The Finish of Week 3

Just finished my third week of teaching.  I figured out how to post grades this week and I am finally learning the schedule.  (There is one schedule for M,W,F and a different one for T,Th and then my classes rotate every other day according to Blue/Yellow days.)  I love teaching the Book of John; however, when you have 8 classes of the same thing, you have to be very dilligent to make sure that you are telling each class the exact same things and that you cover the same amount of material each day. 

I went shopping on Thursday night with one of the staff to Holland Village.  She showed me where our uniform shop was and where there were some shops that I may want to go back to at another time. 

The high school had a swing dance Friday night and the boys had to wear pants, a nice shirt, a belt and nice shoes.  Micah decided to go and it was the first time he has worn pants since we have been here.  He has been doing activitites with other students and finding his way home ok! 

The dress code at our school is simple and it is funny how that is really a non-issue.  If you saw all of the other options that students wear all over the city, I think you would see how ours are great!!  My goal next week is to just take pictures of uniforms all over the city and post the pictures for you all to see. 

Today, our Saturday was a most interesting day.  I found a local wildlife reserve by our house (3 blocks away) called Bukit Batok Nature Park  that had a WWII memorial for the Japanese.  After roaming  through that we decided to go find the monkeys so we walked to Bukit Timah Nature Park and did the summit walk.  It was so cool to be going through the rainforest.  We definitely got our exercise for the day.  We will be posting the pictures, so be looking for them.  We headed out after our hike, and caught a bus just to see where we would go.  We ended up at Little India, had some great Indian food and went to see Mustafas, a famous shopping place around here.  Imagine a huge department store with stuff from floor to ceiling and every space used!  We then caught the train to a bus stop and headed home.  Now mind you, I was thinking about an hour hike and we left at 9:30 and came home around 3:15.  Yes, I am officially worn out!!  Easy evening tonight!

We will visit another church in the morning and have lunch at Chilis with one of the teachers from our
school. 

Please continue to pray for us when you think of us!  If you want to come visit we will wear you out too!!

Marta