One week in Elim

Jack has been gone for 5 out of the first 7 days here so the kids and i have been exploring and putting things away. He has been at the new principal training and now the new teacher training all the principals have to attend. They get flown to the school district village and stay in the school, not sure what that's like. This new teacher training is 9 days!!!  He doesn't get cell reception in that village, but on wifi we can face time. 

It looks like great head way is being made on digging the ditch for the water line to be installed at our new place.  Our guess is two more weeks, maybe? I'm standing at the new house which are identical to the houses in this picture. 

 

The village is pretty small, but very hilly! Wherever you go is a workout! This is how close the school is to our new house (blue roof). The scary building on the right is the condemned high school. The kids all say it's haunted!

Here are some views of the scenery around the village. It's a beautiful area right on the beach with great landscape, but you'll see in the pictures their houses look like i am in a third world county.

This is at the opposite end of the village where i live and the school is. To the left is the ocean and to the right is the trees from the picture above.

And now our new villager friends. Zax loves to play all the time with anyone who will give him the time of day so it didn't take long for everyone to know his name. This is outside the post office.

This is right outside our door! If only it was warmer this really would be like paradise.

If it isn't too windy we go to the beach! The kids love playing in the dirt, sand, rocks...anything available to mold into their own creation.

Our teacher friends invited us on a walk to the beach on a perfect morning!

Ila, Aiden, and Zax.

Zax and Ila holding Miss Sammy's hand, the kindergarten teacher.

My usual look, Crew in a carrier wrapped in a blanket.

I've gotten back into working out by running outside, but when Jack is at these training, the four of us go the school gym to workout. It isn't much, but I'm grateful for what it is!

Crew sleeps on the bleacher while we exercise😃 I do not want him to get bigger. I love this stage! 

The reception is horrible (awful!). I'm living in a temporary apartment until the water hole is dug for the new ones. there are no restaurants, and when Amazon takes too long to arrive with my much anticipated "need" i borrow from someone else or do without (like dish soap). Not the life i ever wanted to live, but we are making do!