A Ginger Perspective : Hallways of Toilets, Classrooms of Dust, and Cold-Water Showers

This week the construction at school seemed to be major, but honestly it's pretty much been this way since we arrived. I swear, I'm ingesting more dust here than I have in my entire life and I'm pretty sure I've changed classrooms like five or six times now. But the kids are definitely worth it and it makes for an adventure, a little unknown to switch up our days a bit.

Our host family seems to have lost their hot water this week too... cold showers are awful but a necessity when you get as covered in dust and kid slime as we do. Brr....

This is what our classroom looked like when we walked in on Monday morning

Kids can play in this right?

Toilets in our hallway and the smell was even better

Our Friday excursion into Old Town took us to Literatu street.

It's a really cool street that's just lined with the work of Lithuanian artists along the wall

This was probably my favorite piece. Looks real right?

On Saturday we went to the Hill of Crosses. We packed ourselves a lunch and headed on the two and half hour train ride there. The Hill of Crosses is this Catholic pilgrimage site located in a little town a couple of hours away from Vilnius. When I was researching Lithuania before I got here, this place was literally the only thing I could find. So pretty much I've been excited to go since day one! It definitely met my expectations too. It's been torn down multiple times because of wars and Soviet occupation but every time it's rebuilt bigger and better. It was a really neat experience to be there, to see all of the crosses, and to think of all the people that have been there throughout the years, bringing crosses of their own.