We tried another farmer's market yesterday, and this one was a winner (at least for our needs). Wayne was so funny...he was like a kid in a candy store [in a candy store that has everything for a cheaper price than the normal stores! - wayne]! They had tons of selections of fruits and veggies; we were a bit surprised they didn't have passionfruit. They had three different kinds of feta cheese (greek and domestic are the two I remember). They had all sorts of pasta. I think even the chocolate they had was cheaper than the normal grocery store. And, they take credit cards. What more could we want? :)
The real kids this week I met today. There are 7 kids in our class, and 7 in the other CTR-5 class. They have a lot of kindergarteners in this ward, apparently. Fortunately there are two teachers for both classes, and sometimes even an extra adult to just help out. And I'm teaching next week. Any suggestions and advice on what makes a good CTR-5 teacher? How to keep their attention, how long to keep it, what level to aim the lessons at? I haven't taught in primary before, other than singing songs....
We had lots of early mornings this week, since this was our quarterly meetings for work. One morning was the company-wide shindig, and the next day the R&D group had lots of meetings and then raced go-carts. I have to say, most of the speakers at these meetings were not very good. They failed to define terms and acronyms so I spent most of the time trying to guess what they meant. They also had serious issues keeping on schedule. At least they gave us a whole afternoon to play. Even if I missed the sign-up part and didn't get to participate. Oh well. Next time, right? I did get to watch them. :)
Monday night we went over to Kate and Robi's new apartment for dinner and games. We also learned secrets about home depot in the area, so we abandoned our plots to go to Home Depot to pick up wood for making shelves and canvasses. Apparently they don't cut wood for you at Home Depot after 4 in the afternoon here, so we will have to do it during the day, or find someone in the ward with a truck we could use to get the wood back to our apartment. In the meantime we'll fine tune our plans for our painting shelving unit.
Wayne sold a painting this week, so we went out to celebrate Wednesday. I also finished a couple of mending jobs one evening. And I got new glasses, yay.
We've had slightly "colder" weather lately...and us with no firewood to our name! Of course, "cold" weather here is nothing like what they have in Michigan. Obviously no snow for us! In fact, I'm sure we haven't even dipped below 50 degrees yet! Enjoy it while we can, right?
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