It was an exciting day today! ... well wait, lets begin with what yesterday brought us. We got to spend time with the youth group of Freedom in Christ. We are studying a video series with them called "Keep Climbing," and yesterday marked the first of a four part series. At the end of the study, we played a fun game where different groups needed to come up with as many songs as possible with the word "love" in it, then they needed to sing some lyrics from the song and the group with the most original songs won...let me tell you Filipinos love to sing!!!
We also said "goodbye" to Jones and Ben, they are now living in an apartment in Lutopan or what we affectionately refer to as "Topes". Two bachelors living together in a small one room concrete apartment with only facilities for bucket showers...hmmmm should be interesting to hear some of the stories they will have at the end of this trip.
Today! We opened Shofar Learning up to the public for an open house. Those who are interested in sending their children to Shofar were able to come in, meet the teachers and aids as well as view 2 different presentations. One presentation spoke about the ins and outs of the school, such as curriculum, 
what is provided and what is expected etc. The other presentation demonstrated the Rosetta Stone software that teaches the children both English and Tagalog. They also were able to view Google Earth on the big flat-screen TV as well as the new digital microscopes...they were able to magnify a dead bee and some different plants.
It was great to talk with parents and the children in my broken Cebuano and their broken (but better than my Cebuano) English.
what is provided and what is expected etc. The other presentation demonstrated the Rosetta Stone software that teaches the children both English and Tagalog. They also were able to view Google Earth on the big flat-screen TV as well as the new digital microscopes...they were able to magnify a dead bee and some different plants.
It was great to talk with parents and the children in my broken Cebuano and their broken (but better than my Cebuano) English. 
After all of that we were treated to some fan bananas...OK, so if you never had these, you need to try them. They are amazing!!! They take bananas, cut them so they fan out, dip them in batter, fry them and then coat them in sugar...DELICIOUS!!!
At the end of the day the guys continued to work on the CR's and study for the youth camp we will be having this upcoming Thursday, Friday and Saturday...pray for us!!!!With love from the Philippines!
Andrea
11 comments:
Hi gang! Sounds like the open house was awesome! We are praying and praying some more for decent youth camp weather so the tent can be set up..
Can't wait to hear stories from Topes Jones and Ben :)
Andrea! Miss ya, Lady. Thanks for the update...I wonder if Jones and Ben will get "homesick" - like, for Shofar! Oh well, they'll live :)
Hope the trip is going well for you! Love you,
Carrie
Cool! I will pray for you guys! Fried bananas sound good!!
Okay, my brain is not automatically translating CRs. Help a sister out? What does this mean? It appears that I SHOULD know....
Thanks for keeping us updated, guys! You are missed, and at the same time it is exciting to see what God will do over this hill with you!!
Love to you all,
Amanda B
i will pray for you guys too (Destiny and Graham) love you!!!!!
Glad the open house went well! When do new students enroll and test? It's warm storm weather here hoping we are getting all the storms and rain so the tent can b set up!
~hartung
how many people came to the open house? What kind of reaction did people have?
CR = Comfort Room = Bathroom (not sure if you wanted the last equals sign but it's there just the same :) )
I dont know the exact amount of people that came to the open house...all I know is that we were FULL...and the school is looking like it is going to be full as well, lots of parents were really interested and very impressed!!!
CR- Also known as cry room
You are such an inspiration and what amazing work!! we miss you and hope to see you soon.
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