The days are slow but the weeks fly by...

It just blows my mind how fast the weeks are going! Only one week left in January...I can definitely see my relationship with my students changing. Now that we're comfortable with each other and know what to expect from the other, classwork seems to go smoother and I find myself laughing with them a lot more.

I could definitely see Satan at work on our campus this week. Monday morning we received news that one of the sophomores had drowned the previous week. I didn't actually know who he was, but it was still tragic news! Apparently he had gone on an outer island fishing trip with a couple of his friends. I don't know if they got caught in a storm or what but their boat got destroyed by waves, and then they got swept out to sea for 3 days holding on to debris. I guess on the third day Marsh Marsh just put his head down and died before they washed up on shore and were rescued.
A couple days later one of Kara's kids (Ryan) came in in the morning talking excitedly to his classmates and pointing to a bruise on his arm. He said Satan had come into his room the night before and pulled back his covers and attacked him! He said he had big horns and then he followed him to school. Kara said she felt like there was a presence in the room like a pressure on her chest. Of course the other 2nd graders were scared so she reassured them that they could pray in the name of Jesus and it would scare Satan away.
If you could please keep Marsh Marsh's mother and two friends and Kara's student Ryan in your prayers they really need it.

Last Sabbath we met 2 doctors that are here from the states to do training at the hospital. Dr. Hewes is a radiologist and Dr. Price is a sonography professor at Kettering. We went and heard a couple of their lectures. Then on Thursday Jon and I went during my PE/recess to try and see a lung biopsy. But of course...island time prevented it. But they did show us some ultrasound (kinda boring). As we're walking into this tiny room poor Jon trips over the cord to the machine and yanks it out of the socket! HAHAHAHA! They had to restart and everything...luckily it wasn't an actual patient.

I'm off to work!