Break time fun!

One fun break time activity is our temporary hair dye. Emily and I did this last year and we loved it. It makes us feel wild and crazy, even if we aren't. The dye only last for 8 washes and we only do streaks. Anyway, this year we got a few others involved. Here I am with Becky. Since our birthday was the next day, it was a must that she join in the fun.
Here Emily and I have roped a very hesitant Carmen in for some dye. I think she had fun eventually.

And my upstair's neighbor joined in the fun too. Pat came and got one strip of orangish-red in her hair.

Birthday Fun

My friend Kristen had a birthday and so we celebrated! We had a birthday brunch at my house. As with all good ladies gatherings in PNG, we started talking about food, ventured to other topics and came back to food. Usually this includes the food items we miss most from our home countries. We had lots of fun. Hopefully Kristen did too.

Back: Me, Michelle, LeAnna, Kristen, Joanie, Meredith.

Front: Rhesa, Becky

Almost a week later my friend Neil had his birhtday and so more celebrating was needed. Everyone had a great meal at the Mandarin followed by wonderful cheesecake that Becky had made.

Back: Emily, Karl, Kristen, Carmen, Joanie, Dana, Scott, Terri. Front: Me, Becky, Neil

Independence Day

September 16th is Papua New Guinea’s Independence Day. It is a pretty fun day around here. Our whole missionary community gathers together along with our national friends to celebrate. The morning begins with home-made doughnuts, the national anthem, and the flag raising. We have our own parade led by all the kids that want to decorate their bicycles. Each class in grades 7-12 runs booths of games and activities. The grade 11 students sell lunch and other snacks throughout the day. It is a great community day. This year I made the rounds to all the booths with my two great friends: Carmen and Emily. They are a bit more competitive and daring than I am, but I take the pictures

The Couch

Well I have a new couch. It came from America

so it was one of the longest deliveries on record,

but it got here is good condition and is just want I wanted.

It goes perfectly with my carpet and I like moving away from the all blue house I had.

So here I am with my new couch, happy as can be.

Thanks, Mom and Dad.

May Day

This morning my class had a great time assembling and delivering May Day Baskets. There is a bit of hesitancy in sending 25 kids all over the center without supervision, but they do great each year. They were so excited to deliver 26 baskets that I didn't want to stop them for a picture before they left. So we got our class picture afterwards. Aren't they a great looking bunch?

This might be a more realistic picture of their character.

The Chuck E Cheese Birthday

Pictures seemed to be uploading today so I thougth I would try to catch up on the blog. I mentioned on Facebook that we were having a Chuck E Cheese birthday party for my friend Emily. This happened on Apirl 19 to celebrate Em's Day on the 21st. Well here's the proof...

Emily and the kids that were at the party.

The pizza choices.

Guest...

Emily and the Hamamas Meri!

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Friday

I doubt anyone even checks my blog anymore since it has been forever since I have posted, but I thought I would try to get back in the habit. I rarely have anything too exciting to blog about, so I have to decided to blog about everyday things.

Yesterday was the beginning to our Medieval Festival stained-glass window making. Of course we make the "windows" out of construction paper, tissue paper and tape, but it is fun. Supervising 24 kids making these windows is a bit exhausting, but we survive.

My day ended with a 3 month belated birthday party for my grade 1 friend Emily. She turned 7 three months ago and decided to celebrate it yesterday. It was lots of fun.

Well I have tired to upload pictures for over a half an hour and nothing has uploaded. This is one of the joys of living in a 3rd world country. Mom suggested to send the pics to Brad and have him, upload them, but we'll see.