Kenya Year 3 begins...

It's a new school year and we're already in the fourth week of school! August has come and gone, football season is so close we can taste it, and this Tuesday marked one month of being back in Kenya. 

Since I have started a new tradition in my classroom, the highlight of the day, I give you: 

The highlights of year three, month one....

• I am still loving my awesome classroom and new set of 20 students. Second grade is a wonderful age and this bunch of kiddos is keeping me on my toes. I already posted this on facebook, but one of them told me I sound like a cowboy. Another student was explain how I say "yall" at the dinner table. Bless their hearts! ;)
  
• Author visit from award winning author Eric Walters was so much fun for our school. He was funny, inspiring, and got the kids excited about reading and writing. 
  
  
  
  
  
• Lindsey and I are living with two new roommates! Abby and Xan are wonderful and from North Carolina, so there are even more YALLS over at the elementary school. I'm looking forward to many fun adventures and movie nights with these ladies!
• Covenant groups (discipleship small groups for youth) have started up again and we had an amazing first couple meetings. I'm so excited about the direction our girls want this group to go and look forward to digging deep. 
• The first adventure of the year was successful! My car, Roxie the Rav4, made it across town to the ostrich farm, over a terrible road, and back home to Gigiri. Morale had it's ups and downs, but the pictures we have are priceless!   
  
• A group of friends and I played trivia in Nairobi! I love trivia, so this was such a treat. However, there were lots of phones out...the Quizmaster wasn't such a stickler for phones away. We were 10th out of 15th. Not the best odds, but for a bunch of wazungu we did ok. 
• Dinners with friends in our community. We live and work within the same 40 acres, and at times I have felt trapped behind these walls. I do have to say that we have some pretty amazing friends on this campus. My roommates and I have had a handful of wonderful meals with our neighbors/friends/coworkers and it makes me so thankful that I get to be a part of this community. 

There are probably more highlights, but that's all I can think of at the moment. In fact, I'm off pretty soon to my first Fantasy Football draft. I have no clue what I'm jumping into, but I'm excited! 2015-2016 is off to a great, busy start!