A Stormy Week

It seems like it has been rainy/storming a lot lately. I am not complaining because I LOVE Storms. I think they are very relaxing. The rain can get a little old but... once again I have no complaints because it helps so many. Since it has been rainy/stormy I have had Ample time to get stuff done around the house for example this weekend I....

Put together my Ikea bookshelf/bed frame/under the bed storage...

(O' the possibilities, and now hopefully momma is now happy my mattress are no longer on the floor)
Put up my 2 Christmas decorations my lights and...

My Tree

I know it seems early but I have only a month here to enjoy them and get use out of them. and since they don't have thanksgiving down here I don't feel As bad getting them up so early.

Here comes the rain!

Have a great afternoon. I love you. Be blessed and be a blessing

Erin

The Heavens are Praising

One Massive Birthday Party

Yeserday (Friday the 14th) we here at CCCD KP had the birthday Party for Aug-Nov Birthdays.

From what I have gathered this is supposed to be a monthly/trimonthly accurance that with everyones business has been not happening as planned so I got the opportunity to get it started again! Because it had been so long since we have had a birthday party here everyone was invited all staff and students.(I'm sure you can just IMAGINE the Chaos)

The food prep class was in charge of making the cakes, then Charity (one of the Goshen girls) used her cake decorating skills to both teach the food prep a lesson on how to decorate cakes, and make the cakes for the party look really nice. Hilary, Charity, and Michelle, (Goshen girls) along with Herbert (dorm father) trying to get all the candles lit.
Up front we had a boys side and a girls side. we all counted to 3 then at the same time the boys and girls both blew out the candles. This is the boys celebrating the blowing out of the candles. Michelle (another one of our Goshen girls) is holding the cake.

As many girls as possible gathering close to blow out the candles. Jen (who is holding the cake) is a visitor that has been staying with us for a while. She is here helping Marc with some work.

Little miss Paris Guthrie celebrating her 4th birthday.

After cake and ice cream it was on to games. The little kids played pin the tail on the pig (that's what we have here on our farm) While Charity and Hilary (Goshen Girls) helped. The Goshen girls were in charge or games and did a great job.

The group picture of all the birthday kiddos except Allesha Edwards who fooled the kids into believing her birthday was in Nov. when it really in Jan. so she could be in the picture and try to get a gift bag. ( she is a very sneaky little girl) We had 44 students birthdays to celebrate but only 35 where here at the party.

Have a great weekend. I love you.

Be blessed and be a blessing

Erin

I Have Been...

Introducing the Woodford County Journal (WCJ) to the people of Jamaica. My mom sent the papers down on the sea container and ever since the kids and I have been enjoying them.

Catching up on the news with my Tuesday morning library class

(non of them read 3/4 don't have a language yet so... we just looked at pictures)

Brittania saw me caring around my stack of papers and asked if she could look at them

so I took a break and we went through some papers together

We had some time left after taking notes in my "Milk" class so the class caught up with the happenings around Woodford county

My class enjoying the WCJ

Then of course I had to join in on the "Fun" since I had taken all these pictures of my kids and the paper I sent them to my sister with the request that she picks one to send to the paper. (If you don't know or have never read the WCJ there is a small area where pictures are put in of people all over the World with their WCJ). And then of course if the picture goes in the paper I get my free WCJ mug! you can't beat that.

Be blessed and be a blessing

Erin

An Observation

If you look closely this bottle (like many U.S. products in the grocery) has a large label on it that says U.S.A. product for Export Only. This gets me thinking what short cuts and things are they leaving out of these products that wouldn't pass in the American market? I guess its nothing to severe since its now been over a year and after eating lots of food for export only I am still alive and well. Have a great week. I love you

Be blessed and be a blessing

Erin

Sea Container

Sunday Night Chad and I drove into MoBay so we would be ready bright and early to start distributing the sea container... then we got the call that we would not be able to get the sea container on Monday so we...

Hung out at the MoBay campus with all the rain there was a huge build up at the lowest point of the campus and it knocked down about an 80' solid piece of block wall foundation and all. God is truly POWERFUL!
Since we didn't have the sea container Monday we went visiting. First we went to the Falmoth infirmary and this man was cutting down the bread fruit tree with a machete.

The bread fruit that was then picked up to be cooked

The residents watching as they cut down the tree.

Finally Tuesday afternoon we got our passes and were able to collect our sea container

Unloading and Reloading trucks to make our first delivery in the rain.

It was brought to my attention that I was standing in a puddle and that it was very quickly getting deeper.

Our first delivery at St. James Infirmary

My friends who always greet me with a hug and a hello when I go to visit the infirmary.

Once we unloaded at St. James and loaded up again we were off to Hopewell and Pastor Bucknor's home

Unloading the truck in Hopewell. This was a challenging delivery as you can see the first level was at the top of the truck. there were lots of steps to go up to put the donations away.

Ron chatting with Pastor Bucknor

Once we delivered Hopewells we were off to Brother Bob's New Beginnings

Dropping off supplies at New Beginnings

I praise God for allowing me this experience. I met some great people and had some fantastic conversations. But after a week in Hot Mobay I am very thankful to be back home in cool cool Mandeville. Have a great weekend. I love you

Be blessed and be a blessing

Erin

What Does It Mean?

Because I have such an AMAZING social life. I am sitting here spending my Friday night grading papers. I'm so confused. I have egg cookery projects to grade for my milk class (last semester was on eggs) For this project they were to find 6 egg recipes and supply pictures for those recipes. I am trying to grade them but when I get recipes like this

4 oz macaroni

salted water

4 hard boiled eggs

3/4 lb runner beans

I pint cheese sauce

Z oz grated cheese

Cook the macaroni and salted Water until tender, then drain well. Slice the eggs serving some for garnish put alternate layers of macaroni, sliced egg and cooked beans in a firesprinkle with cheese for about 20 minutes, till heated through and well browned on top. Garnish with sieved egg yolk sliced egg white and runner beans.

How am I supposed to grade these when I don't even understand what they say? Any suggestions?

I LOVE being a teacher!

Have a great weekend. I love you

Blessings

Erin