So it's been like a month since our last post (minus that one I posted moments ago about transportation). I'd like to say we've been super busy but...that's not really true. We've just been kind of lazy about posting stuff.
Work has been...interesting. It's the last term of the school year so the teachers seem to be all consumed with filling out term reports and finalizing assessment schedules. Tony and I have been hard at work cleaning up the computer lab - turns out our primary school had 40...yes 40!! NEW computers sitting there...unused...for 2 years! They also happened to have a $2000 projection screen and a giant Smart Board lying around. I'm guessing all of this awesome stuff came from the District or the Province or some other important branch of the educational system hierarchy that requires a capital letter. Unfortunately a bunch of awesome stuff is only awesome if somewhere in the giving process the giver informs the givee(s) of how to operate said awesome stuff. Apparently this very imperative step was overlooked, thus the reason why everything has been sitting in a room unused for 2 years. Fortunately we got most of the computers hooked up last week and the projection screen working earlier this week. We tested it out by hooking it up to the computer and our hard drive and watching Jurassic Park and Back to the Future on the computer room wall. So we're pretty sure it works.
In other news - -
-We have officially entered the rainy season. Insanely intense storms that sound like a million freight trains are about to run over your face have become a many times weekly occurence. As a result the power flashes on and off even more that it did before. Here's Tony venturing outside during one of these devil-storms:
And here's a creepy picture of lightening bolts we took from our rondeval:
-We may have accidentally gotten a dog.Meet Spots (aka Bagels):
Spots is our neighnor's dog. Unfortunately they're not home a lot and don't feed him much so we started feeding him and now he won't go away. It's okay though because we like him. :) We're also trying to change his name to Bagels (for obvious reasons) - so far it hasn't worked but it's still early in the process.
-No. We still haven't moved into our house. Why? I don't know...
-Ummmmmm. I think that's it.OH. People back home - friends, family - send us some books...please! We've run out and I recently sunk so low as to read a book called Jamaica Inn by a woman named Daphne Demaurier. I know it sounds like a gem...but it wasn't.
Tune in next time when I make an attempt at writing a semi-serious post about the conditions/population in our village.
Love you all, miss you!
Kim and Tony
i'm so proud you have a dog. try to bring it back when you move home. can i be it's god parent and/or aunt?/help with the middle name naming? i was thinking of benzo...bagels benzo longshore parise. please let me know at your earliest convenience.
ReplyDeletegod bless.
Thanks so much for updating. I was completely depressed this Halloween when I didn't get to see Tony. We did have one kid though that reminded me of him. He was dressed in a suit with his hair slicked back, but he was holding a box of fruit loops with an ax through it...Cereal Killer.
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