New School Photos!

A very special thanks to Northstar Vineyard and the Weller family for their generous contributions that made our new school possible! Here are a few pictures from the first day in the new school...I'll post some next week with all our Christmas decorations up!

If you are interested in donating anything for the new school, we have a wish list! Please e-mail me if you think you, your company, or church would be willing to sponsor one of our needs!

katie.housh@gmail.com

Happy Thanksgiving/December!

It has been a busy past few weeks! We moved into our new school on Sunday, November 19, I turned 25 on November 21, I was home for Thanksgiving to see family and friends until November 25, and then I came home to Monterrey and was met by our wonderful women's group from Cincinnati! It is always my favorite week of the year because women from my home town, many of them mothers of my friends from grade school, come to spread Christmas cheer to all the casa hogares we work in. As always, it was a delight to have them on campus. One morning, Angie Carl and Angela Stutz, both CHCA moms, came to my classroom to do Christmas crafts with my students!

I was also able to participate in a girls night we did at LDM tonight. We invited the girls from Douglas and the girls on campus to get dressed up- we did their hair, make-up, and nails, and the boys served us a fancy dinner. Later, we decorated gingerbread houses and sang Christmas songs! I was especially excited to see Lizeth and Diana who now live in Don Lalo's children's home. It has been months since we've seen them since they left Douglas and they seem happy and up to their usual tricks! :)

Vineyard at CHD

I was happy to get to hang out with some folks from my home church, The Vineyard. We had a wonderful night of worship in English and Spanish. We sang and laughed and worked on crafts. Sundays are always a little strange for some of the kids because only a select few receive visitors while the others wait all day hoping that someone will come to see them.

(I'm still) Alive

So it's been about three weeks...sorry I haven't been posting. Things here are good- I've been busy with teaching and working with Beth. I'm going home to Cincinnati in one week, so if you're in town, give me a call. I'll be home from November 20-November 25. Hopefully I'll be going to the Vineyard on Sunday morning, so if you're there look for me!

SMCA is really coming along- they are hooking up the power today and we may even be moving in this weekend! I'll be sure to post pictures when we're all moved in.

This is a picture of my class on top of the school- we were just checking out the amazing ThermoTekking (like my new word?) skills of Melissa Briner!