Another day in Kaz!
Thursday, June 22nd
We had a quiet morning again but Garrett and I have the kids hooked on “kid flinging”. Garrett takes an arm and leg on the same side of course and I take the other side and we rock the kids incredibly high up in the air back and forth 3 times and toss them on the sofa. They love it! After one is thrown the other one throws themselves onto the floor with arms and legs in the air ready for flinging! We showed Brett and Karen what we do too. I’m not sure it was a good idea having witnesses and all but I don’t THINK they will use it against us!
At lunch Marina gave us the kids school records and Natalia was nice enough to come over and translate them for us. Sasha has completed the 5th grade and Stella the 2nd. This will be helpful when we have testing and decide on a school at home. Please pray for us as we prepare to pick a school that we choose the right one.
We moseyed over to the computer salon for a little eye/finger exercises with the computer games. What a workout. I tell you what when you exert that much energy in a hour you need some ice cream to recover! Luckily there is a store only steps away from the computer store so we can take care of that. They have moved away from the ice creams lately and prefer a lime or orange sorbet type thing on a stick. There is some fruit juice in their somewhere, right?
After dinner we got together with Brett, Karen and Marat at our place and the kids watched Shrek 2 in Russian. When the movie ended WWF II broke out and there was much tickling and wrestling going on. Marat is very ticklish too and Garrett says he is like a gator while being tickled because he goes into a big spin on the floor like a death roll. We all had a good laugh! Then it was getting late and the kids wanted to get their bed out so we said goodnight and got ready for bed. They built a mini fort with their heads covered and bundled under their arctic blankets with pj’s on and then said, “It’s hot!” I wonder why. We cranked the a/c in their room to a cool 19 degrees Celsius and headed off to our probably 30 degree Celsius room where praise God there is a fan! We miss a/c but are grateful we have what we have.
We miss home and are ready to see America again. God bless America, land that we love! It is bitter-sweet though because we have made many friends over here and it is sad to think we will more than likely never see them again. We will miss them all very much and hope to keep in touch with them in the future. Kazakhstan is in our heart to stay!!!
We had a quiet morning again but Garrett and I have the kids hooked on “kid flinging”. Garrett takes an arm and leg on the same side of course and I take the other side and we rock the kids incredibly high up in the air back and forth 3 times and toss them on the sofa. They love it! After one is thrown the other one throws themselves onto the floor with arms and legs in the air ready for flinging! We showed Brett and Karen what we do too. I’m not sure it was a good idea having witnesses and all but I don’t THINK they will use it against us!
At lunch Marina gave us the kids school records and Natalia was nice enough to come over and translate them for us. Sasha has completed the 5th grade and Stella the 2nd. This will be helpful when we have testing and decide on a school at home. Please pray for us as we prepare to pick a school that we choose the right one.
We moseyed over to the computer salon for a little eye/finger exercises with the computer games. What a workout. I tell you what when you exert that much energy in a hour you need some ice cream to recover! Luckily there is a store only steps away from the computer store so we can take care of that. They have moved away from the ice creams lately and prefer a lime or orange sorbet type thing on a stick. There is some fruit juice in their somewhere, right?
After dinner we got together with Brett, Karen and Marat at our place and the kids watched Shrek 2 in Russian. When the movie ended WWF II broke out and there was much tickling and wrestling going on. Marat is very ticklish too and Garrett says he is like a gator while being tickled because he goes into a big spin on the floor like a death roll. We all had a good laugh! Then it was getting late and the kids wanted to get their bed out so we said goodnight and got ready for bed. They built a mini fort with their heads covered and bundled under their arctic blankets with pj’s on and then said, “It’s hot!” I wonder why. We cranked the a/c in their room to a cool 19 degrees Celsius and headed off to our probably 30 degree Celsius room where praise God there is a fan! We miss a/c but are grateful we have what we have.
We miss home and are ready to see America again. God bless America, land that we love! It is bitter-sweet though because we have made many friends over here and it is sad to think we will more than likely never see them again. We will miss them all very much and hope to keep in touch with them in the future. Kazakhstan is in our heart to stay!!!
posted by Princeton the Poodle @ 1:26 AM
1 Comments:
At 5:13 PM,
Anonymous said…
Hey! Loved catching up on all the stories of the week while Rebekah and I were away. We had a great mission trip! Time is drawing near for yall to finally return home! We are so excited!!!! We are praying your final days there are awesome and every detail works out perfectly! We love you!
David, Connie, Rebekah, Caleb, Kaitlin
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