4th Anniversary of our church
This Sunday our congregation at Iglesia Bíblica El Renuevo, celebrated 4 years together…
Blogging friends
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It’s been a while since I highlighted other bloggers. There’s probably a lot of people out there that I know who blog, but they don’t always tell me. So if you know us in the offline world, and you have a blog, leave a comment!
First of all, we have friends that we got to know at vti who blog. Stephanie Gartner (nee: Nesdoly), has been blogging for a while. Her newer blog has had a lot of shockingly cute pictures of her son, and other family stuff. For sure it’s Guaranteed Good Times.
Brand new to the blogging world is Alan. Shari was one of his team advisors in 2001/2002. It’s funny talking about the history of these people again, because I don’t necessarily associate them with a mission team any more. Anyway, we like Alan and he has a blog called Thought Holder.
There are other vti related bloggers, but some have not been blogging so much – I already mentioned Ken, for example, in an earlier post. There’s also Amy Nixon, who recently moved her blog here. Hopefully that link will work. Amy’s cool.
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For family members (and a vti contact too – Amy Winger was on my team to Trinidad and Tobago), we’ve mentioned Shari’s sister Amy over at Under the African Rain before – check it out.
Also new to the blogging world is my friend Daryl. Daryl and I go waaaaaaay back to … well, sometime in the 80s. His question is, What’s a Blog? Personally, I think his post Three Certainties in Life should be required reading for all boys entering adolescence. 😉
If I start writing about friends who are missionaries, the list gets very long. Among those we know offline are Matthew and Rhonda Slaubaugh, who have also started a Blogger blog here: Slaubaughs in Madagascar. I’m very excited about that. I like blogs that have news feeds. Don’t miss the Fry family in Mexico at In the Shadow of Volcanos, and the Smith family (soon to return to Mexico) at The Smith Connection. You already know about our friends the Harers in Mexico at .:. The Harer’s live journal. We just recently met Jon in Mexico.
There are many more we keep in touch with, who we’ve never actually met in person. But this is getting long, and I’ve probably already forgotten some people. If I forgot you, leave a comment!
Valentines Day 2007
I actually made this little video for Grandma and Grandpa Winger, but I might as well share it with you too! Besides, you can see a bit of our living room. (Actually, that open space is supposed to be a dining room, but we don’t have any dining room furniture yet.)
Grandma and Grandpa gave Hannah and Nathanael these little straw-shooters for Valentine's Day, so they had fun shooting them around the house.
Done with the CRA … for now …
We finally finished our paperwork for the Canada Revenue Agency. If you haven’t read the details, check out our previous post, The Canada Revenue Agency.
The bad news is that it cost us about CA$120 (US$100/MX$1,100), numerous phone calls and a whole lotta time. The good news is that we got a lot of help from our friends – thanks especially to the Urquharts and Howers! I also talked to Michael at the CRA office, and he was very helpful.
The we’ll-see-if-it’s-good-or-bad news is that this may only be the first step. We may be asked for more paperwork, and more clarification in the weeks ahead. So for now we’re holding our breath hoping we’ll get a nice little letter that says
What do you think our chances are? 😉
Not-so-dry season
It doesn't usually rain during dry season. But much to everyone's surprise, it's rained actually a few times since we've been in Cuernavaca.
But today beat all – not only a downpour, but hail. When we went outside, we could see our breath – it was that cold. I just had to take some video of our yard…
Look out our windows (part 1)
When Amanda over at following an unknown path put up the fourth post in her series “thru my windows”, I finally realized what a great idea it was. So in shameless imitation, I’m going to start a similar series here, to show you what we see through our windows. Her title is better, but I didn’t want to steal everything. 🙂
So I’m starting with the view from my language school classrooms. Actually, there are many buildings and our classrooms change from week to week, so this is the view from this past week. I’m keeping the pictures fairly small (and low quality) so they don’t take forever to load – just click on them to see a larger and better version in our Photo Gallery.
Classroom 1-207
We’re on the second floor, looking out over parts of the school. On the bottom you can see just a corner of an area (on the right) where there are tables and benches. The students (Mexican mostly, since this is a Mexican University) meet with their books and iPods and laptops.
Classroom 7-303
This is on the third floor. You can see the railing of the walkway out the top window, and the school logo to the right. All the buildings are numbered – you can see the “5” across the way.
The bottom window looks out toward the mountains. I’m not sure if that building out the window is on the school campus or not.
My conversation class is outside, so there were no windows to look out of. 🙂