Happy Thanksgiving! I hope and pray that all of you had a wonderful Thanksgiving and holiday with your family! I spent it with 2 wonderful missionary families and another teacher family that live in our apartments. We had the full out turkey*, green bean casserole*, sweet potato casserole, mashed potatoes, pumpkin pie* (* have components that are not found in Paraguay). It was wonderful! We have Thursday and Friday off school which is much needed. It has been great to have a break and join together in a US tradition.
We are almost done with semester and are working hard to finish up! I can’t believe that this time next week, our first semester will be over! Plus in two days after that I will be on a flight home! Time has truly flown so fast. Especially in this last week; this is why this post has come later than normal. On Tuesday we had our Christmas concert for elementary! It went really well. I helped with two other mothers to set up and decorate our cancha (covered basketball court/all purpose), for two and half hours with decorations made by the students and other supplies. Shortly following a strange rain storm occurred and caused us to move everything inside! Thankfully everyone was very and understanding helped to move it smoothly. The funny thing is two blocks down from us it did not rain a drop! Still is was great to see how many parents showed up in support, especially as traditionally in Paraguay everything is cancelled if it rains!
Prayer Requests:
- As the end of the year is approaching our students are very energetic and with that have been teasing each other more. I have talked with them a lot about this recently and we are making progress. Still a lot of pain and habit have been building for years and it will take a while to make huge changes.
- End of the year completions!
- Strength and patience for our teachers and students!
Firsts:
- First time finding, Dulce de Leche…… baby food! Oh yes they start them very young here! Dulce de Leche is similar to a caramel and incredibly popular here. In fact it sometimes seems more common than chocolate! So why not in baby food!
- First time that someone has told me that they have heard of Pennsylvania, but don’t like it because Dracula lives there. I was talking to one of our sweet cleaning ladies in Spanish and she thought that Transylvania is in Pennsylvania. After I cleared up the information and told her of my time in Transylavania in Romania and of the “noble” Count Dracula, she said she might like Pennsylvania now!
When I was in Mexico, I had people make the Transylvania mistake all the time, and they share a border with us!!!!
ReplyDeleteI look forward to seeing you when you are home! I hope you have time. Maybe we could get together and look over the ePals lesson idea!