No....this isn't Kosovo. Since I know that many of the blog readers aren't friends on Facebook, I stole some photos from Chrissy and Elise's photo albums to give you an update about them. Chrissy is spending this semester studying in Jaipur, India through SIT (School for International Training). Here she is on a camel...she actually went on a camel safari and slept under the stars a couple of weeks ago. I think she looks like a natural!
Chrissy is on the the far right in this photo with some of the other students in her program. She is having a great time and benefiting from many wonderful experiences. We don't hear from her as often as we're used to, but we're happy that she is busy and making the most of this opportunity.
Chrissy at the Taj Mahal. She has seen so many sites and will finish up the last 6 weeks doing a capstone project in Mumbai.
Our firstborn daughter, Elise. She is completing her 3rd year as a researcher in a children's brain cancer lab at the University of California San Francisco. She and her boyfriend, Matt, are moving to Nashville, Tennessee in August since Matt will begin a doctoral program there. Elise will probably work for a year and then enroll in a graduate nurse practitioner program.
Elise with our grandbunny, Stewie. He is only about 6 months old, but growing daily.
Chrissy turned 21 in November, and Elise flew to Colorado a couple of weeks later to help her celebrate. Here they are at the Boulder Brewing Co. having fun sampling some of the local Colorado brews. We are looking forward to visits from both of them in Kosovo in May. Elise and Matt will be spending a month in Europe and at the end of the trip will come to Kosovo. We hope to show them the beautiful areas of Kosovo and take some jaunts into Albania, Montenegro, Macedonia, and maybe the Greek island of Corfu.
Chrissy will come to Kosovo in late May and be with us for a couple of months. She will either attend a summer university program in Pristina for a few weeks or do an internship with an NGO in Kosovo for a month to add to her resume.
Frank and I should have some interesting posts after next weekend. We're planning to spend Easter weekend in Macedonia. Frank has been under the weather with a bad cold, and I have been dealing with dentists for the past few weeks. I found a great oral surgeon last Friday and had a root canal. He did some of his training at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, and his office was very high tech with computers images, etc. The total cost of the visit was 35 Euros (around $45). Dentists here are very well trained (usually in Germany or the U.S.) and the charges are very low compared to dental work in the U.S. Of course, I wish I hadn't needed to have the work done, but I'm glad that my problem is being treated. Anyway, Frank and I are renting a car and looking forward to exploring more of Macedonia outside of the capital, Skopje, which we visited in December.
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