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...

discpleship training school a.k.a. dts...

This week is the orientation week of our DTS. There's not a speaker, just the staff explaining and sharing about things that we will be doing for the next three months. Such as small groups, local outreach, work duties. So it's a week full of info, but so far so good. Our students are kind of quiet right now but that's how it always is in the beginning. :-) Last night was our first 'family night'. Every Wednesday we, staff and students, will have dinner together and hang out afterwards. Last night, after din, we played Nertz. it's an ultra-fast card game. i love it! and my team won! woo-hoo! Afterwards we watch The Philadelphia Story - one of my favorite movies of all time!

This is one of our new students, Jordan. We come from the same home church, New Hope. We just happen to be wearing very similar outfits, so we took a picture...
This is our first 'family night' dinner. Yep, one big happy family...

This is a picture that i painted for rich and lynn. they really didn't bring any (hanging) pictures with them, so it's the first piece of art in their new home...