Today was awesome! One of my favorite days so far.

So the church that is visiting this week brought a set of white boards, mini markers, and cute mini erasers! I was so thrilled. And the kids LOVE them! And it makes them so much more engaged during math time or whenever we use them, its awesome!

And today was Sephora's birthday and her mom made these amazing homemade cupcakes for us all, they were so so good.

And also the visitor in my classroom, Kathy, helped with doing a short reading test with my students so I can get a feel with how they are all doing with reading, so I'm really glad she was able to do that for me.

And then after school I got to go to La Coupe with Cindy, the church that is visiting here, and some of the senior boys and I loved going there. I loved it so much because there were just so many kids to play with and they all wanted to hold my hand and they are just too cute for words. :) And its crazy how many kids there were because the senior boys just went around the neighborhood for maybe 5 minutes to tell kids to come, and then there were literally like 50 kids in this tiny building ready to play and sing and learn about God. And the senior boys did church songs with them which was fun and then the church visiting did a little skit for them that was about Zacchaeus, it was cute, and one of the 12th graders translated it to Creole for the kids. And then we separated all the kids into two groups because there were so many and we played Simon says with them, it took them awhile to get it but towards the end they started to get better haha. And I just loved all the little kids, they just smile at you and want you to hold their hand, they're so sweet.

And I just felt so happy that I get to stay this time. Because I am always just here for a week and have to leave which makes it harder to build relationships with the people here. But this time I get to stay. This time I get to go see those kids again and hopefully learn more Creole soon so I can actually talk with them at some point. And I am so happy about that. I don't know how I will leave all the people here at the end of the year, but that's a long time away and right now I am just very glad to be here and so grateful to God that He gave me this opportunity.

And then yesterday I had my girls bible study. We did the SOAP thing (it stand for Scripture, Observation, Application, and Prayer) with Philippians 1 like we did at Flipt.  It was good, except I forgot to remind them to bring their bibles! So we just all chose the same verse to write, which was Philippians 1:21 "For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain" And then after that we just shared prayer requests with one another so we can pray for each other throughout the week. And then we made chocolate chip cookies and they turned out really good, they're good bakers! We made 30 cookies and they were gone in like 3 minutes haha

But I had fun with them, they are a sweet group of girls and I also showed them my room and the millions of photos of Atticus that I have hanging up haha They all thought he is so cute.

I'm excited for where this year takes us. Pray that we can always be Christ centered and honor Him through our time together.