Solen skinner!

We've been pleasantly busy over the past few weeks. David is going through the learning curve for being a teacher. It's been quite the challenge for him, but also a lot of fun! He spends a lot of time in the evenings working on his lesson plans, marking papers, etc. I'm not sure if I mentioned, that he was hired because the previous teacher was fired. David found out that the man was fired because he didn't have the children up to par. In fact, it turns out that over a period of 2 months, he only brought the children through 6 pages of math. David brought them through three pages in one class. Think about it.... David really likes the kids and sees a lot of potential in them. He's constantly thinking about how to make the information interesting. At the least, he cracks some of his jokes which makes them role their eyes *hehe* Needless to say, he's become one of their favourite teachers.

We've been able to change our Danish classes so that we now have them on the same night. We're in different classes at different times, but at least we can see each other Tues and Thurs nights.

Here are a few miscellaneous pictures that I wanted to put up. The first is a picture of the sun at high noon. Solen skinner (the sun is shining) but it is really low for high noon. Being further north here, the sun does not climb up into the sky. It kind of creeps across instead. It is nighttime now by 4pm. This sun is not actually as big as it looks, but the colour, the brightness, the whiteness of the sun is indeed how it appears! The shadows are as if one was standing in front of a spotlight or car lights or something.....very white. It's really neat!




You gotta click on this next one and make it big. It's the little mermaid....ok, I kid you. This is a modern recreation of the mermaid. I think she's melting...or something. Perhaps the pressure of being "under the sea" was too much for her:)





Finally, a picture of a package of sticky putty...you know, the stuff used to put pictures on walls? It's often blue. This stuff is white. In "Tiger", our cheap-everything-is-made-in-china store, it's called Elefantsnot:) So, now I use elephant snot to put pictures on the wall *teehee*





Well, Christmas is coming. Dave wanted me to say that he will have 3 weeks off from the 22nd of Dec to the 11th of Jan. If ANYONE is interested in coming, you'd be welcome. We have room in our place for 2 adults (if you're willing to sleep in the same bed as whomever you come with). I'm free from the 22nd of Dec to the 5th of Jan, also.

Heather:)