New Things

"Funny how the new things are the old things."

-Rudyard Kipling, in With the Night Mail

After a short romp through the Amazon, we have returned to Paramaribo to start out the second quarter of the school year.  Teaching's normal now, for both of us, and we think we're becoming abler with practice.  The rainy season is approaching, and cooler days (maybe even down to the low 80s!) smile at us from down the timeline.  As we become accustomed to life here, it's funny how much we still have to depend on God's grace.  The temptation is to be sure of ourselves; the call is to be sure of Him.  But that's no surprise, though, as Kipling points out, it is funny.

• Our three days in Brownsberg (the jungle mountain)included enjoying beautiful scenery, laughing at exotic animals like agoutis, small monkeys, howler baboons, harpy eagles, and taking lots of breaks.
• Parents have already responded to students' grades, and we've had plenty of opportunities to respond with gentleness, patience, and charity.  I guess we're really all just called to love our brother anyway, so it really is good, though difficult.
• Conner finally created a worksheet that looks like a worksheet, i.e. it's not all in 12 point, Times New Roman font and filled with short answer questions.
• Amy is running out of room on her wall to hang up the pictures and notes her students have made for her.