MOVING IN - SATURDAY

We made it here safely - but wow what a long day of traveling!!  Everyone has moved into their new homes - many are much nicer than the homes from the past few years - almost everyone has a toilet so no latrines and we are slowly but surely getting acustomed to life here in Elias Pina.  We were able to sleep in a little today and then after lunch we had our own little "Parade of Homes" through Elias Pina.  I figured that we must have walked at least 3 miles to get to all of the homes.  The students all seem very happy.  The pictures were taken outside of each of their homes with some of their family members.  Almost all of the homes are new host families this year so hopefully Ms Simon and Mrs McKnight won't get lost walking everyone home tonight!!

 

Tomorrow we plan to go to Mass and then help with 3 catechism classes - the topic this week for the little children (ages 7-12) is Moses - we are meeting tonight to come up with some ideas of what we might be able to do with them to make the lesson more interesting.  Wish us luck!!  Thank goodness we have Mrs McKnight - we know that she will come up with something!!  We found out that we will be painting two chapels - one on Monday and one on Tuesday.  We plan to teach ourselves some songs on the recorders that we brought along and then on Wednesday we plan to visit the Kindergarten classes at the school and teach them how to play the recorders.  That should be interesting too.  We are all falling in love with the children down here. The electricity was out most of the day today - we hope to post again tomorrow with more pictures but we can't promise anything because the electricity is so unpredictable.  We wish all of you well.  We don't even want to complain about how hot and humid it is here because we know you are freezing in Wisconsin.  At 11:30 am today the boys checked the thermometer and it read 94 degrees - hot, hot hot!!  God bless you all and thanks for your prayers!!