mish mash 4

I was walking down the street the other day when someone waved, or said hello-I can't remember, and now I take that for what it is.  BUT when I stop and catch my breath I remember how that didn't happen when I first got here.  That makes me happy.  I just came back from buying some big poster paper and when I was coming back to the apartment my baba scolded me because she hasn't seen me and I haven't visited her in awhile.  This is just a collection of stuff I'm sure you have figured out.  So I'm doing handprint/footprint reindeers with the two younger classes in the Kindergarten and handprint salt-dough keepsakes for the older group for their parents for xmas.  I was in a magazine, store, copying a poem the other day and printing directions to the hostels I will stay in for my xmas trip and trying to explain "there is a concentration camp in Krakow that I was to see" but then I realized "oh, I forgot the word for war" so here I am trying to explain, and Jewish escaped me too, "the time when some German people didn't like other people and put them in camps and they worked and died."  That''s NOT funny, but it sure was funny hearing myself trying to get myself out of that one!!  Bless her heart, I think she got the picture.  I love it when people help me try to explain things!!  So it's December 13th and almost xmas time!  I havn't NOT been in the xmas mood but haven't overly been IN the xmas mood.  Today at school Nargis was on the computer and playing DJ at the same time with xmas songs (until she threw a Ricky Martin song in there and threw me off) and I got more in the mood and singing along!  Nothing like "All I Want FOr Christmas Is You" to put you in the mood!  THANKS UTUBE!  So, I had to go to a store anyway for my poster paper, and ended up buying some xmas lights...the "cheaper" ones.  In the sttes when we try to buy something don't salespeople alway show the more expensive item?  Even of 2 same items they bring out the more expensive ones?  I walked in the magazine and saw this box and was curious.  She showed me what it was and then took it out of my hand and put it back on the shelf and said "these ae cheaper.  These are expensive."  She even plugged them in for me; I figured I should buy them to add to my other lights my family sent me last year!  OH, final thing for today!  I am requesting your prayers for...me.  I need to make a decision and believe God will show me what He wants me to do.  Everything is fine, nothing to worry about (for those people like my mom who would read into that).  I just am going to need help figuring out what God wants!  It would be so easy if He gave BLATENT/OBVIOUS signs; alas it doesn't work that way.  Love and hugs from an unusually-warm-day-for-winter Bulgaria, and me!