Today was the first day back at work for the staff of Biblijski institut, after the August break. The photo above was taken this morning in my corner and shows me and the two people (and great friends) with whom I share an office. This is Marina and Ivan Karadža. Marina is our secretary/financial manager and Ivan serves as our registrar and works with student services. Below is Tom Sibley, our director, talking with Marina. Just because we were not in the office during August, did not mean that I didn’t work the whole month. I did have a few days vacation time at the beginning of the month, but then worked with the teens at our annual church camp. I was also at the local police station a handful of times, beginning the process of the annual renewal of my residence permit. Now, we are looking forward to the return of students, as well as our ceremony honoring our graduates for 2012, both in the beginning of October. I have several administrative projects which I started last spring that I have set as goals to complete this fall. In addition, I will be teaching a course this fall, as well as continuing my own Croatian language studies.