Peterson’s Blog Stardate 0911.05.214.03

Posted by Teresa. Daniel’s comments in italics.
2 weeks ago we embarked on embarked on a journey of stellar proportions. We were entrusted with the delicate mission of training young minds. I don’t know about your mission, but mine has been anything but “delicate.” AHEM. Anyway, we have been entrusted with this precious job and are taking it quite seriously. I show up for work every morning. Well, I am anyway. The students enter into the school building every morning, eager to have their minds fed with new knowledge. (HA!!!) Seriously, though, teaching has been hard work. We enjoy (most of) our students and have good days and bad days. It’s really nice to be working in the same building as Daniel. Our rooms are across the hall from each other, so we can glance at each other and smile during the day. I also get to hear Daniel cracking down on the 8th graders. (They’re a wild bunch) The most annoying problem about school so far is that we don’t yet have the books. They should be arriving this Tuesday. It will be very nice to have them. And save a lot of paper from photocopies. We are trying not to “take our job home” emotionally. We do, however, have to take it home physically in planning and grading. We still need a 1st grade teacher. Anyone interested? Seriously!
As far as non-school life goes (is there such a thing?), we still don’t have a phone! Sorry mom and dad. This also means that we can only get online at other people’s houses. We really want to keep in contact with you guys and be able to update our blog more often. It’s hard not getting homesick when we have little contact with people at home. :( We miss you!!!!! On a much more positive note, ND beat Michigan!!!!!
Anyway, we’ve have a good but long week. Wed-Sat there was a retreat at Escuela Caribe and we went for Wed, Fri, and Sat evenings. They invited us to join them and even fed us. It was a good time of worship and listening to some really good preaching from a youth pastor from Colorado (Aaron ___? ). On Saturday we went hiking in the morning. Today (Sunday) we’ve been relaxing. We also went to the store and decided to try some random food including canned sardines in tomato sauce; cassava bread; fig, coconut, candy stuff; and other stuff. We also saw that they have canned mussels, calamari, and shrimp. We’ll have to try it sometime- it’s our only real way of eating seafood in the mountains! But next weekend we’re going to the beach for Sat-Sun, so we’ll hopefully have some REAL seafood then.
Well, it’s still hot and sticky here. I’m already missing fall colors. Please send pictures of pretty trees changing colors! Hey, there goes the electricity… for the 3rd time today. (But at least that means it came on three times! And the water only went off a few times!)
Alrighty, hopefully we can find someone to let us use their computer to send this.
Signing off for now… from a galaxy far, far away…