1st Quarter is officially DONE!!

Wow, it is so crazy to think that we have been here for so long. The time has gone so fast, and yet it feels like we have been here forever. We have finally adjusted to most parts of living here. We have invested in more stabilizers so we can plug our lap tops in, in 2 rooms now! Before we hade to lug this huge box around. We also have gotten used to most of the streets, and don’t rely on the map as much! Still so many differences from small town Wisconsin. We are looking forward to restocking on all of our favorite foods when we get back in December. There so many things that are hard to find here or are really expensive!- tortilla chips! Many thanks as well to those that sent us pictures of fall…really helped! We printed off some and hung them up in our living room J

School has been keeping us really busy for the most part. We are going through accredidation, grades, and Matt is redoing the PE curriculum. Parent teacher conferences are next week so there always seems to be something. We have discovered the movie theater in the area. They have a discount night - on Wednesdays, so it is our new favorite thing to do after staff meetings.( last week was the first week but I think it will become a ritual) We have also been swimming a lot as the wet season is ending and it is getting very hot! We are so busy, but are also trying to find some time to do fun things. We bought a Norway puzzle and that has been taking up a lot of our time lately! Matt has become a victim of the " I will just put in 1 more piece " syndrom. Its quite hilarious.

We have also continued to go to the orphanage and it has been such an amazing experience. We feel like we are getting to know the kids there better, and we hope that we are filling there Saturday afternoons with love. It is so hard sometimes living here because we know how much more we have then those around us. We can’t help them all either…. We often pray that we are making a difference in the children that we teach. Many of them will be the future leaders of Nigeria, and we hope that they can make a bigger change than we can.

We will put some pictures up of a recent visit to the school electricians house, as well as from the orphanage!