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Saturday, November 7, 2009

happenings of late

The past two weeks have definately been the craziest since we've moved to Indonesia.

It began a couple weeks ago with an event at school called "Fun Day". This event is hosted by the elementary/middle school, and is just like a fall festival but geared towards the familys of the Indonesians that work at the international school. My 6th graders were running two booths "The Dunkin' Booth" and "Bucket of Worms". We had a rotation, so everyone had their chance in the dunking booth. Bucket of worms was an idea I borrowed and revamped from Crossroads Baptist Church's youth group. It's a bucket of green spaghetti noodles with mushrooms, sardines, and squashed tomato. Inside the bucket are pingpong balls with numbers on them. You reach your hand in, pull out a pingpong ball, and the number on the ball equals the amount of candy you get. I think I realized that any booth next to the dunking booth will most likely go unnoticed. **Pictures coming soon.

After that, we had an indoor soccer game. I have been coaching the highschool girls "B" team. We focus on our skills and train to prepare for playing on the "A" team. We have played three games, and our record is 1-1-1. Not too shabby. The girls work so hard, are teachable, and take what we learn in practice and apply it to the games. It's great to see them being rewarded for working so hard in practice. **Photos coming soon.

Right after our first futsol game, I went to a ladies retreat that was opened to all the ladies in the community. It was great for me, who is still fairly new, to meet a variety of ladies serving in a variety of ways throughout this community. The theme was "Princess Warriors". We have to play both roles and fight for those that are important to us.

We headed straight into a normal week of school following the retreat. Friday we had another game, and Saturday was moving day. We had been living in a temporary housing situationn, because right now, permanent/long term housing is difficult to find. Some of our friends had to return home because of an unknown illness that our friend had been fighting for a few months. So we moved last weekend to the other side of town. It only took one day with the help of my amazing pilot husband who is skilled at loading cargo, some friends that brought an extra vehicle, the highschool junior that lived next door to us who helped with the heavy stuff, and our previous househelper who came and cleaned the empty house. This house really had me worried. Our friends had a running count of how many rats they had caught in their house since they had moved in (which was less than a year I believe). They were past the 40 mark. So I have been waiting, worrying, fretting, and feeling many other emotions towards these rats, but so far we've had no rats. I hope it stays this way.

That same Saturday, Josh and I were asked to "chaperone" Sadie Hawkins. This is where the girls ask the guys, always a surpise... you know the song :) It's a costume party with food, games, and fun. The directors asked me to dress up the day before. So we threw something together Saturday, while we were moving. We decided to go as surfers. When we arrive, I notice that no other sponsors had dressed up! I served as a judge along with two others. Josh helped back in the kitchen washing dishes with fellow parents and chaperones. The theme was "Runway" and not where airplanes land. The students had designed a catwalk that each couple would walk down to display their costumes. The judges got to "walk the catwalk" in a very special way... we danced down the catwalk. It was probably one of the most ridiculous things I've done in a while, but everyone was having a blast. Pictures did make it to facebook. :)





Josh has been in the plane a few times a week with the training pilot. We had plane that was owned by the police crash in the mountains here. Our pilots were asked to help with the search and rescue. Unfortunately, it was just a search and no rescue. All four passengers were dead. This past Friday, Josh had his check flight with an Indonesian examiner. It was about a 30 minute flight. The results should allow him to apply for his Indoesian pilot's license. He is continuing to help in the accounting department by managing the daily flight records.

This weekend we are relaxing. I can't believe I just said that. We haven't had days to sleep in and lay around in a couple weeks. We love and miss you and our families. We are soooooo thankful for internet that allows us to keep up with our family and friends.
 
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