Swimming :-)

This week has gone fairly well. There were a couple rough days with the kids a school, but I am beginning to build relationships with them which is a lot of fun. One of them made me a paper snowflake and wrote "Ms. Sussiee" on it. Even though it was spelled wrong it was really sweet. A couple other girls come up to me at lunch and share their cookies and tell me their stories and secrets. It's pretty cool :-) The year 4 teacher is still not here yet, they say another 3 weeks or so. Therefore I will be helping TEACH year 4. Having never taught before in my life, I will need a lot of grace and patience. But I know it will be fine and I will have a lot of help with lesson plans and such. Tuesday afternoon we had a meeting. The group had been sent a care package for all of us to share. My roomies and I scored some mac and cheese and pasta, yummy. Wednesday evening one of my roomies and I had childcare duty at the school for a meeting. It went a lot better than expected. We ended up with 15 kids ranging in ages from 2 to 10. Today, Thursday, we finished up our school week and had another meeting. The highlight of the day was the fact that we got to go swimming at the meeting!!! Granted the girls had to swim fully clothed, but I was just grateful for the opportunity. It was a lot of fun. We played some fun games and got to be ourselves with no reservations (other than the bathing suit options of course ;-) ) After swimming we had a cookout. It was nice to eat the African version of a chili cheese dog, potato salad, cookies, watermelon, etc. Other the absurd amount of flies it felt like an American cookout. I look forward to relaxing the next two days and enjoying our free time. My throat is extremely sore and has been all day long. If you could remember that in your prayers it would be awesome. I think that's all for now. The next post may not be for a while because our internet is picky about when it feels like working :-)