First week of school recap...

On one of the last days before we started back at school, we hosted an impromptu dinner with some current and former students after playing football (soccer) in the cage behind our apartment. Lot of fun sharing a meal with some great guys!

In order to increase useable classroom space I removed all the book shelves and storage in the student desk section of my class. Problem is, I am an English teacher...I need places to put books. Fortunately, our maintenance support staff at ICSV had some shelve units that they needed to hang...so they hung them in my classroom. You can see the finished bookshelves on the wall in the last picture of this post. The new shelves give me so much more shelf space that it makes the collection of books seem small!

First day of school!!!

Required "first day of school in front of the door as you head out" picture

Ready for another year...

Our school director "the Guv", and my friend and classroom-neighbor "Joe-verby"...(and a background "drop-in" by a student)

3/4s of the secondary school...Justin is all way in the front corner of the hall

Staff members leading worship and welcoming the students

Class of 2012 (the class we advise/sponsor) during our first homeroom of the year. Looks crazy...but we were able to get everything that we needed to accomplish covered.

Thanks to all of you who have been praying for the us and all the staff and students at ICSV. It is a huge encouragement and blessing to know that you hold this ministry up in prayer.

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and baby makes four...

that's right...our little family will soon become a foursome. We have found out that Rebecca is 6 weeks pregnant! There is definitely "something in the water" as all the families that live within our block have recently had a baby or are currently pregnant. Our baby will be the 6th baby born to ICSV staff in a span of less than a year (first one was born in early November and we will be welcoming our new addition in September). So, kind of unexpected, but a pleasant surprise nonetheless!

Fly on the wall and shipping possibilities

We left Gjakova yesterd to go to Pristina for the night before our flight back to Vienna today (Thursday)...but before we left, Berat invited us to join him at the Bethany Christian Services Community Center for an event as part of the USAid celebration of 15 year anniversary of providing development assistance in Kosovo. We helped Berat do some last minute set up stuff, but mostly, we just sat around waiting for the show to start. Maples and Faisal spent a lot of time with some of the young men and women who were waiting to present their vision to the USAid Executive Director. Soon, the delegation from USAid arrived and took a short tour of the center, in the middle of the tour, Berat took some time to introduce the Baseball camp to them...and then graciously introduced me. The delegation was surprised and excited to hear that there were some baseball opportunities. We spoke for a short while and it turns out that the Executive Director used to oversee the Denton Prog...

Who are these kids at ICSV...

Hi everyone... The first week and a half of school has been absolutely amazing! We have had some great opportunities to begin building lasting relationships with the students that God has brought to Vienna to be educated at the International Christian School of Vienna. Rebecca has been adjusting well to her role as secondary secretary. She is learning quickly the many demands of her new role and is doing quite well in supporting us teachers and the rest of the staff. Rebecca hard at work I have been really enjoying my classes. I have a total of 43 students spread out over 4 periods. The students I have represent 14 different home nations, with many of the students who are "Austrian" are first generation, so they are of other nationalities as well. I have also had the opportunity to begin working with the soccer team...again, many nationalities are represented on the field, truly an international squad. Here are some pictures of the team training at the local club...

Johnstein!

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