First Week of Summer Program

The first week of our summer program is done and if you've read my previous post, you're probably wondering if I've gotten my pasola back. Well, I haven't. Our Field Director has been in contact with the owner of the pasola (a former missionary who left about 2 years ago) and after looking in several places for the title we still haven't found the documents. Please keep praying for this situation and that I could at least get my rain jacket and pants from the seat of the pasola (we aren't actually sure where it is... Jarabacoa, La Vega, Santiago...?).

As for the first week of classes, things went pretty well. It's quite different teaching kindergarteners than 3rd-8th graders but it's a nice change. Having Ruth in the class has been so helpful! This week we read and did activities with the book, "Peter Rabbit." The first couple of days we didn't have enough activities to do but I'm planning on having even more "fillers" next week. One of the best parts of the week was on Thursday when I sat with the kids as they listened to Ruth read Peter Rabbit and three or four of the kids wanted to sit by me.

Another part of my job this summer is tutoring a couple of sixth grade boys in math, finally something involving math! We've been reviewing the multiplication tables and practicing taking your time to do problems correctly. The boys seem to actually be enjoying it!

Thanks for your prayers as always. Please pray for the next week of summer program, for my transportation situation, continuing to raise financial support, for my daily time with the Lord, and for missing my friends and family. Have a wonderful weekend!

Some of our students working away.

We had a special snack of Pringles (we needed the cans for a project).

Jeff is one of the boys who came over from Haiti after the earthquake. He has been doing great in my class and he got "Student of Week!"

The Bible verse for the week was Romans 6:23.

Here are some of the projects we did this week.

We learned about gardens while reading Peter Rabbit. We made a graph of all our favorite vegetables. The most liked was potatoes!