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Good evening everyone.

Now I have decided to write my second blog entry!

I completed my exams on Thursday and Friday in France and I made it through! YAY!

So where am I now? I am currently in Croatia at the moment. I just arrived on a saturday night(very late) and was welcomed by my Croatian team, they are so sweet and caring and I instantly felt like at home!

So today, Sunday the 8th I woke up quite early and started doing some homework on my upcoming trip here in Croatia and I also looked around the area, did some grocery shopping etc. My team here found out about my birthday and they sang my birthday song and bought an ice cream cake AND made a poster to me with red and white wine bottles taped to it saying ” Happy Spirit – Journey Formation Anniversary ( that phrase came from my good friend Will who’s one of the team, such a fantastic spirit!) Guddy!! Welcome to the team.” I was not expecting that at all but once they came out and sang my birthday song I couldn’t believe it, and I actually just wanted to cry because I was so grateful for it!! I want to say again, Thank you thank you my dearest team members, you really made this day special for me!

In the afternoon I decided to go for a walk to the “beach” with my friend Tyler who’s from Australia. We were given directions to where we should go(we walked by the way) and off we went! And wow…. I was completely blown away by the beauty that awaited me. I had no idea that Croatia was such a beautiful country!!!!We walked down a very steep gravel road until we reached the rocky coast by the sea. From there we jumped into the sea which was so clear and blue and also very nice! We stayed there for a while until we got out and sat on the rocks, listening to some good music and watching as the sea would punch the shore. It was quite amazing and I still can’t believe that that just happened today!

Tomorrow I am going on a GRAF(Guided regional area familiarization) which means that I will travel with other leaders that are going to do trips here, and we’re going to go through all the trips that are running around here in Croatia for Backroads, I think it’s a very good thing that we’re doing this because then we get more sense for the area and knowledege. I think it’s going to be a lot of fun. After that we will start leading or supporting trips. Exciting times!!

As I said in the beginning, this is a short entry but I will try to write another one as soon as I’ve finished my first trip.

Hope you are all well wherever you are!

Vidimo se!

p.s Below you can see pictures from my day and videos! Enoy!

p.s 2 here are videos from my day today, one is in Iceland(sorry!) and the other one is just me and Tyler soaking it up.