Dogs and pics from school

Been noticing raw meat that is being sold now outside our building. Its laid out nice on a dirty metal table. People are buying, but not me. Then yesterday my helper came in and said, "Hey they are selling dog right out front!" She knew I would turn up my nose. She said it was expensive. I asked her if she ate dog and she said no, that she had had one as a pet before and couldn't bring herself to eat dog. AHHHH. I may not tell the kids.

Just finished finals week, which means thing will slow down here a bit. Or so I thought. . . Actually with Mark not having to get to class at 8am, he can take the bigs to school, so I don't have to bundle all of us and walk the 1/2 mile in the am. That has made life a lot more comfortable! Most of our student friends will go home for their big holiday. And our foreign friends will traipse of to tropical lands. Mark always finds things to keep him busy, like teaching next Sunday.

Ok, these are random thoughts. Its hard to remember that people other than grandparents are reading this, or that you don't know what my life is like. Blogging is still such a weird concept to me. Mark says it is because I'm old(ok he didn't actually say it that way, but I like to rephrase his comments and get him in trouble). The kids school finally gave me some pics. Enjoy. . .



Fire Station field trip in October.

Um, yes, this is the Christmas performance that the kids did, that the parents were not allowed to attend. They said, "parents make the children too excited". Hmm, not sure who they performed for, but this was the first I got to see my daughter with make up on. And, yes, those are boys beside her. Lets just say that Mark was overjoyed that Lawrence wouldn't participate in the first place, let alone let them put make up on him. I'm not sure we would have been able to go back if there would have been pictures of him with make up on!!


Caroline's drawing is improving!

I love this picture of Lawrence and Dodo. He likes her, and always wants to say goodbye to her when I pick the kids up. She is the cutest little thing too!

Um, yes, it looks like Santa even made an appearance.
Halloween. Isn't it crazy that the kids celebrate Amerian holidays more at their foreign school than in their American home?
Solo dance!!



Lawrence is finally drawing! He said this was a picture of the flood.
Ok, you have to admit that this is cute. . .