some orientation...

As I stated in my last blog, this was the first week of our school. Orientation week. It mostly consists of info about the next three months; about small groups, local outreach, work duties, etc. It was a good week. There’s a lot of meetings and gatherings for both staff and students so that everyone can get to know each other. Actually, 4 out of our 5 students already knew each other. And the other student knew the Hodges. It’s kind of nice that there are already those connections because the first week is usually filled with (somewhat) awkward small talk. :-)

We had a little switch around during the first week. Originally, the single girl students were living in the housing above the school room, along with the married couple (also students). But the school house isn’t surrounded by the electric fence that surrounds the property. The school house does have an alarm but we decided that it might be better if the single girls move into the Hodges house and the single guys move into the school house. So we made the switch. Now Rich Hodge lives with 8 females. Poor guy… he-he!

for those of you that know me really well, you know how i like to play with my food. When i'm done eating, that is. Well, here's a beautiful dish all the way from south africa... :-)

This is our front yard. we have a bunch of lovely flowers...