Thanksgiving!

This is my "Official" Mercy Ships Academy Teacher Picture! haha!




Here's our Teaching Staff



Mercy Ships did an article on the Academy, and interviewed me and my class :) So heres a few pictures from that...






Academy Spirit Day! Twin Day!! Except my Twin (Danae) was bed ridden... she sprained her knee really bad! ...but thats okay, I stole one of her crutches and pasted her face on my shirt and ended up matching 2 of the other teachers, Tommy and Ben! Lol!



We were invited to the Presidential Palace (yes! ALL 400 of us!!!) for a Thank you dinner from the President himself! It was definately an experience! Im basically smack dab in the middle, towards the left... im waving ;) lol! jk!






We went to Porto Novo...a city not too far from Cotonou... and had fun taking pictures :) (this was a little while ago)






Heres's Hotel Du Lac! Its about 15 minute walk... to relaxation :)

Heres Danae and I at my FAVORITE resturant in the whole world!! Its a Thai place!! mmmm!!! (haha! i guess im not allergic to shrimp.... lol!)


What?! God you told me to bring my FLUTE?!! to AFRICA?!! haha! I dont know why I do these crazy things..but its been a blessing being able yo play! Ill get to play some Christmas Music soon too! :) that'll be fun! :)

My Birthday toys made it to Africa! and now are a tradition to bring to other birthdays!! hehe! fun fun fun!


SUPER SQUIRRELS!!!! We won best Costume!! haha!! We had the best Team Spirit too!! :D




What?! Again Lord, you want me to bring my BIKE?!! haha!! Its a wonderful way to get around town! ...except having to carry it down from Deck 8.....down to deck 5 and then 2 decks of gangway stairs... :) its fun though!



I love meeting the people, and being on this journey! Thank you Lord for Sending me! Thank you Lord for blessing me the way You so often do! I am thankful for what Your Son did, for me, for my students, for everyone!! I love You Lord! THANK YOU!


"Rejoice in the Lord Always, and again I say REJOICE" Phil. 4:4

November already?!

Danae and I at our 1st Open House!!

October has FLOWN by!! and We are in NOVEMBER now!! Wow!! I dont know what is more strange, that it is November, or that I am almost 1/4 of the way done with my commitment with Mercy Ships... at the end of December it will be 1/4 completed! crazy! Im still enjoying ship life and there always seems to be 1sts for so many things! Like my first Open House night! I have 2 blogs for you to check out! They have really neat articles about this night! It was SO fun!! The whole ship was invited into our classrooms, as our areas are not open to the public, because we are a full functioning school, and our students are not on "display" for people to just come and see all the time. But Open House night is different! It is a time to "show off" what the school is all about and what we do, what the students have been accomplishing, and to have some fun. My classes were very creative, as we created a contraption of some sort, combinging Newton's laws of motion, pulley systems, and even a little bit of chemical reaction! It was wonderful fun watching the students get excited during our practice runs throughout the week, and even more exciting when it came time to actually demonstrate it during the open house! we may have had a few blips...but that didnt matter! There were still a ton of people having fun and watching it with wide-eyes! :) It definately encouraged me! :) Check out the Blogs for pictures and for a little more story:

http://brianandwarrie.blogspot.com/2009/11/late-for-devos-and-academy-open-house.html
and
http://mercyshipadventure.blogspot.com/

well its getting pretty late... 3:14pm for Californians...and 12:14am Benin time! ...I have SO much more to tell you!! I will write very soon!! please pray for this upcoming week..its going to be VERY busy!! Thank you!!! I miss you and love you all!! :-D

Haley and I!

My student's contraption! ....it starts behind me!! (a pulley system) ....and ends in the sink! it was so much fun to see all my classes work come together as one project all together!