Amazingly enough, the 10 month outreach for Mercy Ships is actually drawing to a close in the next few weeks. We will be sailing to the Canary Islands (about a 5 day sail) where the ship will be in dry-dock (out of the water) to be checked for anything the needs to be repaired. That hopfully will only take two weeks and then the ship will head to a different island to spend a few weeks of restocking and relaxing before headed off to the next outreach. During the time in dry-dock, there is actually no running water on the ship, so everyone is encouraged to take vacations during these weeks in December. School will also be having holidays from 7 December to 7 January, so I am taking that time to head to Germany and visit friends. Marcel and I have plans to fly to Basel together, spend a few days in Freiburg before he heads up to Solingen and then I will join him there sometime around Christmas. I am really looking forward to this time as a chance to catch up with friends, do some shopping and take showers for longer than 2 minutes :)
Before all that happens though, I need to get through the next five weeks of school :) Things have been going well up to know, so I have nothing to complain about. I have six girls in my nursery class and it has been fun to see them grow up over the last few months. The youngest turned one in July and the oldest just turned 3 a few weeks ago. I also have Miss Ellie helping me which has turned out to be an amazing blessing - having so many little ones around means an extra pair of hands really helps. Right now in nursery, we are learning colors - so far we have done a week of red and a week of yellow. Preschool is going well too - everyone seems to be settling in and Page (the head preschool teacher) is great at what she does. Not every day is perfect and there are still many things which are frustrating or always changing, but that is true anywhere :) I am seriously considering trying to continue teaching here Fall 2008, so things cannot be too bad. If you are interested in more weekly information about what we are doing in class and pictures, check out the blog that Page and I have - it is on my list of links on the right on this page.
Pictures: Preschool and Nursery at a pool party on the deck, Miss Page with the kids
2 comments:
Hallo Elizabeth,
hab Dich gestern im TV gesehen. Die Dokumentation über die Familie Edele wurde gesendet. Da warst Du einige Sekunden im Bild. Marcel leider nicht! Aber ich/ wir freuen uns, wenn wir Euch Weihnachten hier wieder sehen.
Liebe Grüße,Melanie
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