School Spirit, Soccer’s Success, and Sunday’s Sundaes!

        Last week’s spirit week was a wonderful week to show a fun side and let loose before our upcoming break. Far too often at this point in a semester students and teacher hit a loll in the long stretches before a break. This week certainly has mixed things up as we turned the corner on the half of the semester and come rushing in to our Semana Santa (Holy Week). With Wednesday as grandma/grandpa day and Thursday as Character day, our students were able to take a break from their uniforms and really show their creativity.

        Spirit Week came to an end with Field Day. This events of the day consisted of different athletic challenges for the students to compete in for their team. From sack races, to dashes, and jump roping to soccer kicks, our students had a great opportunity excel in different areas. The competition was certainly close and while red and blue were tied at the last account, the white team officially won. Several students that don’t usually do very well athletically surprised even themselves and it was a wonderful opportunity for different students to excel and increase respect within my class.

     On Sunday was one of our women’s nights for my church! We always have a wonderful time getting to know each other better and having some laughs together. This night was movie night and it was decided to introduce the American Ice cream Sundae as the snack for the night. It was certainly a lot of fun loading up the ice cream and seeing their eyes get wide with all of the choices. Still the part I like best is getting to know the other ladies better, spending time with them!

Prayer Requests:
- As with last week, please pray for Paraguay right now and the spread of Dengue. This is a disease that is transmitted by mosquitoes (like Malaria), but has no preventative measure except to try not to get bit. Over 13,000 people have been officially infected and 18 have already d
ied this year. The school is taking every precaution possible with fumigations, daily empting of trash, etc, yet mosquitoes often have a mind of their own.
- Please pray for the physical strength to make it through this week as it is filled with high energy fun and busy schedules.
- Please pray for safety over Semana Santa and many people will be traveling!

Firsts:

-First time hearing a story about a mosquito in Guaraní! This week is Library week and today a good friend, Don Rosalino, who works as a maintenance worker here at ACA, came into my 4th grade class and read to us. Thankfully he paused to translate into Spanish for us! (I also went and read a Max Lucado book to 10th grade)

- First Field Day! It was truly a lot of fun!
- First time playing in a Teacher- Student Soccer game after the Field Day. The students were from the girls and boys high school teams. And… WE WON!!!!!! My several of the boys in my class even said, “Teacher, you play good!”
- First time the women of my church had ice-cream sundaes! We had a women’s movie night at the church and I enjoyed watching to other women as they loaded up their first Sundaes!