. I started teaching some local kids a little English and it has been an adventure and I have enjoyed it. The children have showed me a lot of love. Some days I have had 11 or 12 children come. Now most do not come but it is easier to teach less students because they can pay attention better with less. They have drawn me a couple pictures its so cute. It has certainly been interesting interacting with the families and not being able to understand each other. But being able to describe things with my hands and learning more words makes it interesting and we laugh a lot. Today I showed them connect the dots game and we had a lot of fun with that. We celebrated my hosts mothers birthday last week so that was a lot of fun as well. I have been looking for tickets they are very expensive. There was a flight on April 30...

Sunday April 12, 2020 Good morning beautiful world. I have now been in Albania for a month. Crazy I am still thinking that am I really here. But yes, yes I am. I miss my boys so much, but they are doing good. I video chat with them every other day. Zaydin is getting bigger and Sebastian is getting a couple of freckles on his face. I am learning new thing and ways to cook meals. I would love to learn to make bread but I need to get a pan as I do not have one. Not sure I want to buy one ither but we will see. Its been around 2 weeks since I wrote. The place I am staying at is wonderful. I am truly blessed to have met them. I have gone and worked in the field a couple of times. We were going to go today, however my hosts mother is tired. Which is probably better because she over works herself far to much. She makes her own bread and most of the time her own butter. It is pretty cool. Borders are closed and we are still on a lock down. In order to go to the supermarket or do any othe...

Thursday March 26. 2020 💖🙏🇦🇱🙏💖  Hello world, We are currently going through some crazy and dark times. My love goes out to everyone everywhere as we continue to fight this coronavirus. I have got to this place a week ago and it is very nice. I paid for one month. I will probably look for another place after this though something cheaper would be better for me. All my bills back home are coming due now. So I am working on figuring those all out. I am remaining positive as best as I can. I had a few emotional days but got past those. So happy I brought my reusable pads those have certainly come in handy. I am sitting outside as I write this. It is almost 18:00 the days are getting longer slowly here. It smells so good and it relaxes me. I love the smell of burning wood. On Saturday March 21, 2020 I celebrated 19 years from my car accident that occurred in 2001. This is always a day I celebrate the beautiful life that I have been given the opportunity to live. I could hav...

Thursday March 19, 2020 🇦🇱💖🇦🇱 It continues to be beautiful here in Albania. Soon my computer will die and I wont be able to use it anymore. Somewhere along the way I lost it. I think in Greece. It will be ok though. On Sunday March 15th I stayed isolated in my room all day. That was along day. At this time I have not been able to watch TV and I only listen to music very little. I have no desire to watch TV so i just stroll through my facebook and twitter and read the latest updates. On Monday March 16th I moved to an apartment from the hotel I was staying at. Talk about complete luxuroy. It is so beautiful here and next to the sea. I still have very little contact with people. Good to keep my distance though. After I got settled into the new place that I booked for 3 days. I went down to get grocieries from the supermarkets. It is a 15 minute walk, but it is beautiful. I cooked a large dinner this night it was so nice to finally cook. Id been at the hotel for 5 da...

🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱 March 14, 2020 Saturday  Hello world... how ya been? It's crazy I know. Let me back track to Wednesday the 11th. I took a bus to Albania. The sights were so beautiful. The bus ride was just over like 10 hours. I got into Durres around 6pm it was just getting dark. I stopped at a bakery that had wifi to look for a place for the night. I was there for a few minutes and then the police came in. About 10 minutes later the lady said they had to close early due to the coronavirus. So i screenshot a few hotels and begin go look for them. One I couldn't find. The next hotel wouldn't let me in. Thankfully another one had popped up on my maps and I made my way there. I was able to get a room. They were nice. Thursday 3/12/2020 I woke up feeling refreshed. I went out to look for another place and for the bus station by now they were talking about shutting stuff down even more. It was nice out. I did not have any luck finding another place so I chose to stay anot...

March 11, 2020 Good morning world! <3 Today is beautiful and the sun is out. It is 8:40 am and I am waiting for my bus to Albania. So lets back track to yesterday. I took a bus to Athens. I got lucky and the bus took me very close to were I was able to walk and take a subway to the Acropalis one of the most famous places in Greece. Absoultly ** beauitful. I ended up being very warm like 64. I got alot of exercise in with walking. I also visited the musume the that was very beautiful. It is very different here from America the housing and roads. In some ways Greece reminds me of Hawai'i and other ways of Mexico. Although I have not been to Mexico I have driven along side the boarder and seen inside so the way the houses are very close together and like stacked on top of each other. It is interesting. I found a cafe and stopped for a coffee and to charge my phone and connect with my people back home and my freind. I got to video chat with Sebastian it was so nice. Zaydin ...