Fancy Floors

The past couple weeks have been pretty much the same ol’ stuff—plan, teach, chill, eat, sleep. A few special things have happened though. One of my students has been coming to church the past three weeks. Her name is Isobel. Ironically, she’s the one whose necklace I lost. Ha! But she really loves coming to church. She seems so happy and I’ve noticed a definite change in her attitude in class. Ryan (the principal) said he visited her house once and it was very crowded with lots of people living in a tiny area. I think the extra attention at church has been really good for her. After her first Sabbath there, I asked her at school if she was coming again the next Sabbath and she said, “Yes! I’m going to go every Sabbath. It’s so fun.” I love that she loves it! She’s such a sweet girl.

Me, Oronia, and Isobel

Sunday we got new flooring in our apartment. It’s linoleum “hardwood.” That container was full of wonderful things for the apartments. It looks so very fancy! Once it was installed, we did some spring-cleaning and organizing. We rearranged and we now have a gorgeous living/kitchen area.

Emily will show off our fancy floors for us.

Our new couch

It's so clean and open!

After our very productive Sunday, we had a visitor for dinner. Of the 15,000 people living on Ebeye, there are very few Americans. So when we see other Americans, we’re instantly friends. One of these is an ASL teacher on Ebeye and Gugeegue. He’s deaf, but speaks very well and clearly. He’s really nice. Saturday night we ran into him at the store; we talked for a while and invited him to dinner Sunday night. I took ASL last year at Southern so I tried signing to him instead of talking, but I don’t remember much. I asked him like two questions in ASL, and then we went back to talking. Haha. Anyway, he came over and we had a good time. We ate and played Bananagrams—what we do almost every night. Daniel had never tried a Reese’s before, because he hated peanut butter until he came to Ebeye. We captured his experience.

The Reese's Experience

Education Week -- Opening cermonies with all the schools on the island

Science Experiment -- Growing Alfalfa Sprouts

The kids liked the alfalfa sprouts :)

Science Experiment -- Invisible Ink

Emily picked up this baby mouse like it was her best friend. Gross.

I got to skype with my pal Esteban!

Fun at Kwaj

Ngedikes hearts Burger King.

Mangy, one of the dogs that hangs out with us, is about to have puppies. She looks like she’s going to pop. Hopefully by my next post, there will be little puppy pictures! :)

I love Puppy! She doesn't really look like a puppy anymore, but not giving her a name was our strategy for not getting attached. It didn't work.

P.S. Emily just caught a mouse with a cup. But then, what do you do with a mouse in a cup? We went with our gut and flushed it down the toilet.