PICTURES

Here are some of the pictures I accidently erased the other day. I'll add more in another post. When the office got too crowded, we put a window in to join one room with the other. The room Gary now uses as the office was our room for English language teaching and for instrument practice. Now it's the Principal's Office. I originally wanted a larger window, I kept saying, "Don't make it look like a speak easy opening." So, they made it small but since Gary and Yvesner are happy with it and it gives them opportunity to communicate, it's fine. It's not my office!

We had to add Joe (our gate keeper) to the office as well. Yvesner could not keep up with copies and waiting on the children who come to get their tests. The routine is this: They come to the door, hand in their PACE, repeat their memory verse and Yvesner gives them their test to take back to their room and do. They come back with the completed graded test and get a new book. He was overrun with work because if you times this activity by 40 you have don't have a moment to spare. Also, Yvesner's job is to enter the test score into the computer. We copy books because we don't have enough of the originals to pass out. These two munchkins are posing on a toy my grand children sent to the mission.

They seemed to strike their pose the moment I raised the camera. Christie (left) just turned three, and Mary was 4 in September. They've had a very productive year with Bev but the greatest advance was Joel who is now talking. I spoke to you about Joel earlier as to his deficiency caused by malnutrition. Joel is five but he's far from five. The greatest advance for him in the pre-school room was his becoming a social creature who now communicates to the best of his ability rather than throwing tantrums and not saying any words. The three of them have become quite close as the girls now include Joel in their everyday learning rather than ignoring him.

Pastor Gary does not get to stay in his office, here he's getting the computer ready for Mr. Samuel's class to take their spelling tests. We have an interactive program to give their tests now rather than Samuel stuck with one child. Thanks to Family Harvest church we are able to do this, they donated six computers and all are in use.

The girls with the wash tubs are our machines. How would you like to wash by hand for six adults? They are troopers in getting the job done and we appreciate them so much. I can't imagine the labor but they do it with a good attitude, happy to have a job. This is our "back yard". Not much and all cement but at least we have a place for them to work and hang the clothes.

I'll close this out and do another one with more pictures. Thank you for checking us out!
Carolyn