What is up

Well, literally, what is up is the sky.ha

What is up with life...well there are a lot of things. 

Soccer and school are pretty much taking over my life right now with the occasional youth group which is such a blessing. Doing my best to make each one, sometimes being late. 

I am still major homesick from my second home. I was talking to one of my friends about Kazakhstan and the people there and I was talking about it as my home. I didn't really notice it until she pointed it out and was like "Yeah, I am." because it pretty much was/is. 

I miss my brothers and sisters and mom and dad!!

Andrey

 Anya

Ella

 Igor

 Ilias (Director's son)

 Kaisar

 Kuanysh (Director's son)

Losha

 Lena

 Marina

 Maksim, we called him Max :)     

Little Roma :)

 My Kazakh mom and dad, Kairat (dad) and Gulshat (mom)

Oleg

 Rinat

 Svetta

 Vasya

Beautiful Zhana (Director's daughter)

They are ALL amazing! :)

I miss our translators!                                                       

This is Talgat!
He was Hysterical! He always made me laugh. The first time we met him he cracked a joke at me...I knew we were going to get along just fine!haha I miss him. I greatly enjoyed getting to know him.

Zarina, she was so flippin' amazing!

I enjoyed getting to know her.

Raha, he was so sweet and a great working partner. 

He was so funny and a great talker and listener.

I enjoyed getting to know him as well! 

This is Ulia, she was a great and sweet girl.
She was and still is learning English to become a better translator.
It was a joy to get to know her.

**I think that it is a safe bet to say that is was SO good to get to know everybody on this trip.**

One of the kids that I grew most to, Maksim, we called him Max, got a facebook and I was TOTALLY excited! I am friends with everyone over there who has a facebook and I was ecstatic when I received a friend request from him!! :))

I have been staying in contact with them as much as possible because I want to know what is going on in their lives, and because if I do that I miss them a little bit less, but only a little bit. 

I have been taking some senior pictures with one of my friends moms and that has been fun, but it has been a little weird because since I am not that girly I feel weird having SO much make-up then I would put on and then make sure my hair was in the right position, etc. But to say the least it has been SO much fun!
Here are a few of the pictures I took with the first set, the second is yet to come.

Thank you for taking time to read this! :)

I hope that you have a wonderful rest of your weekend and please whenever you think about the soldiers from 9-11, say a prayer for them. 

Love Always & God Bless,

Shaina :))