A Wild Week

Wow! Last week was unbelieveable. On Monday, we welcomed our 4 new German students and tried to get them settled in to our routine. We called back to the US to thank our friends at LCA for the wonderful new computers we purchased thanks to them. They are great! The kids were sooooooo excited. What a difference it has made already with our classes. We also found out that a student had come down with a very high fever (104) in the night and was going to the hospital that a.m. The results were highly contagious; she was put in quarantine for 7 days. On Wed. the next student came down with it. Wed. afternoon a huge storm hit right at MS/elem. lunch period. The rain was so heavy we could hardly see and it was coming from every direction. Power went out (as it did 3 more times during the week) and it got really dark. I rescued the elem. kids from the dining hall with my one very large Georgia umbrella (thanks Rick and Kim), the HS girls were screaming with every crack of thunder and lightening, and MS just made a run for it getting soaked. The classrooms were a mess since we have only screens. We shoved everything to the middle and waited it out. I ended up taking 3 kids home that afternoon b/c dad could not get into town. I had a meeting with another parent shortly thereafter. We canceled prayer meeting due to the sickness, the trees that fell and we were busy with clean up.

Next day, another student and a part-time teacher got sick. I canceled school for Friday and told everyone to stay home and get rested. Another student down on Saturday with fever. Victoria and I felt kinda yukky over the weekend, but we heeded the advice of the school administrator (I heard she is smart :) ) and rested. We were fine by Monday--PTL!

Other than that...it is pretty boring here. Thanks for your prayers.