A few notes on the school--Abigail is the main teacher and Hildah is the assistant. In January, we have two American teachers coming to volunteer and oversee the entire school. The children in the school right now are Caedmon, Cambree, Laurie, Machila, and Purity (ages range from 4-6). After April, we will be getting 8 orphans at New Day who will join that class. We are using American curriculum (a variety) and starting the kids with basic preschool/Kindergarten levels. They will go half day, from 8:30am to lunch. They are all so excited to start school!
Meanwhile, Blu is still working on plumbing (his nemesis). We have also started the Wilcox house. It feels completely different from when we built our house because now we are here every day, we know what materials to buy and where to find them, and we know the Zambian workers very well (who to hire and who not to hire!) It will be fun to watch their house go up!
Until next week's update, thanks for praying!
The foundation of the Wilcox house all dug
Getting crushed stones ready to go in the foundation
Pouring the footings
One of our 3 bookshelves in the classroom!!! Thanks to FBC Bartlett, FBC Bangs, and Mrs. Dianna and the Alvarado Public Library for so many books for our classroom!! The funny thing is that most of the books are from the 80s, which is my childhood, so as I pulled out books, I was yelling, "Freckle Juice!!!!!" "Beezus & Ramona!!!" The Zambian girls were like, "what is a freckle??" :)
Abby and Hildah getting posters ready for the classroom
1 comment:
Wow! There is a lot of progress happening down by you! I am glad that you are starting school and saw that Caedmon will be in there too...is that the end of homeschooling?
Very exciting to see pics of Wes and Laurie's house.
Stay encouraged...God is for you...who can be against!!
We're packing up and heading out next week. 5 months went by sooo fast!
Love you guys--Carrie
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