The Adventures of a Christ Follower

Hi everyone!! I hope this post finds you well! Things here have been going pretty smoothly. The weather has stayed cool except for 2 or 3 days that we had without rain. School is in full swing and I FINALLY got a schedule for my classes set in stone! I've been teaching in my own classroom, though I haven't been able to decorate it yet because I believe they are going to paint it yet. I went back and skimmed my last post to see how much I needed to catch you up on, and it seems that it has been a long time since the things in my last post have happened! So hopefully I will remember everything that's happened since then. Classes have been going pretty well. The oldest class is catching on the quickest. We had already worked on verbs and prepositions, so this week we worked on question words and common questions. Some of the younger classes are still working with a couple verbs and some others have started on prepositions. These kids are so bright! When they're paying at...

Hola amigos! Hope you all are doing well! If not, maybe something in this post will lift your spirits! This past week has been pretty busy for me. This past weekend I got to do something I've been wanting to do since the first time I came here. I got to jump off the bridge into the river! We always drive over this bridge on the way to the farm. There are always many people washing clothes at this spot and there are always kids swimming and jumping off the bridge! It was as fun as it looked as long as you ignored the brown water you were swimming in! We did that for several hours and that night I was the most tired I had ever been and had scrapes on my legs from climbing out of the river. It was well worth it though! The new family for House 1 came to visit on Saturday and started on Monday! For those who don't know, House 1 lost their parents about a month ago due to situations which I won't expand on. So, since then, one of the women who usually just helps the parents ...