The past few days have been great. We went into Sarjevo for the night on Thursday and had a great time. Aldin went to see Lord of the Dance so we went into the city with some friends and met up with him afterward. He enjoyed the show and we had a great night too. The bus ride is a little under 3 hours, so we´ll probably only go back again for a longer period of time. We have weekends free so we are thinking about going back to Sarajevo next weekend. Having a whole weekend there will be great.

The orphanage is hosting a boxing tournament. There are about 60 boxers staying there in their guest houses. They are from all over Europe - Croatia, Switzerland, Hungary, Germany, Serbia, Montenegro, and Bosnia of course - and some of them speak English. We watched their semifinal last night and it was really cool to see. The final is tonight and we might watch some of it. The only bad thing about the boxers being there is that it has made the whole orphanage really busy and crazy. We werent able to have classes yesterday because of it. The boxers are leaving today and tomorrow, so next week we should be able to get into a more regular schedule as well as our own classroom. They are using the biblioteka (where we will have our classes) as a training center for the boxers right now, so we have just been teaching the kids in their living room.

Tonight is our friend Alisa˝s graduation night. We are going to the ceremony and then to her after party. Graduation from high school is a really big deal here - she?s been preparing for weeks and is so excited. It will be cool to see a graduation since it sounds like a lot of fun. Afterwards the whole graduating class has a party at a hotel and then goes into the city to celebrate, so it should be a fun night.

Sunday we will spend preparing for classes and relaxing. We are hoping that once the boxers leave and things calm down we will be able to do more English classes. Right now we have one great class with the younger kids (ages 4 - 7, I think) and another class with the teenagers that is a lot less organized. I am hoping that this week the caretakers will set up a time for us to work with the kids aged 8 - 12 and also that the teenager class will start to be a little less chaotic. If not this week, then next week everything will work out, because they will be done with school and will have more free time for our classes.