Monday, December 14, 2009

November Update

For some reason my blog site is not allowing me to copy and paste my newsletter onto the blog so I have attached a link to my facebook note with the update. http://www.facebook.com/note.php?created&&suggest&note_id=236489489151

Here are some pictures from the month that I wanted to share...
All of the kids we had during our VBS

Doing a drama called The Family

Ready for some clowning around
Our school at the Mayan ruins

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

National Pride Day

Every Wednesday we have a theme day to try to spice up our DTS. We have had some pretty good ones so far like Disney Character Day where I was Pocahontas, Bible Character Day where I was Elizabeth and one of my friends was Mary, and Super Hero Day where I dressed up as a "Super Chapina".

A few weeks ago we had a very clever day- National Pride Day- and since there are 6 nations represented in our school everyone dressed in their national colors. I must admit, I had a hard time choosing between the faithful red, white, and blue and my new favorite light blue and white. I had just got a shirt the weekend before that talks about being Guatemalan so I decided that I would go with the Guatemalan colors this time. This is a picture of my friend, Janina from Germany, and I

Then later that morning when we got to class we had a little surprise waiting for us... one of our leaders had found all of our national anthems online and we each got a turn to sing them!!!

Canada was first...
Followed by Germany...

Then Puerto Rico...


Mexico...


And Guatemala

I sang loud and proud along with my other United States citizens and after we sang, without even planning it, we all shouted "play ball!" It was a great day and a great reminder that God is using people from all over the world to do His will here on the earth.