Ready to go!

Seth and Jonah are packed and ready to go after a busy weekend. Friday and Saturday they finished their last tests for math and chemistry. This evening they are finishing packing- and hopefully finishing cleaning the room. We are leaving at 4 am to drive to Kiev- they fly out to Germany- Toronto- and finally Winnipeg- hopefully the make all the connections and are there when their sister arrives at the airport to pick them up.

Seth finished off his English program on the computer too. One of his last projects was the writing a poem assignment for the poetry section. Jonah wrote his a couple weeks ago:


Thunder

It roars like lions and blasts like cannons
It shatters the airs and quivers the ground
before it arrives, lightning lights up the heavens
God's trumpeter that blows with mighty sound



here's Seth's ---

Writing a Poem

Listen to my woes
That I fail to write
The simplest of poems
So I work all night




This morning we were off to church with our load of milk, and the boys.





After church we had been invited to have lunch at the apartment of a couple from church- they have a baby daughter 10 months old. Garry tried to make friends by crawling on the floor with her. We had a lovely time, and delicious food, but had to rush off so I could help with the tests for people to qualify for the Summer English Institute at three o'clock.






(our friend Tonya had been invited to lunch to translate and came to write the test too- she's one of the many English teachers we know) Today 31 people wrote the test- last week we had two sittings for 53 people. Two more weeks of testing- the Institute will run for three weeks starting July 11.

While I was busy the guys headed to the park- they rented a paddleboat, checked out the baby swans (they say that they couldn't get close to them- and Jonah was the best at steering the boat.) Seth and Jonah also tried out the "hamster ball" where you get inside the plastic ball then they inflate it and you try to stand up and move it by running inside the ball. Apparently the guy running the "ride" thought Jonah might be too big- Garry says they had a height limit, that was maybe the problem- he says Jonah was under the weight limit, the guy keep saying something they didn't understand, but he got to try it anyway. They had a fun time hanging out with Dad before they head home to work and hang out with their big brothers on the farm.

Just trace amounts of rain since yesterday's real rain, it would be lovely to find it very wet outside when we head out at 4 am (don't worry it won't be dark at this time of year!)