The Votes are In!

Apparently, a motion was passed in the lower (penisula, that is) house in Michigan, and it is hereby mandated that I post some new news! The democratic process that makes this country great has superceded my procrastinatory tendancies and as I am a law abiding citizen, I will proceed to do my duty to home and country.

(If you are not a voting citizen of the house and the aforementioned motion makes no sense, please read the comments on my previous blog)

So, one day I was sitting in the hallway giving Thomas a test. He got distracted by my dangly earrings and started to play with them. "Teacher, where did you get these?" "I got them at the Piercing Pagoda, in the mall." I replied. "Oh!" he said, "I thought maybe Walmart!" Their frame of refrence concerning the outside world begins and ends at the Walmart!

We had an Emmaus group and I had a student in my class the entire week before spring break. That was really nice and I got some good ideas.

Spring Break went well and we got to visit a lot of friends and family all across the country.

The first week back went well. Six weeks to go and we have a busy month ahead of us. We had a group from Salon Biblico (Bible Hall) in Colorado came out to visit. It was really nice to meet them; their church has been supporting the mission for years, but we had never met any of them. We have begun the process of building a new building for the shop class building. This included moving a trailer and gutting it; the boys from the group really helped to get that done. Then we had a big bonfire on Friday night to burn all the stuff that came out of the trailer; lots of people from the community came out to watch and we all had fun.

I am going to try and plan a field trip for my class at the end of April or early May . There is a natural history museum in Farmington, with stuffed animals (taxidermy) and a section with live animals too. That should be fun.

I am also going to Albacurque with the 5th and 6th grade class for their trip. Aunt Ruth is going to substitute for me. Pray for her!

Also please pray that we find a 1st grade teacher for next year. I would be the next option (Yikes) and I would perfer not to teach first. But Uncle John thinks that we will get a teacher. We have two new teachers coming and one of them is married with at least one child. It will be nice to have some young kids living on the mission.

Hope that is enough news for now.