This is me and my ramblings...

Dear Friends and Family,

Hello from Grenada!! Yup, I am still here! lol The decision was pretty hard and after I felt that God wanted me to stay another year. I was tested a lot the last part of the school year with some staff issues that came up and made it hard for me to be ok with staying, But I learned a lot through it all. And i can gratefully say that all of that is pretty much in our past...

There is a lot of changes around here this year. I came back to an empty house. All the staff girls last year that I was with are all home now teaching school, getting married in two weeks, and getting adjusted into living with their own families in the States. So I am the only staff girl here in Laborie. The first two weeks before school started were probable the funnest but also the hardest. I got to change the house around any way I saw fit but i also was sitting around alone with no one to help me or talk to so that was really hard and I shed a few tears but I got through it. Once school started I had plenty to do ..and people to talk to.The thing I prolly miss the most though is not having anyone to rant or stress giggle with after school and weekends use to be full of it because sometimes teaching school isn't for the faint of heart and you need a person to bounce ideas off, check to see if you handled a situation correctly, or just listen to you and, of course giggle with to release stress! But being the homebody and introvert that I am living by myself is good for me because I get to relax and catch my breath before the next event.
Here is the Limes and LaBorie mission teacher staff this year.
LtoR Derik (from LB), Drew (LB), Me, Austin (LM), Rhonda (LM), Ryan (LB), Andrea (LM), Brent (LM)

This summer at 'home' was a blast! I don't know what to call home anymore. I was in Idaho with friends for two weeks and then I went to Montana to be with my family for almost 2 weeks before going to PA for a week and then back 'home' to Grenada. So it was a fast blur of nostalgia, woodsy smells and fresh air and then open spaces, fixing up the house my family is moving into, and then hanging with Stacy and a cabin and four wheeler and campfires. Here are a few pictures to show case my fast amazing summer in the States.

overlooking the river in Idaho. down below a lake that is a few miles away from the house we use to live in...needed some quite time to process some stuff.

my gang Olivia, me, and Kristi

Stacy came to visit me in Idaho

took her to the swinging bridge

tried to take her up a mountain but.......

four wheeling one day on the back roads and mountain behind the house that I use to call home......that road and mountain holds a lot of memories for me!!

now in Montana a bookshelf plant shelf my sibling and I made for mom

gate into the pasture at our new place

got to peek into my chest full of all my books..... !!!!

in PA we went jeeping a few times!!

a green house cafe I begged Stacy to take me to.
Got to see Katrina and Kayla that day as well!

we got to spent an afternoon together!!!

cabin weekend! and all the ex-Grenadians...except Ryan, Derik, and I

had a blast, blasting through the woods....

got to see a bear!! or bears.....it was two bear cubs.

morning prep for breakfast

Anyway that was my holiday. School started Sep. 5th and i got 7 crazy, fun kids 3 girls and 4 boys. They are a lot of fun. They love hugs, learn fast and are in general pretty good kids. And each of them have an amazing personality that is so fun to watch! And I can't believe we are over half way through the first trimester!! Cue school pictures!!

LtoR Aprel, Shachri, Selena, Camdyn, Josiah, Teja, Anton

art project to help learn the days of creation

fun loving

second grade drawings

art class drawling pandas

child month march

turkeys we made for Thanksgiving....we have thanksgiving earlier
down here.

project we did to help learn about different animals habitats.

As I said before living down here this year is different. But will no other missionary girls to hang out with I find myself interacting with my Grenadian friends more. Which is good! Some highlights are having a sleep over, getting food and going up to the fort to watch the sunset, hanging out and exploring on church picnics, and hanging out at my house....as you can see!

Shivani, me, Twila, and Ramona

hanging out under a bridge

my grenadian Squad
Ramona, Twila, Me, Ranisha, Zippy

celebrating Ramona's birthday with pizza down in Grand anse!
Kenisha, Yvonne, me, Ramona, Twila, and Shivani

three of the girls are 6th graders in our school and I have Bible study with them after school every Monday. The other girl is a younger sister that hangs out till we are finished

my co-workers Ramona, and Shivani this was the week before school we had a week of teacher training.

I realized I never introduced Twila (although she is in lot of the pictures above) ....she was down here for 6 months to help Josh and Barb after they had their baby Greyson. She was a real blessing and it was nice to have another girl down here for a while. But she went home a week ago.

We went to the end of the airport one evening and got to watch two planes come in.

tried to do a panorama.....

sunset we got to witness while waiting for the planes.

Thanks so much for all you who support me as i live down here. Whether is is through prayer or money. I value each one of you and your friendship even though i don't often get around to saying it. Hope to hear from you and have a good evening!

Goodnight Everyone!

Well just 2 more weeks till it Easter Vacation! I would have to say that I am ready for that. Not to mention that I have two friends coming the 20th...so ya lets just get there.

School has been going good though. We only are having a 12 week trimester so its going pretty fast, but we have been pretty busy this Trimester.... don't get me wrong! We have had a trip to Carriacou a neighboring Island, a lot of half birthdays (for those who we can not celebrate on the appropriate date because it is on school holiday)and one? real birthday, then there is cross country were we have mile or so run for the little kids and 3 mile run for the older kids. I have thought I don't know what would happen if this would start to happen in American school....because I'm sure it would be consider terrible. But most of our kids do good! Feb. 7rd is Independence Day for Grenada so we all dress up in the colors (red,green, and yellow) for the day. And this year we went down to Limes for a oil down and a talk from two men on Grenada history and the good 'ol days. Then there was Sports day which was pretty good. We got done around 4, 4:30 which was nice since we were having a week long crusade with Pastor Jim (who use to live in Grenada. but you can tell he still has a heart for the people here) We had it up in the LaBorie pasture. Which was a cool location. There is a lot of drug activity that goes on in that area as well as gambling. So it was amazing that we could let the gospel go out to these people. It was a good week. Keep praying that the truth would still be working on people up there though. Just now like next Friday we are having our field trip which will prolly be hiking, and then the Friday after that (which is the last day of school before Easter brake) is kite day! And i am sure most of the kids will love that. Its kinda an annual thing around here, since kite making and flying is such a big thing.

Anyway I thought it was high time for another update. I would have to admit though that living here is part of my life so its hard to think of things to write about. I guess I will show pictures and if i feel the need there will be captions...
Independence day!