Found on my SD card.
By: Sandy Echols
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My SD card is full again, so I was going through the pictures and found some interesting ones from the last few months. So how about another picture journey, it’s been a while!
Putting up art projects in art class.
Baboons in the street. I giggle every time I see a baboon. Funny looking animals!
A wildebeest on a safari with Mark. It just stood there, and then I accidentally dropped the door, the sound of the door slamming made it run away. Sad.
The kids doing a dance for the Easter Chapel service.
We found this little guy in our kitchen. Just look at all those eyes!!!
Yeah.
Always check your fork!
Look at the beautiful and intricate patterns on this grasshopper!
When we went on a camping trip this lizard hung out around the BBQ pit the whole time. It seemed really interested in the smores.
We found a turtle at the Hero’s Acre when Mark was here.
The kids wanted me to take a picture of all the blue cards they had. The kids earn blue cards by paying attention and doing well on their work. Red cards are for when kids need some motivation to move in the right direction.
Toasty feet at the camp fire. Keep in mind it is winter here, today was the shortest day of the year!
Please pray for the team arriving from NZ tomorrow. We are still running around at school. So many classes so many kids, and so few teachers!! The team arriving tomorrow will be helping with some classes, and they will also be working at Beautiful kids, our sister ministry.
So to recap, fun pictures, crazy busy, and prayer needed for a team visiting for two weeks!
Day of the African child.
By: Sandy Echols
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Has it really been ten days since my last update? Yikes!
Today is a public holiday, the day of the African child. So we are having some African children over, we are planning on playing games and just spending some time visiting with them. The boys that are coming over are in the seventh grade, that means that this is their last year at CHS. Only six months left of seeing them almost every day, this is an important time for the seventh graders!! One of the boys coming over has also expressed that he would like to become a Christian, so it is a great opportunity to disciple him a little more!
I also had my birthday this past weekend, it was a lovely day. I spent the morning shopping with Marye and later in the afternoon some people cam over for cake. It was very low key, I am still trying to get over the flu. But it was a fun day. Adam had all the kids in grade 2 make some birthday cards for me, it was great! I will post some pictures of my favorites 🙂
Andila’s card has an interesting “bite out” design. I think he used scissors, but he could also have just taken a bite out of it. The kids love to bite things, in fact Donevan’s desk has bite marks all over it. More interesting than that is the note that Andila wrote on the inside. We have an issue with Andila just looking around the room and just writing down whatever word he sees or that pops into his head. So here is his birthday message to me:
“From Andila: HAPPY BINTDAY Mrs. Echols. Grabe2 miss you Mrs. Echols feel back to Grabe 2 come will kind to day Mrs. Echols will just in to Love is Mrs. Echols and Jesus love you Mrs Echols Andila love you Mrs. Echols Saturday your happy bintday Mrs. Echol and nams of Grabe 2 classa nams and Andila and Jesus and God.
From Andila.”
I had to include Ladiwa’s beautiful cupcake card.
This card is from Otniel, a quirky smart little boy who really lives on his own little planet! His card warmed my heart, he talked about a day when we gave him a ride home, and he got to share his sister’s ice cream cone.
” I miss you and happy Birthday mirs Echols do you have a bad time or good time Thank you for your time t6hat you have ben bot me in your car and it was a good time. That Rosa came back to kids camp and eat ice cream in the car. It was vare good and you just make me happy i love you. Thank you.”
Revival’s card had a simple message: “Is from Revival.” Quick and to the point, and some brightly colored art work. Perfect for a birthday card, or should I say bintday card.
This card made me laugh and laugh and laugh. Shaun is a little boy who likes to day dream in class, sometimes it seems like he is actually asleep. There are times when he surprises me with facts that I gave to the class a while back, he really seems to like Science and Geography. Anyway this card is hilarious, as all is says is: “Shaun.” I think he spent most of his card making time drawing lines for a long message, and then he ran out of time. Too funny.
Please keep the kids in your thoughts and prayers, it is winter now and the mornings are freezing cold! We are doing well at CHS, forgive me for slacking in updates! 🙂
Quick update..
By: Sandy Echols
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In case you haven’t noticed, it is June, as in half of this year is gone! We are barreling through 2011, and racing towards 2012. It is true that the older one gets the quicker time goes by. I turn 28 in a few days, I think that is probably why I am surprised that it is already June again. There is not much to update on right now. I have been sick with a nasty bout of the flu. I have stayed home from school for 5 days now, and will stay home tomorrow. Hopefully I can kick this soon! Samantha, the Wright’s daughter is also sick with flu right now, pray that she gets better soon too.
At school it has been interesting, I have been off so Adam and other teaches have graciously filled my spot. As you know Jan was denied a work permit, and another teacher decided to take a post in Zimbabwe. If you are keeping score then you know we are hurting for staff right now. I don’t even know what the kids are thinking! David has been coming home from school exhausted, he has a lot of things to deal with as the school administrator.
This past weekend we were privileged to be able to “attend” and speak at three services at Pike’s Peak Christian Church. Mark who visited us a while back set it all up, we Skyped straight into the services! On Saturday night we got up at 2am, we think everything we said was coherent 🙂
It was a privilege. It is always amazing to see people who are invested in what we are doing here. We are so far away it would be easy to forget about us, but with PPCC we have never felt like that.
Keep us in your thoughts and prayers as our team gets over the flu of 2011 and as the school tries to find the right staff to fill the school’s need.