Ok, so while it isn't snowing currently, there is a good bit on the ground and it was snowing yesterday.  I love the snow and while it does mean everything is colder, it also means that there is no mud!!! I love the fact that I can walk to school and not worry about getting my shoes all dirty.  I'd have snow and ice over mud any day.  below is the view from my bedroom window:
                                                              

We only have one more week of school before the Christmas break begins.  That means TEZA testing (semester tests) for the lyceum (high school) students and other students being more squirrely than normal.  Yesterday my 11th form (grade) class gave me a box of chocolates.  Today two boys from the 10th form barked at me...  So, while I like most of the students I teach, there are those who are harder to find good things about.

Things that have changed about me since coming to Moldova:  I know have what PCVs refer to as Moldovanca bangs and I wear skinny jeans tucked into my boots...as well as tighter tops.  I've had several instances where people who I work with or know in the community have told me how much more frumos I am now and how much more Moldovan I look...which begs the question.  How bad did they think I look before?  I also now wear a Moldovan coat.  Meaning its fashionable but not as warm as my Columbia coat.  In America no one would ever think to ask if my Columbia coat was warm enough.  Here if I wear it people will touch it and are worried that I am not warm enough.  However, with my new coat, which is knee length, I have never had a single person ask me if I am warm enough (even though this coat isn't nearly as warm).  All they say about my fumos coat is how fumoasa it is.  Who knew I'd pick fashion over function.  I am not wearing heels though.  I still am amazed at how these women can walk on uneven muddy roads in 3 or 4 inch heels.



I made a powerpoint titled "What is Art"  for my 8th form class.  I used a doodle from one of my 11th form boys which I think is pretty cool:

Pretty awesome right?  If I do a mural at my school, he would be the first one I ask.

Thanksgiving was fun.  I spent it with about 80 other PCVs at the Peace Corps office.  We had turkey and all the traditional food.  I helped make the potatoes and spent most of the day in the kitchen.  Afterwards I watched a pirated copy of Harry Potter 7 and made fun of it with several other volunteers.  Christmas vacation will be spent in Barcelona and Bucharest.  I am looking forward to this.  It will be nice to have a break.  And I am always up for seeing a new part of the world.

So that is it for now.  Hope you all enjoying the holiday season!  Thank you to the church for the package you sent via my mom!  It was awesome!