Less than 3 months

Krisy and I are working feverishly with the language.  She is also putting in a 40+ hour work week at school and it's the panic period; I am responsible for the house and all mission preparations.  I work with a coach, tutor or volunteer 3 times a week and she works twice a week.  Romanian seems to be a little more random than Spanish so both of us are having a little trouble trying to understand why they do what they do with the grammar.  We've had our second round of immunizations and will finish all but our flu shots by the end of the month with our 3rd round.  I think all of the preventative maintenance that needs to be done by service providers around the house is complete except for last minute things with one car. We still need to do some preservation around the house.  We've had some great times with our local children (Erik and his family, Carey and her family and Rachael and Chris) and Karley and the kids (hopefully Al will join us in a few weeks) during their visits.  We are also looking forward to our big circle trip to California, Utah and Montana in a few weeks to see our "foreign" kids (Karley, Al and the kids will be watching the place) with some additional visits from the family here.  We will have over 36 hours in the car to study our Romanian; I have a feeling it'll be like the TV commercial (36 hours in the car with nothing to do but speak and listen to Romanian).  We've heard from the present Mission President and his wife (we, unfortunately, will miss meeting them), the incoming Mission President and his wife (we are excited to meet them) and a missionary service couple; they are all excited about their work in Romania.  Our English teaching class is winding down here; we are having a party with the class later in the month and inviting the 4 local missionaries in to meet the class members; we've tried to incorporate missionary material into the teaching.  We have grown to love the Hispanic people in the classes and will surely miss them.  We hope to be able to make similar relationships with the people of Romania.