Weekend Retreat

A week and a half ago I went on a weekend retreat with the staff from the Veritas organization, the American students studying in Sighisoara, and volunteers. During the 3 days of the retreat we looked at personality types and how these traits helped us contribute to the organization. The retreat was at a beautiful private chalet in the mountains. During the retreat I had a chance to sing many of the old hymns in Romanian. It was beautiful. We walked up to the top of a mountain through a beautiful forest. God's creation was spectacular. We even saw a mushroom straight from a fairy tale. It was red with white spots. On Saturday morning a few of us got up at 6:00 to drive to a market in the village part way down the mountain. Although they had a vegetable market I was not prepared to see the meat market. There were whole wash tubs of just kidneys or livers. Racks of meat just hanging. I tried to take a picture of them chopping up the meat. This apparently infuriated one of the boss men who starting yelling at me. Then he gave Roberta and I a none to gentle push out of there. Other than that though I found that people in the market loved having pictures taken with their vegetables. The fall foliage was incredible on Thursday and Friday. Maurice and the boys came to spend the night on Saturday and by that evening we had gotten snow. When we woke up in the morning it felt like Christmas. The whole mountains had been transformed into a winter wonderland. The boys were so excited and we had to go out an play in it. Unfortunately, I had not planned for snow and the boys had no mittens. To Nolan's indignation I made him wear socks on his hands. They had a great time but it also nice to get back to our own home. Check out the picture album called "Weekend Retreat".- Karen