(There is nothing special about this video! I was look for something that conveyed busyness!)

Summer has finished. September has begun. And that means homeschooling is in full swing. Michelle has worked hard prepping for the 2016-2017 school year, using a mix of Canadian and American curriculum. She is teaching Liberty, who is in Grade 4, and Van, who is in Grade 2. She is grateful for the amount of digital resources; but at the same time books are needed. It is challenging to conduct classes in Liberty’s bedroom, but there is room for two desks, leaving just enough space left for Liberty to have a play area.

This is one element of overseas life which is often overlooked but one which requires just as much prayer as the other aspects of our life and work here. Please pray!

The kids are doing well. I think the day we started home-school they were a little shocked! What? school? I have to go to bed early? I can’t play all morning? But after a week they were into the swing of things.

The students I have this year are the same as the ones I taught last year. I admit that I was sort of hoping to be assigned to the First Year students. One honest reason is that I could use a bulk of my lesson plans from the previous year with them and not have to come up with new stuff! But, I am glad now that I have the same set of four classes. They were glad too. You can’t beat a better start to your year than having an entire class stand up and cheer when you walk into the room!

The various literature projects are still on-going. There’s been a resurgence of sorts from others in sending feedback, whether it be spelling or grammar errors, or formatting, etc. For this I am really glad. I am still praying that a team of sorts can form to help with the last big push of combining

It is already cool here, weather-wise. We enjoyed the summer, and the heat, but not the mosquitos. We will be pulling out the suitcase with the Autumn and Winter clothes soon. I am looking forward to this winter actually. Since the kids are older we will be able to have more building adventures.

Liberty and Van recently became owners of their own individual guinea pig. The cage we have for them is too small, but we aren’t sure what to do about anything bigger. We don’t have room! One sad bit is that the first guinea pig of LIberty’s died. We don’t know how, or why, but after 5 days it went downhill quickly. Liberty found it in the morning, thought it was sleeping. And started crying when she realized the poor thing had died.

We look forward to hearing from you!