Rain Mud Rain Wind Rain...

We´re getting well into our second project now and have been working a pretty long week! We´re up most mornings at quarter to 7 for breakfast at 7.15....and yes... it´s still porridge! Yum. We have devotions and team time from quarter to 8 and then at quarter to 9 we head off for school, work there until 12, go home for lunch, back to school for 2, work till 5... and then.... home for dinner and collapse for the evening!

And that´s pretty much every day! We´re still building the woodshed - which has been an interesting experience! A few conflicting ideas and a lot of rain has meant the progress has been a little slow! We´ve been rained off working outside about 3 days this week, and have worked inside instead, doing some painting and measuring up to build a load of shelves. All I can say is that I think my dad would be quite proud of the DIY skills I´ve picked up from him! :P Maybe I can help you with the house when I´m back dad ??? :P LOL!

We´ve also started working in the garden area outside and around the school. Rocky has taken charge of this as his area of expertise, and we have been doing lots and lots of digging, in the mud and rain, and slowly making progress with digging the ground and turning over the beds. We´re gonna build some raised flower beds to plant some non toxic plants and flowers in for the kids. The playground at the moment is so bland and boring that it´ll be nice to put a bit of colour in and some toys or something - like hopscotch on the floor etc.

The standard of living here is a big contrast to Santa Rosa, but also the area we live in and the area we work in has a big difference too. The kids at the school tend to have pretty basic clothes etc whereas a lot of the people we live near are wearing up to date fashion. It´s quite bizarre. It´s interesting to see how much people can be oblivious to what is coming on around them.

We´re living in an area with a lot of european influence and you can see that in the food. We´ve been round a couple of houses for seriously delicious food, like fondue and some other kinda french/swiss food with melted cheese in a tray... it was reeeeaal yummy. And a lot of people in this area are thinner and I haven´t seen a soppaipilla in weeks! Although I´m kinda glad about that tho!! The less fried food the better really!!!! LOL!

Ahhh yesss... and its getting so much colder here! It´s moving quickly into winter and temperatures are dropping like mad in the morning and in the evening. We´ve got a little ´estufa´ in our bedroom, which I managed to burn myself on the other day - bad times!! But it warms the room up well! :D

Well... I think that´s it for today! :) until next week :) x