No School For YOU!

We've experienced a bit of "government oversight" these past three days.

On Tuesday afternoon, a meeting was held at the school where we teach and the kids attend. In our "littles" Kindergarten classroom there were 6 kids out with cough or fever. Two of those six were our Brownie and Potato. We were told that there is a government regulation enforced this winter (due to H1N1) that if 5 children or 30% of a classroom's students are out sick (be it from fever, cough, runny nose, etc) that the classroom must observe a mandatory closure for 7 days! (When all the H kids are out...it could truly look like a pandemic!)

Though there are no confirmed cases of H1N1...Brownie and Potato's classroom met the "mandatory closure" clause...so, I've been home with them for the past three days. Bub, sadly is also sick with a fever and a nasty cough.

The older girls have had a touch of illness, but were well enough to go back to school on Friday to compete in the school's reciting competition.

(A note about competitions Here...to live is to compete...we are CONSTANTLY preparing for another competition!)

The girls each did a reciting competition yesterday. Next weekend I am taking nine of our students (we had 12 originally compete in a national English competition and 9 scored high enough in Round 1 to continue on to Round 2) to compete against all the other Round 2 participants (probably several hundred). I had to write a drama for our 9 students to act out and perform for the judges this next weekend.

The weekend after we have our huge Christmas extravaganza performance where I've choreographed dances for Grades 1-5 to perform in front a 1,000 or so people at our company. The kids will be singing and dancing...just like Broadway ;)...only Here in a cold building! I have been asked to perform with a troupe of 8 dancers (no I am not dancing) adorned in elaborate gowns while I sing a huge Chinese Aria called "I Love You China"...of course, in Chinese. Daddy is also not exempt from the efforts as he is a shepherd in the Nativity that will be performed that same night...he is PETRIFIED about remembering his lines in Chinese!

There are many other exciting items to tell that I'm limited to share...some really cool new partnerships underway as well as deepening of relationships and new doors opening to serve. Each day I am reminded that I am only the clay in the Potter's hands...and that I mold much more easily if I only acquiesce to His design for each moment.

Off to fix breakfast...Happy weekend everyone!