Happy Women's Day!

What a happy day it is for women here! It is the one day when women here are “pampered” by their men. They probably don’t have the same definition of being pampered as we do in America. But nonetheless, many of the women receive flowers, and are relieved from their duties of cooking and cleaning for the day.

There have already been so many festivities connected with this holiday before today including, a lunch on friday given by the men at the Center for the women there, where we all received flowers and free coffee drinks of our choice from the cafe. Then the boys from conversation club arranged another party for the girls where we played games and won prizes and they even sang to us, their song of choice was “You’re Beautiful” By James Blunt. It was sweet. On Monday I also received flowers and presents from several of our students.

These things were awesome, but today was the best by far. Today we celebrated by having a complete sabbath. A no plan day! And it was wonderful!

We slept in till about 9:00 and then enjoyed a slow morning together which included Banana-Oatmeal-Cinnamon-Pancakes and Coffee.

After we enjoyed our long morning we hit the streets. The sun was shining today and  temperatures were up! It was the first real spring day in the city and it was obvious. It really felt like a holiday or even a vacation. Everyone was in good spirits, walking and laughing with friends and family.After going to many different shops and walking the city for hours we went to a nice dinner and finally at the end of the day we sat by the Tulip and talked as the sun began to set.

When the sun was almost down we went home and watched a movie while I sipped wine and Curtis sipped coffee. It was my idea of a perfect women’s day. I hope there are many more to come!