Thank you PVMC!

On Thursday, August 27, my class arrived at school to a surprise...Pleasant View Mennonite Church sent a package of school supplies to us! During Bible School in July the children at PVMC raised money for school supplies to send to us and we are extremely thankful. You can find some supplies here but the quality is not always very good and there is no variety. So the markers, crayons, colored pencils, erasers, and stickers are going to be very helpful. We are very excited about the writing pencils because we have yet to find pencils with erasers on the end (one thing we always took for granted in the states, pencils that come with erasers!). Besides the glitter...the favorite item pulled out of the box was the Crayola markers! In fact we used the markers as soon as we could get them opened! The kids were also fascinated with the cool pencil grips and the erasers that go on the end of the pencils. We are going to have a ton of First Grade Fun with the supplies that you sent...Thank you!



















My class consists of eight students; three are from Korea, one from Australia, one from England, and three from the states (unfortunately there are only 7 in this picture, one student had not arrived from Korea yet). Of those from the states one just moved to Salatiga from Oklahoma! What are the odds of that? The majority of my students are MK's (missionary kids), and their parents are studying at the language school which is located at the edge of Mountainview's property. The student population is made up of MK's, BK's (business kids, their parents have found employment here on Java so that their children can attend an American school without having to move to the states. Salatiga is a much cheaper place to live than the US.) and teachers children (which are MK's). It makes teaching interesting when your students are world travelers at the age of 6. They have seen parts of the world that I have only read about in books or seen on tv. There is one thing that I can promise about this year, with these students class will definitely not be boring!

Thank you PVMC for sending us supplies to help us learn in class!