Interesting Story With Turtles

We have 3 turtles and 3 fish that live together in an aquarium. One day I went to the fridge to see if there was any food left. The food that we feed them here is frozen blood worms that are really small. They love it, they fight for it!! I went to the fridge and we were all out of food and so I went to the local aquarium store to get some more. Now I am just learning Indonesian and so I was unsure if everything would go smoothly. Now I bought the food and talked to the very nice lady at the store. Then I saw some beautiful fish, although extremely small. I bought 4 small fish and 2 that were medium size. I asked if the turtles could live in the same place as the small fish. "Bisa ikan cecil tinggal bersama-sama dengan kura-kura?" She replied "tidak apa-apa". Which means no problem. So I thought great I will put them right in. I put the little fish into the tank and the turtles took little time in devouring the four little fish. Then the turtles started to go after the other fish. WOW I now have more respect for the other 3 fish living in the aquarium. So we had to explain to Jalen and Kaya how things worked and that their new fish were now gone.

We are now done 8 days of school and feel as though our brains are growing with knowledge already. It is incredible how much you learn in 8 days. Now we are just trying to keep up with speaking to people and using the knowledge that we learn. Without use it leaves my brain extremely quickly.

Hope you are all having a great day. Talk to you again soon.

Jalen Begins School

Today was Jalen's first day of school. This morning we took the classic photo of him with his backpack on infront of the house and we were off. We drove our 100 cc motorbike to his school and met all of the other children. They were all standing in line to go into their classroom with their lunches and it looked so cute. All of a sudden out of the blue one of the children just started crying and crying. I told Janna after Jalen was gone that the experience was more emotional for me than for him. We are getting old, we now have a child in school. WOW!

Jalen is now at home from his first day of school and he is excited. He got to feed the pet guinea pig and he is pumped!! It is great to see him so excited about school. I know with my experience that stays with students right until grade 10 math! HA! Jalen goes to school from 7:45 am until 2:45 pm. Quite the day for a 4 year old.

Janna and I are doing fine and will keep you all updated on how we feel about Jalen in school. We feel like our house is getting set up and are now ready to really dig into the language. Talk to you all later.

We have begun School...

Well we have now been here a couple of weeks and we are into school. Learning the language for 4 hours per day in the classroom and then we are supposed to go and speak to people in the afternoon. So far so good, we are enjoying learning new words and the formal way to speak.

Jalen will start school next Tuesday and then we will be in the routine that we will have for the next year.

August 17th is Indonesian Independence day and so there is a party for the day. Every little kompung (section of the city) has a party and so we will see what we get to go to.

We are enjoying it here and feel like God is blessing our team as well. Thankyou so much for everything. Keep looking at our web site as we have put some pictures on it.

Bandung...

Well everyone we are in Bandung, the place where we will be doing language training. We arrived after a long, long, long trip. We spent one week in Papua and got all of the paperwork done for us to stay in the country. It was great to keep in contact with all of our friends out there. We are now living in Bandung, a huge city, and trying to get our house and Jalen's schooling in order before Janna and I start school.

Life here is interesting as we are really living amoung the people. It has been great getting to know people already. We are excited about what the Lord has in store for us here.

Friday August 11th is our orientation to language training.
Tuesday August 22nd Jalen starts school. Please pray for this! We have met his teacher and his principal and everything looks great for Jalen to start school this year.

Everyone keep in touch!