OASIS IS OPEN!
Today we opened OASIS officially for
business for 2012. Karly and I got up kind of early today to finish a few things we did not have time to finish doing early this week. All we had to do was make a few more packets for the kids that had rules and other important things they needed.
After we had finished making packets we headed over to the Oasis building. We got there earlier than the kids so we could organize each of our room's. Karly's teaches the older kids so she needed to get more books and teaching supplies. I am in charge of the young kids. All I had to do was get puzzles and write down the date and bible verse of the day in spanish. Which is not easy for me because I do not know spanish. I am learning though. It is easy to write spanish because the letters are the same but as I write it I am trying to remember what words mean what. That way I can learn the verse as well as the kids.
(The picture above is a picture of my classroom.)
The children started showing up and came wandering toward me asking me my name and wanting me to play with them. This little girl's name with my sunglasses on is Nancy and she is extremely sweet. She is eleven and loved my sunglasses, just like manuel did. She is in Karly's class but her little sister Mimi is in my class and she is just as cute and fun to be with. Nancy was helping me with my spanish and remembering everyone's names. She kept pointing and quizzing me on everyone's name. She also learned the word tickle in english. In spanish it is cosquillas. She tried to tickle me under my arms.
(The picture above is the little girl, Nancy)
Once everyone arrived Karly and I started each of our classes. Since I do not know how to speak spanish I have people to help me teach the class. I organize all the material for what is being taught to the kids for the day and they help translate it to the kids. They are amazing people and without them it would be so much harder. Reagan is a senior in high school and knows spanish and english. She is the main person who teaches the class. She helped Oasis last year so she knows a lot of the kids still. Her little brother, Ezekiel, who is in the eighth grade has decided to also help to. He also knows spanish and english. He was helping Oscar all day with his home work today. Which is great because the more one on one time these kids get the better they respond and do better on the homework. Oscar is an amazing kid and is kinda my favorite boy of them all right now but all the kids were amazing and so much fun.
(The above picture is Oscar studying his homework.)
These women in the picture are the women who helped me and Karly all week with organizing and preparing for Oasis. It would have been impossible without them. This week they cleaned all of the building to make nice a clean for when the children arrived for opening day. They also made a grocery list and went grocery shopping with me and Karly. Today they made tuna, macaroni, and corn mixed together on a tortilla. It was delicious, and I never have liked tuna; so it was really good. These women are employees of Oasis and get paid each week for helping. They cook all the meals for the children and clean all the building each time for the kids. The Oasis Program can really use your help with paying these women. If you decide you want to help or may know someone in church that would want to they would only be paying for just one of the women. There are five different women who help us. If you would like to support and help pay these women for what they are doing please email me or send me a message on facebook and we can talk more.
(The cook's)
Short term prayer request:
-Helping me learn Spanish
-There is girl in the church who just had a baby. She is fine but pray to keep them both healthy.
-Me and Karly are still a little sick.
Long term prayer request:
-Always need more helpers and the more people who come and teach at Oasis the more kids can join. Which allows more opportunity's to share Jesus's name with them.
(I am keeping count of how many tortillas' I eat and in a week 12)
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