Education Week

Last week was education week. On Tuesday our kids came back

from Easter Holiday. On Wednesday it was teacher's day so
all our Teachers were taken out for the afternoon and I was
too busy with the team and supervising all the students to
take pictures:)
Thursday we had speakers come in to share with the kids.

Pastor (I don't remember his name) came to have chapel
with our boys.
Tashi was sent from JAD (Jamaican Association for the Deaf)
to speak to our girls on "How to Become a Lady"
and "Self Control"

Rian Gayle was also sent from JAD to speak to our boys.
He had about 6 topics that he talked on. I know one
was "Self Control", and another was "Deaf Rights",
but I don't know the other topics.

On Friday it was Children's Day/Open Day

For Open Day Rachel taught the kids about cued speech
and the kids set up displays of their projects from this year.

these are the 4-H projects our kids made and won trophies
for at the last 4-H competition.

The kids then had a special afternoon of movies and ice cream
and were all given a small gift.
During this time I was busy running again and was not
able to get pictures:)

So Long Sony Cyber Shot

Thursday was a rainy day and so I had my umbrella with me
when I went down to hang out with my kiddos.
They had lots of fun with the umbrella....

until there was a big dispute about who got to
actually hold the umbrella

thus started the fussing....

and they ran the umbrella back to me.

The kids had been using my camera to document this all
as you can see from the great pictures of this post:)

They use my camera almost daily and they know to keep

the wrist strap on their wrists so they don't drop it.

so far the "keeping the wrist strap on the wrist so the
camera is not dropped" has worked great. I
was once more reminding Paris to be careful
with the camera as she switched it over to Wadia's care

Once Wadia took possession of the camera she
took this lovely picture above of one of the kids
pulling on my nose.
And as she turned to walk away she tripped over
someones legs and down she went with my camera on
her wrist.
My lesson learned it doesn't really matter if
the camera strap stays on the wrist of the kid
if the kid goes down with the camera:)
It was a good go almost 4 years and this is
the first busted camera!
And now that means I get to look for a new
point and shoot!
If you have one you just love let me know!

To all those Mothers out there that I love...
Happy Mothers Day!

Meet On To Victory Ministries!

This team was made of of people from South Dakota, and
Minnesota. They were a fun bunch of hard workers, and by
the end of the week I think they would be okay if they never
saw a bag of cement again. Through the week they did a lot
of demolition, filling and pouring concrete!

Great Job O.T.V.!

It need a go clicky clicky (said really fast and with a Jamaica accent)

This is what the car ends up looking like the last few
times I have tried to start it. I learned some cool tricks
with a screw driver and the battery to try and start it, and also
how to hit the starter to see if that works. When both of those
options stopped working I asked Mr. Lewis to take a look and
he fixed me up with a new battery.

After the car would start our next step was to get the
air conditioner fixed. Since we have been getting rain about daily
now its hard to drive without it because the windows fog up so bad.
So I would drive and get wet keeping the windows cracked so the
windshield would not fog up or I would drive and continually
need to be wiping a clear spot so I could see out the windshield
and drive. Once I informed Mr. Lewis of our next problem that
needed fixed he popped the hood and I started the car
while he looked under the hood. He then called me over and
informed me "dis ting here... it need a go clicky clicky when
yu start di car.... it na a go clicky clicky..."
(the above said quickly and with a Jamaican accent
you can try it at home if you like:)
He then looked at me for some kind of response and all
I could give him was "okay".
So that explains it the a.c. was not working because it
wasn't going clicky clicky:).

Thankfully Fitzroy (Mr.Lewis' contact to fix the a.c.) was
able to come up this morning and after a few hours of him
bending over backwards I came up the hill to the car running
and the a.c. working!

Praising Jesus for a working car!

Mid Morning Mango

YUM!

Welcome Mango Season:)

Friday Friday!

This was the result of my Friday which consisted of
sitting in a truck for about 16 hours as we drove
all over the island.
How I got this massive bruise.... I honestly don't know:)

Friday Morning Blake and I left Mandeville about
7 and drove to Mobay to distribute the sea container.
We made good time on the drive and they let us into port
with no problems. We sat beside our sea container for about
an hour then Chad arrived to inform us that after talking
to Maxwell (the guy who gets our paper work done at the
port), and Mr Gordon (our broker on the island) We were
not going to get the sea container today. We could sit by it for
as long as we like... we just couldn't open it and distribute the
contents inside:)
So we drove to Mobay for a lunch at Wendys!

Since we had the truck and Tashi had things to be moved,
from her mom's house in St. Elizabeth to their new apt.
in Kingston, we decided to surprise her and move her things.
From Mobay we headed to St. Elizabeth, and loaded up the truck
Jamaican style (I took lots of pictures... they were just all on
Blake's camera so I don't have them to post). After we were
loaded we prayed asking God for traveling mercies and
that everything would stay in the truck (Praise
Jesus they did!),then made our way to Kingston.
It was fun being able to surprise her:)

Thank You Jesus for days that don't go like we think
they will but are more wonderful because of the
doors you open for us!