End of September Already?

This week was 10x better than last week, just because of the fact that I'm feeling better.  (I have taken a break from roti because the curry was upsetting my stomach.)  I think my students are beginning to understand the routine of things and everything is coming together.

I also am getting into a routine both at home and at school.  On Tuesday, I had my first staff meeting after school.  It went 2 1/2 hours long and made Tuesday feel very long.  Tuesday night was also the first night of Sticky Group.  Sticky group is a smaller groups of people from church that get together to enjoy each others company, as well as take a deeper look into Sunday's mornings message.  While it got to be a late night, I am going to enjoy Tuesday nights at Pastor and Jen's.

Wednesday was the first day that my class had P.E.  While I do love my class, it was nice to be able to take a little bit of a breather when they headed outside to have P.E. with Coach.  I am looking forward to next week when most of our other special classes begin as well.  After school was our typical planning meeting and I was able to go home and finish off those plans for the following week. Wednesday night Jennifer brought us to the store to show us what she buys for food (particularly meat). From the meat that we bought, we were able to make chicken taco meat in the crockpot, as well as pork roast.  We are liking that we now have a source of protein in our diets. 

Thursday Pastor Tom came over to help me set up a U.S. IP address.  While this may seem like a silly thing to be excited over, it definitely made my day as I can now keep up with the television shows that I watch in the States.  We are also able to listen to Spotify and Pandora again, which means I can keep up to date on the latest songs in the States.  

Friday night was spent cleaning and relaxing.  We again had Scruffy (grade 3's turtle) for the weekend.  He has shell rot so Tanya has to keep an eye on him. For a turtle Scruffy is very entertaining and we don't mind having a "pet" around.  On Friday we took Scruffy outside for a walk.  We all went out and watched him on the porch.  On Saturday Scruffy went for another walk, but this time in the grass.  He tried to make a run for it and even made it through our neighbors fence before Tanya could catch him.  Sunday, Scruffy got out of his cage and climbed onto our keyboard. (He must've wanted to learn how to play.)   He is a very talented turtle and can just about get out of anything.  

Saturday we were very excited to spend some of our day shopping for Christmas presents, as well as go to the beach.  It has been awhile since we've made it to Reduit Beach and we were excited to go, relax, and cool off for the day.  

Sunday again was church and Abby played piano in the service along with the band.  It sounded lovely.  I sat in with the youngest Sunday School class, as in 2 weeks I will begin teaching Sunday School for them.  I am looking forward to being able to teach Bible Stories to children, as I haven't been able to do that yet this year.

This weekend I was so very thankful to be able to talk to some family and friends via Skype and Whatsapp.  They help keep me going.  Technology has made it very easy to live in a different country.  Over 2000 miles away from family and friends, but that distance seems minimal when I am able to communicate with the people that I miss in the states.  

I am very blessed to live here and I thank God for all the people He has put into my life both in the States and here that have made my transition easier.

Our pretty flowers tree

Scruffy goes on a walk.

Scruffy gets through the fence.

Island life!

The buildings are so colorful. I love it!