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Saturday, April 11, 2009

Eight months! I cannot believe that I have been here for that long! It has been such a great year and I am going to miss it a lot! There are only TWO weeks left of school! We are trying to wrap things up with the curriculum and get ready for our open house play that is being written by the 5th graders in their journaling class. All of the kids have been VERY wired this week. I think it's because they know that the end is near! All but two of our kid's families are going on furlough at the same time that I leave here. The preschoolers don't really remember America since they were 2 the last time they were there!

School has been going really well! The preschoolers have gotten into a really good routine and they are doing so well in all of their classes! They are reading very well and it's so much fun watching them learn new things! The third graders are doing SO much better about finishing sentences in their writing

Asher and Gabe coloring

. They are starting to get the concept of an introduction and conclusion sentence and are finishing thoughts much better in their paragraphs! Fifth grade is learning a LOT of geography right now! We are on our Africa chapter and I always give them a map quiz over the area of the world that we are studying, but I decided that I should break down the map quiz over ALL of Africa. Every week they have been having a map quiz over a different set of countries in Africa plus the ones that they did the week before. They have been doing SO well! I'm really proud of them! They are going to have a map quiz at the end of the year over most of the places that we have studied and I think that they will do really well!

Daniel and I have started biking a few miles every few day. It is SO hot out there, but it's never a boring ride! The road is paved, so that is a very nice part of the ride! There are always kids around singing "Anzi! Anzi! Anzi!" (white person) and the adults looking at us like we are crazy (which I would have to agree with them on that one :). There are lots of eighteen-wheelers that come through and they tend to not be in the best working condition and there are always some broken down along the way. We have to watch out for the ever present goat/sheep/donkey/pig/chicken that will walk in front of you and the moto taxis (motorcycles) that zip by

All of the kids during recess

. Thankfully it has not been as hot lately because we keep getting random rain showers that cool things down a little...and then it gets muggy...but it's cool for a while!

I will, Lord willing, be leaving Kara on April 28 and flying out of Accra, Ghana on April 30. I should be in Atlanta late on the night of May 1 and then I'll be going from there to Relay for Life in Roberta! I'm not sure how awake I will be at that point, but Mom will be there working, so I will be there! :) Prayer requests: The team here as so many of them are getting ready for furlough and the rest of them are having interns here this summer; Please pray for the people in the states (and everywhere) that have gotten laid off; Please pray for each other!

Thank you so much for the messages! I hope that you are all having a wonderful weekend! God bless!

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Me and the 5th graders

Lord's supper at a village church

Outside one of the villages

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