Not much

Not much going on at the moment - have been doing another intensive Russian class and became a bit deflated when I learned that the military ranking of Russian language is a 7 and Croatian is a three. certainly robs me of a big honking piece of hope that I might ever sound intelligible or intelligent. Blah. On the bright side, I DO understand more than ever, though this is debatable as well because sometimes Alister understands something totally different and it can be several days before we learn who is actually right over the course of events. The problem is he studied more, but sometimes I catch more things, but how to judiciate between two stubborn people who both heard two entirely different things? Of course, there are also the times when I completely misunderstand as well- so that doesn't help much.

The weather has been cooler recently - which is nice on the one had since the apartment does get incredibly hot in warm weather - but on the other hand we have no hot water (standard practice to turn it off for two weeks during the summer to clean out the hot water pipes) and so you just can't warm up. So I've caught a bit of a cold.

Haggai has successfully mastered sitting and shaking on command - but he'll only do it when he knows you have a treat for him. He is also getting craftier and it is getting harder and harder to evict him from the bedroom before we go to sleep. We just hope that our ingenuity continues to increase at the same rate as his.