Waiting for Meeshack and Abednagoh

The new kids started school this week! In the three year old class we have Joseph and Chanda. Joseph is either a really old three year old or a four year old, but he is really with the program and usually knows what is going on. Chanda is a really young three year old and he does not really know what is going on and is kind of off in his own little world a lot of times.

In the four year old class we have Richard. The first two days he was fine, then, as people around here like to say, the honeymoon was over. He started acting out in class and had to have some time outs. He got talked to this morning before class by two of the teachers and two of the mommas and then today he acted really well! The three year olds were also really well behaved today.

The kindergarteners got three new kids, Mirriam, Zawady, and Shadreck! Hence the title of this blog. I do not know much about them except that they know zero English, like our new kids, and sometimes Zawady can get overwhelmed with all of the new things going on around him when he does not understand any of it.

We went to the new school building to pray over it again today and that was a nice treat. The weather was pretty chilly in the beginning of the week but yesterday and today are beautiful!

I have been really encouraged by the staff here and by the teacher I work under, Teacher Maureen, and by all my friends at home and my family, and all the letters that I have with me here. Thank you to everyone who is doing such an awesome job of encouraging me as I do get lonely here being the only teenager. I will get new roommates on June 7th I believe.

We have been without power a lot lately, and many times when the power is out so is the internet, so I have not had time to sit and write a post in a while due to those things.

We will get ready for next week this afternoon at the school. Next week our unit is on colors! This week we learned about shapes. Most of the kids can identify oval, circle, heart, square, rectangle and triangle pretty well now. I think we might have Monday off of school due to a holiday, but I am not sure yet.

I will not get to go in to town this weekend, I will be here with the kids! Hopefully we can do something fun on Saturday. Sunday I get to go to church with the kids and the mommas, but the service will not be in English so I will not really know what is going on. Oh well.

Back to work :) All my love from Zambia!