Another update...

Student Life comes back a week or so before the faculty do at LCC.  We do our training a bit earlier because student leaders arrive a week or so before school starts.  It's been great to be here a bit early - I've had time to get settled and see some things in the city before the beginning of the school year rush hits.

Thursday we had another birthday in the student life department.  Paul, our new chaplain celebrated his 54th birthday.  The Staves and I took him out to dinner to celebrate - hwo could we not?!  I mean, who wants to celebrate their birthday alone in a new country?  We went to a restaruant in town named "El Dorado."  It was a nice outdoor cafe with good service and great food!  I got to try to Lithuanian delicacy "Kepta Duona su Suriu" - which is rye bread cut in strips and then fried.  They put a sauce of melted cheese and mayonaise on it. It's very tasty! 

Kepta Duona su Suriu

My entree with dinner was a chicken with shrimp sauce.  It was delicious as well.  I appreciate the care that the restaraunts here put into making the dishes so pretty with how they arrange the food.  The use a very basic, but tasty vinagrette dressing on their salads - so good!

My delicious dinner!

Friday evening a bunch of us from the student life office went to the beach for a bbq to celebrate another Student Life birthday!  Becky (one of myRDs) has a birthday this weekend, so she and her husband planned the birthday party for her.  It was great to spend more time chatting with my new co-workers and enjoying the peaceful evening at the beach.  Erik & Becky provided the meat and everyone else brought things to go with it.  I made a make-shift oriental cabbage salad.  It was very well liked by everyone -which we all know made me very happy!  :)

Here are some fun scenes from the beach...

This is the Stave's adorable little boy - Isak.

Susie at sunset on the Baltic Sea.

Our group from afar - enjoying the evening.

The writing in the sand...I'm here to stay!

The sunset...so lovely!