Spring Break

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During Spring Break, I really enjoyed the chance to spend some extra time with my friends and fellow teachers. The Saturday night before (I considered it the first day of spring break:), Betty and I decided we wanted to go to Asan Park Beach to watch the sunset. Watching the sunset has quickly become one of my favorite things to do. Besides the fact that they are soooo beautiful (even if they are covered up with clouds, you know they are beautiful on the other side), but they are such a reminder of God's goodness and faithfulness to me. When the time finally came to head out, we had a total of 10 people going with us. Not my normal size group to go watch the sunset with, but we had a really good time and I loved having everyone along. When we got there, we discovered that another group of our friends were having a cook out there to celebrate their daughter's second birthday! They saw us walking in the park and invited us to join...that's the Guam way (you can join any fiesta whether you know anyone or not if you just have a friendly personality:). So while they finished grilling the hot dogs, we serenaded them on our ukes and guitars.

Tuesday night a group of us went up to Top of the Mar (a restraunt at the top of one of our mountains here) to enjoy another of the Lord's beautiful sunsets while we ate our supper. By that point I was beginning to feel a bit sick due to the vog (volcanic fog blown down from a volcano that eruped on another island) and spent the rest of the week at home or next door in my classroom. I am so thankful that it was spring break and I had plenty of time to rest. It just makes me smile all over everytime I think of how good the Lord is to me!

What to do at the beach on a cold day

Reunion Tea Party!

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My girls from last year had a reunion tea party in November. It was a lot of fun for everyone. Unfortunately, I don't think I can do this every year as I had originally planned. But this particular class is special to me:) They are a great group of kids and my first class.

Jungle River on Guam

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Fish Eye Field Trip!

On February first, we took a field trip to Fish Eye Underwater Observatory. The kids really enjoyed looking around at all of the fish in the ocean and especially enjoyed the fish on the computer! Next, it was off to Asan Beach for a picnic and play time! Some of the kids chose to bring kites, other brought their balls. Eventually, all of the children ended up on the beach looking for duk duks (crabs) and seashells. We had a great day and at the end of the day, many of the kids were obviously warn out and ready for a little nap.

Sharks' Hole!

A Christmas Hike

This was the best snow I could find on Guam!:)

During Christmas Break Christina, Maggie, Masense, Patty, John, and I decided to hike up to Lao Lao Falls and Fintasi Falls. We reached Lao Lao falls first and a few of us decided to climb down the fall using the rope that was already there. Since I was the only one who wore shoes to climb down, I was the only one who had the privilege of crawling on my hands and knees through a tunnel of sward grass (mud path with sward grass walls and roof:)) to the other side of the fall. I thought the other side was much prettier and would be fun to try to climb up, but where it was wet, it was too slick and where it was dry, it was too crumbly so I had to find the tunnel and climb back up the way we came down.

After a quick rest and a bit of a snack, we were on our way again on to Fintasi Falls. We passed through a little banana and achote plantation on the way. Since it was the first time I had ever seen an achote plant, I just had to get a picture. As we walked on, we came to a place were there was absolutely nothing growing. I found out from our guide, Patty, that this was actually a volcano and that must be why all the vegetation (mostly dry sward grass) suddenly stopped. She guessed that the last time it erupted was before anyone began living on island. Once past the volcano, we could see Fintasi Falls in the distance. It was only a matter of time before we were all cooling off at the bottom of the falls. We all enjoyed the work out and the beauty the Lord has created here on Guam. What a privilege He has given us to enjoy His wonderful works! Hope you enjoy them, too!

After we finished our hike, Patty mentioned visiting Chief Dagao's cave which was on our way back home. Did she say a cave? It was more of a little crevice in the side of the cliff along the shore. As we walked on the corral at the foot of the cliff, water splashing up beside us, I nearly passed it by! But it did have ancient writing on the walls, which was pretty cool:) so we took a group picture inside:)

Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve we had one service at church and then Christina and I went to Pam's for lunch. We had a nice relaxing afternoon and then it was off to Mary's for a Christmas Eve party. We had a good time eating, chatting and of course watching the kids play:)

Mary's daughter, Lydia, played Santa Clause handing out the gifts to each of their guests.

Joel had a wonderful time tearing up all of the tissue and wrapping paper.

Cara Grace had fun playing with her new fish she got from Mary and Lydia.

Christina and I both had a nice time!

International Day

Friday September 22 was International Day at Harvest Chrsitian Academy. We as a school take a day each year to recognize the many different cultures represented by our student body. Many come dressed to represent their own heritage and some of us come as another. Our class enjoyed hearing a story set in the African jungles and making origami butterflies and frogs. Our half day at school ended with a cultural lunch with our parents in the classroom.