There was much screaming and great joy in our house on Tuesday night last week. Was there a cockroach, you may ask? Was Brad Pitt at our door? Did we find another batch of ants attacking our kitchen? The answer to all the questions is no, tho 2 of them are fairly probable. What happened is this: I brought home something very special after a visit to our Canadian neighbors´ house. It was something we have not seen for many months, something that people of all ages, shapes, sizes and tastes generally enjoy: sweet corn! Bethany and I literally jumped for joy at the sight of it and we were all very thankful that the Kehler´s work with the German Mennonite colonies down here.
On Friday, my classroom expressed the same emotions as stated above: suprise, happiness, and excitement, but not due to the sight of sweet corn. This time it was due to some special visitors we had in our room at about lunch time. These visitors were Julie´s 2 monkeys. Since they arrived at about the same time as the food did, the other teacher and I really had our hands full trying to keep the monkeys out of the kids´ food, keep the kids sitting down, and get the monkeys out of the room. I think the last part was the hardest because the monkeys were really enjoying swinging around on the curtains and running across the room and into the little playhouse we have for the 2-year olds I work with. We finally got both of them out and shut the windows on one side of the room and took a deep breath in victory, only to turn around about 2 mintues later and see that they had come back in through the other windows. The scoundrels ran around the other side of the building! Not to worry, we got them out once again after numerous attempts and this time closed ALL the windows. Afterwards I felt like our little excapade would have made a great movie: The Day the Monkeys Came to Class!
-Rachel
P.S. If you are looking at our pictures don´t forget to look on the next page and the one after that as well cuz there´s a lot of new ones!!
Praises:
Jessica is feeling and looking much better
We all were safe in our camps during the Carnaval festivities in the city
We all love our classes at the Guaderia, though they are much work and make us very tired
The sun has been out for the past 3 days! I can´t remember the last time that has happened because we´ve been getting so much rain
Prayer Requests:
For my (Rachel´s) health as it appears I am coming down with a cold or allergies
For energy and health for all of us as we work at the daycare
For us to be able to wisely disciple one of our friends from SASS training
For our coordinators Chuck and Cindy, as they move this week from their house near ours to the Children´s Home
For our relationships with the children and people we encounter everyday inside and out of the daycare, that they would see Christ in us and be saved
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