October!!!!

Sorry about the delay in blogging, the month of October was nothing less than SUPER busy!
Everything has being going great with our new Project Discovery Center.We painted the two rooms PD colors and had the kids put their hand prints and signatures on one of the walls, SUPER COOL!!!!!!! Since finishing the painting, we moved some donated furniture and carpet in and bought some pillows, toys, and magazines! One room is used as a play/relax room and the other is for acadmics. I teach math classes with every kid in there on Tuesdays and Wednesdays and LeeAnn teaches English to some of them on random days.....it´s so cool! The kids love it and we do too. It´s a fun place to get away from the daily grind and the noise level in Peti!

I´ve started back up with teaching computer classes to the kids and that´s been going well too. Some of the kids are excelling quickly and others are learning the very basics of typing and using computers. To motivate them to come, I promised to make them American cheescake if they come to every session! Tomorrow is our last one, so hopefully everyone shows up so I have a reason to make cheescake. :)

The capoeira master came in the middle of the month to teach a course to our students. It was rainy that day, so not a lot of kids showed up (but the ones who did had a great time). He was a very good teacher and taught them a lot of new things. After the course, he invited me to visit him in Campo Largo(a city not too far from here) to practice more capoeira and get to know the work he does there. I decided to take advantage of this invite, so I went to a capoeira baptism in Curitiba last weekend and then stayed with him and his family until the following Wednesday. I had a lot of fun, did a lot of capoeira, and met some great people!

We are spending a lot of time, these days, planning for a field trip to the beach. It should be very fun; we are going to take 50 students and 20 adults to a nearby beach for a weekend! The only thing I´m not excited about is trying to choose 50 out of 90 students who deserve to go. :( But, I know God will help us make the right choices!

The most recent, exciting event, though, was LeeAnn´s birthday yesterday! Our little girl is growing up...the big 20! Katie and I took her out dancing on Friday and then to her favorite cafe for coffee yesterday. We, also, made a poster about the top reasons we love her! After that, we went to a friend´s farm with our English students to celebrate Halloween. They had a lot of fun activities including a scavenger hunt and slip ´n slide! I think she had an enjoyable and memorable day!

I´m sure there are other things I left out on this blog, but I don´t want to write everything, because I won´t have any stories to tell when we get home. :) We continuously pray for all of oyu at home and hope everything´s going well!

God bless...