Florida Team Finishing Up

It is early Sunday morning and the last team members are now flying back to the west. The last two days were great getting to know the village lifestyle and connecting in special ways. Friday evening we hosted a reception for the village. Part of the activities was an exchange in traditional folk dances. In the picture, some of the team members were trying their foot work out in the Albanian folk dance. We Americans, also displayed one of our folk dances, "The Virginia Reel", to the Albanians. We felt like we had stepped back in time as we clapped and stomped our feet to the music of "Turkey in the Straw". The Albanians laughed and it must have been funny to see us "swinging our partners" left and right. One of the other activities was to do a community improvement project. Randy Reid, the county manager for the Gainsville, Fl, area, had two signs made with the village name to put up on the main village road. In the picture is Connie (Randy's wife) with the mayor of Vlashaj. I also wanted to add another picture of a home visit with the team.