It's over

Well SEI is over for another year. As normal I was so busy it was hard to find time to write a post!

One of my classes this past week

Garry did make it in to Dnepro on Tuesday this last week, he was our special guest speaker in assembly. We have a short time of singing praise songs in English with a message half way through each teaching day. Its optional for the students to attend, but is when we can talk about Jesus during our three weeks of English teaching. Garry and I plan to teach a follow up class that will be a Bible study this fall, and  if as many people come as have signed up to get an email when we start, we will overflow the room on Patona.

Since I last wrote, Garry was on local television from Zaporosia on July 21st, showing some of the students in our program in the village. I was hoping to have a translation for you of the piece, but none yet, so here is a link to it on youtube-  Hope for Each on Zaporosia TV News.  We were on at 18:44 minutes into the half hour news program (so skip ahead to that point to see it), before the stories about dogs!

 You can see some of the students making jam at our house and over at the barn and a couple of them talk about the program- and Garry with translation. You can see Garry's new translator Nellya standing near him in the program- of course I was off to Dnepro to teach English that day!

That same evening we had the SEI team out for dinner in the village, I think they all enjoyed seeing the countryside. We couldn't find it on TV that night but someone found the link to see it. I am told they did not translate everything Garry says, but we did have someone contact us about our program. We still have three girls staying at out house while we are finding new group home parents for the girls house, so it can be louder than normal here.

The guys have been busy getting straw baled and are getting ready to start green-chopping corn to add to the feed mix for the cows. It was a hot week but we got rain on Wednesday when thunderstorms moved through the area and a bit more this morning. This should keep the corn growing so they won't need to start cutting it for silage yet. It was also help the sunflower yield as the heads are staring to bend down because they are filling with seed already!

I am spending the weekend doing all (or most of) the things I haven't got done in the last three weeks before heading home Wednesday from Kiev to hold our new grandson, his brother and all his cousins  for a couple weeks! Garry has a ticket to join me in a couple weeks when his parents are scheduled to visit Manitoba.

Garry and our friend Clay, who was teaching with me at SEI; are on their annual trip to the sea. Like last year, they are visiting the Sea of Azov. We really miss going to Crimea and the Black Sea, to the prettiest place on earth, Alupka and walking through the gardens there with the sea on one side and the mountain in the background.