It was sunny when we left the village at 6 am, but started to rain in Dnepro when we were eating breakfast. The Crawfords said it started raining when they were going through the police check.
By midday it was pouring rain outside the building we teach in. The road in front was flooding over the curbs, Garry said when he went out to look.
He was relieved to talk to Max later that day when he found out that they had finished combining on Sunday night. The wheat would not spoil or get mildewed in the field. Our loads are still getting graded #2, and they are loading trucks night and day from the storage shed. They will keep some for the people who get goods instead of cash for rent, and sell the rest. The price will be as good as it will be for months, right now it will keep going down because they will be harvesting the fields north of us.
The sunflowers will be ready to combine in a month and they will need to store some of those in the building. In the village we got six-tenths of an inch of rain Monday and a little Tuesday night around midnight, so they are not baling straw again today.
There are over 200 students between adults and youth at SEI this year.
Garry is enjoying teaching his tedtalk class with discussion with the theme of success.
He did have an exciting start to his day Tuesday when we realized as we got to the institute that his computer bag with all his materials had been left in the village. He made a very fast trip home to get it and was only ten minutes late for his first class. We'll be very careful to check every morning that we have everything now!
I am teaching youth classes with Stacy Dantsev and having fun with 12 to 15 year olds. We were doing an exercise where one student would describe a photo in a magazine while another drew on the chalkboard that they really enjoyed yesterday.
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