Week 6

Well here I am at the beginning of week 6.  The lessons are planned for Monday and after that there are only 2 more days to plan lessons for.  Thursday we will do activities and Friday is Graduation.  It has been quite an experience and the last week has just flown by.  We had a pretty good week in the class room.  Friday night was warm and dry and so instead of having a games evening we lit a fire in the campfire area and sang songs.

My Esperanza shoes - nothing fancy!


 Saturday was a dry day and many people headed into Tahsis.  I spent the morning in the classroom and then made some muffins.  A couple of us headed off for a walk in the afternoon and found some beautiful and peaceful spots by the water.  Whisper, one of the dogs, cam with us which is a good thing because she serves as an early warning system for cougars and bears.  While we were sitting on a dock she suddenly ran closer to the mountain and started barking loudly.  We don't know what she was barking at but it is good to know that if there were an amimal there, she scared it away. 


Whisper surveying her kingdom!


This picutre was taken on the way back from our walk and from her vantage point Whisper is looking out over Esperanza. 
Saturday evening was movie night but since the movie was a cartoon about people in the future fighting giant insects we decided there had to be a better alternative.  All we could come up with was a walk up to the compost area to empty our containers.  We stopped off at the dining hall and checked the walk in cooler to take any veggies that were past their "use by date",  We also found an open container of week old pancakes that now resembled little frisbees.  These are counted as "slop" and get thrown off the dock and throwing slop instantly draws a huge crowd of large seagulls.  So a new sport was born "Seagull Frisbee".  The rules are to throw your frisbee and try to hit a seagull with it.  We had about 10 each to throw and the final score was 0-0.  Over time can't happen for a week because it would require us to make more pancakes and let them get as hard!  We laughed at the gulls as they were trying to fly with the pancakes in their beaks or were fighting over them in the water.  It is amazing what fun you can have when there is no TV and no where else to go.  
Today was wet again but we had a good time in our service this morning.   This evening several young people who were visiting decided to jump of the dock even though it was cold and raining at the time.  I've seen this done on a hot summer's evening but today we were shivering just standing and watching.  I'm glad no one wanted me to try.
I'll probably do one more blog before I leave.  Thank you for following along.  I have really appreciated your interest and prayers.
Janet