Hometown Publicity

I revised the Logos Foundation article I wrote for Flanders Today for our hometown, local paper to include more specifics about what Troy is up to in Belgium. Kind of fun to picture what the Rangers are thinking about that crazy robot guy! Check it out.

Extension

I'm happy to report that Troy applied for and received a 1-month extension on his Fulbright grant. That means the end of our lease in Ghent will be July 31. It will be great to be here for part of the summer and especially for the Gentse Feesten, a 2-week event featuring all kinds of music, theater, food and drink. It's the largest open-air festival in Europe, bringing in 1.5 million people each year. We hated to think we would miss such a party!

It's hard to believe that we've been here now for five months, and that our time is half over. We are finally starting to meet some people and feel more settled. We met a nice American couple through a Facebook expat group who we seem to have a lot in common with. And we've been going out for drinks with a fun Romanian couple. I guess right about the time we have to leave we'll be feeling like this is home. So goes the life of an academic and trailing partner I guess. Hopefully all this change and moving around will make me a more resilient and flexible person in the long run. It certainly has been an adventure!

Tante en Oom!

Well, we are tante (aunt) Lissa and oom (uncle) Troy once again! Troy's brother Casey and his wife Cassie welcomed their son Jack Casey into the world a couple of weeks ago. Here's a very early shot of the little cutie (stolen from Casey's fb page, hope he doesn't mind).


I'm excited to report that Jack has red hair! Yay! Since some have claimed that redheads are going to be extinct before long, this brings me some comfort. We can't wait to meet him!

We can't wait to meet our niece either, she's now 8 weeks old. Here's my sister and Ethan with Ria.