First Weekend

So on Sabbath we woke up and headed down to the children's Sabbath school which Ana has been teaching this year. The kids sang 2 songs for special music at church, so we practiced them at Sabbath school.I played my violin and Anita (another missionary lady) played guitar. We did God Is So Good and I Have Decided To Follow Jesus. The kids sang the last song in 4 languages: English, Arabic, Spanish, and Swahili, since there are a couple kids that know Spanish and Swahili here. It went great and everyone seemed to love it. There was communion after church which was really nice. Then Ana and I went to Pastor Llew's house for lunch. He's the president of the Egypt Field. He and his wife Karin started their 5 year term here about 10 months ago. They're from Scotland and are awesome people. A couple missionary people and families from Nile Union Academy were there too. We had a really nice lunch and everyone gave me a piece of advice for living here, and also taught me an Arabic word. After lunch we sat around talking for a nice while and then we had a really sincere prayer for Karin because her shoulder has been in so much pain lately that she can hardly work. So if you remember her in your prayers that would be appreciated a lot!

After I left their house I helped prepare for the preschool year-end party. Even though the preschool runs through the summer, Ana wanted to have a party because she's leaving the kids on Wednesday to go back to the states. The party was really fun. The kids sang the same 2 songs that were done for special music, and I played violin again. We ate this Egyptian food called kushari that was really yummy! Ana introduced me as the new preschool teacher, and then she had a little graduation for the kids. They wore these little blue grad hats made out of construction paper. They looked adorable. Then they showed a video of pictures from the year, and parents said some nice things about Ana and how much they would miss her. It was a great day all in all.

On Sunday I got up and went with Ana to exercise at the house of another missionary couple-Pastor Jim and Joyce. She went to their house to exercise most workdays this past year. We used a video and got a really good workout on all different areas of our bodies. Then we came back and worked in the preschool until it closed. Sundays are apparently quieter days in the preschool because not as many kids come since some go to church that day. We had 6 today I think, out of 9 who will be regulars this summer. One little boy came for the day but now it looks like he'll be here for the rest of the summer. His name is Omar and he's a pretty cool kid. After he was done his painting project today he came and asked if he could paint his teachers faces, so we ended up with rainbow faces. It was pretty cute. After preschool Ana showed and told me a lot of things I needed to know in order to run the preschool, and then later on we went to an evangelistic meeting in the church. Anyways that's all for this time...tune in again to hear more of my experiences!