Moi Boze!

Good grief, time has been flying!

Hmm, well I'm teaching over 27 hours a week now (up from 16) and have my first private student, named Hanna. Work and life has been insane, but good.

Let's see, well, the Pope died, and that was interesting to be here in the thick of things. My time is too short now to write about it, but I've recorded many of my students comments and hope to post them here.

We spent Easter in the unpronouncable mountain town called Szczyrk. We got one run on skis in the rain, a nice long hike over rolling, snowy hills and ate some more quintessential inauthentic Mexican food! Smacznego!

OK, what else...oh, Jill, Dawn and I are training for the Krakow half marathon! (13.1 miles/21 kilometers). In high school I once ran over 16 miles...but that was half my life ago...
So, we're slowly but surely getting in better shape, and just in time for another trip:

WE'RE GOING TO THE DOLOMITES IN ITALY!!!!

He he he. Much more up my alley than skiing in Austria (which was still cool, of course!). It's Italy's 2nd rainiest month of the year, so who knows what we'll accomplish, but we hope to do different types of rock climbing at lower elevations, do some crazy/cheating via ferrat (iron way) routes, and if all goes well, 1-3 alpine routes. They've had a late winter, and got dumped on recently, so who knows.

Anyhoo, I just wanted to say hi as it's been a super long time since last post.

Oh, I'm legal now!!!!

Ciao!

j n j

:)