Its Christmas time and the programs have begun, last night was our language school program. The kids sang "We wish you a Merry Christmas" in English and Indonesian. They were pretty cute! After that party we had our family Christmas and it was alot of fun. We are heading to the beach for Christmas in a couple of days and then we are moving.
The beach will be a great time and hopefully we will be busy enough to forget that we are not with our family over Christmas. The kids are looking forward to it and it should be fun. Hopefully I can be surfing on Christmas day.
Other things are going okay, there is still lots of culture shock for the kids as they find it difficult when people talk to them in a different language. We also are adjusting to the differences here compared to Papua. We really thought that we would not have as many problems with the culture as we have had. We continue to rely on God for everything. Praise the Lord.
Friday, December 15, 2006
Saturday, December 09, 2006
December NO SNOW......
December and NO SNOW!! Incredible to be experiencing this once again. Talking to people at home and reading emails it sounds as though Canada is having quite the weather this year. Although it is hard to believe a part of us misses the snow because we miss family and the great things that the kids can do in the snow.
We are currently in the middle of rainy season here and have a huge rain everyday. It is something to get stuck in a tropical downpour on a motorbike. There have been a couple of times already that we are shopping and we have to wait for long periods of time before we get back on the motorbike. During this Christmas season we are missing home and hope that everyone back home is doing well. The holiday seasons are always the most difficult, so everyone who is interested can watch some NFL football for me over the holidays.
Jalen had his Christmas program and man was in cute. Nothing like having a child in Kindergarten and watching him perform in the Christmas play. Janna and I enjoyed it alot. Jalen sang two songs and it was neat to see him singing, getting poked in the back by his friend, fooling around way too much. Kaya also goes to school three times a week and has been adjusting to this. She is going to an Indonesian playschool and sometimes does not understand and gets frustrated. The teachers also speak english and so they will speak english to her when she does not understand.
Our Christmas plans are to go to the beach with all the other MAF families. We have rented some 4 bedroom houses right beside the beach. So hopefully that will get us not thinking about home as much. Then we get back after a week there and move all our stuff to a new house. The house here is experiencing some electrical difficulties and so we will be moving into another house. We are looking forward to it although it is going to be more work. After Christmas we are going to be busy with company and continuing school. After Christmas Janna will be in Unit 7 of 9 and I will be starting 6 of 9. We are looking forward to the holidays.
Have a great Christmas season.
We are currently in the middle of rainy season here and have a huge rain everyday. It is something to get stuck in a tropical downpour on a motorbike. There have been a couple of times already that we are shopping and we have to wait for long periods of time before we get back on the motorbike. During this Christmas season we are missing home and hope that everyone back home is doing well. The holiday seasons are always the most difficult, so everyone who is interested can watch some NFL football for me over the holidays.
Jalen had his Christmas program and man was in cute. Nothing like having a child in Kindergarten and watching him perform in the Christmas play. Janna and I enjoyed it alot. Jalen sang two songs and it was neat to see him singing, getting poked in the back by his friend, fooling around way too much. Kaya also goes to school three times a week and has been adjusting to this. She is going to an Indonesian playschool and sometimes does not understand and gets frustrated. The teachers also speak english and so they will speak english to her when she does not understand.
Our Christmas plans are to go to the beach with all the other MAF families. We have rented some 4 bedroom houses right beside the beach. So hopefully that will get us not thinking about home as much. Then we get back after a week there and move all our stuff to a new house. The house here is experiencing some electrical difficulties and so we will be moving into another house. We are looking forward to it although it is going to be more work. After Christmas we are going to be busy with company and continuing school. After Christmas Janna will be in Unit 7 of 9 and I will be starting 6 of 9. We are looking forward to the holidays.
Have a great Christmas season.
Sunday, November 26, 2006
30 for 10 days....
I have now been 30 for 10 days and my body is already breaking down. My knee is almost better and the foot that I scraped driving my motorbike is also healing nicely. Janna and I are now in units 5 and 4 of 9 that we are required to complete. We feel that things are progressing nicely with the language.
Bandung is in rainy season right now which means that it rains everyday, which is great for the people here. The only real problem with it is that motorbikes are our main mode of transportation and it can get a bit cold when you are all wet. Yesterday our whole family was on the motorbike and we got caught at one of the malls here and it just started pouring. So we were stuck. Good adventures!! The kids have been so good.
Right now we are wondering what to do with Kaya in school. The school that Kaya attends is an Indonesian school that trys to be academic, but she is 3. So I am just wondering if this is good at this age or if Kaya could benefit more from an actual play school. We will see what happens.
Another decision that we are trying to make is one of moving. The electricity in our house breaks the breaker constantly and so it is getting so annoying. Janna really wants it fixed but that would cost some money that we do not have and so our neighbours are heading to Papua in December and our landlord said that we could just move to their house. So we are considering this option. It is a bigger house with less electrical problems and will be better when we have company.
Please continue to pray for us as we consider all the options and try to make good family decisions.
Bandung is in rainy season right now which means that it rains everyday, which is great for the people here. The only real problem with it is that motorbikes are our main mode of transportation and it can get a bit cold when you are all wet. Yesterday our whole family was on the motorbike and we got caught at one of the malls here and it just started pouring. So we were stuck. Good adventures!! The kids have been so good.
Right now we are wondering what to do with Kaya in school. The school that Kaya attends is an Indonesian school that trys to be academic, but she is 3. So I am just wondering if this is good at this age or if Kaya could benefit more from an actual play school. We will see what happens.
Another decision that we are trying to make is one of moving. The electricity in our house breaks the breaker constantly and so it is getting so annoying. Janna really wants it fixed but that would cost some money that we do not have and so our neighbours are heading to Papua in December and our landlord said that we could just move to their house. So we are considering this option. It is a bigger house with less electrical problems and will be better when we have company.
Please continue to pray for us as we consider all the options and try to make good family decisions.
Tuesday, November 07, 2006
Life goes on...
Sunday afternoons there are guys who play basketball at the school that Jalen attends. This past Sunday I was playing and an old bball injury came back to haunt me. I went to transfer my weight to change directions and sure enough my knee popped out of place. Now for those of you who know me you know that this is not uncommon. It just reminded me that we are in the Lord's hands with our safety.
I must admit that driving a motorbike is a bit more difficult when you can not bend your knee but it does still work.
School continues to fly. We continue to feel that we are learning lots and are glad that we are here learning the language. Janna is a unit where she has to give presentations in Indonesian and next week I am sharing about how God led us to Indonesia in front of everyone. So we feel that things are going well.
Thank you for your continued support.
I must admit that driving a motorbike is a bit more difficult when you can not bend your knee but it does still work.
School continues to fly. We continue to feel that we are learning lots and are glad that we are here learning the language. Janna is a unit where she has to give presentations in Indonesian and next week I am sharing about how God led us to Indonesia in front of everyone. So we feel that things are going well.
Thank you for your continued support.
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