Football, Cloth-Shopping, Spirit Week, & More!

The Varsity Football season is winding down, but the JV season is just starting, so Caleb is continuing to get lots of experience!

Dad & Caleb practising some skills in the back yard:

Caleb's first JV game (they got their kits last week!):

KICS was recently fully accredited, and they've also been building a new building containing a library/media lab and a science lab.  The grand opening was a couple weeks ago, and it also included the presentation of the official accreditation documents.

It was also Spirit Week that week, so there were a couple of dress-up days:

Wacky Tacky Wednesday!

 And here he is dressed up for Young Life (similar to intervarsity):

I've been working on a couple of projects this past week.  Here's some of my Physics project being done:

 

Another adventure we embarked on the other day was trying to buy material in order to make outfits for all of us (Christmas family photo coming up...).  Laurence (Pastor Andre's administrative assistance) took us to a couple of stores that are literally totally filled with stacks of cloth!!!  The patterns are generally very bright & colourful, so trying to find different ones that would match (or at least look OK together) for the picture was a bit of a challenge.  Then we went to the place where another friend, Janet, works as a seamstress [Janet is Damascene, who works for the Soucy's, wife].  That was also an adventure!  The room was only about 2 meters wide with sewing desks lined along the sides and an aisle that was only about 50 cm wide!!!  And it was packed with people!

 

Caleb has his last Varsity football game tomorrow, and the Kenny's are arriving for a few days this morning, so we are going out for supper with them.  And I'm enjoying having a week of school that is "normal" without any studying or projects!

Here's a cool picture to finish off with (or at least I think it's cool!).  We've seen these a couple of places...can anyone guess what it is?  [There are some pretty big clues in the picture!!].

 

Have a great week, everyone!!



Kigali Klips - October 31/12

Our common sights might not be what you'd consider typical.  So here's a glimpse into our normal:

"Taxi" - Public Transportation

[AKA "matatu" in Kiswahili, "angkot" in Bandung, "oplet" in Pontianak]

Monday Update

On Friday the 19th, Caleb's KICS football (soccer) team had their semi-final game.  They didn't win, but it was an extremely exciting game and they played great!  The team has improved SO much since they started!  The Varsity season is winding down, but the JV team is just starting up.  Caleb will be able to play on the JV team, so he should be able to get some more experience & playing time (The Varsity team is under 18 and the JV team is under 14.  This means that the boys from the younger couple of grades on the Varsity team will move down and become the older couple of grades on the JV team...if that makes any sense!).

Warm-up:

 

The view at that field is absolutely stunning!!

On this past Saturday, we met Mom's language helper, Juliette, at a market to try to find cleats for Caleb.  It went well; we were able to buy Caleb's cleats (new ones, even!) and get a stool for our night guard, Faustin.

The view from outside:

 

When you first go in, there's an open section that is mostly produce:

 

 

And then there's an inside-don't-enter-if-you're-claustrophobic part (where we got the cleats):

After we finished at the market, we went with Juliette to ABC to have pizza for supper (it was umuganda, so no bagels in the morning).  Here's Mom & Juliette while we were waiting:

 

The past couple of weeks we've had a short-term mission team here from the Journey Church.  They spent most of their time in Gisenyi, but they're in Kigali again today & tomorrow before they fly out.  So, they're coming to see our house this morning, and we'll all be going out for supper tonight with them.

 

Just a couple more photos to sign off with:



I know it's blurry, but this is what happens when it suddenly
starts to down-pour.  Everyone heads for shelter!

Enjoying reading on a lazy Saturday afternoon.

Kigali Klips - October 24/12

Our common sights might not be what you'd consider typical.  So here's a glimpse into our normal:

The Jacaranda Tree

Flowers & Bugs! (And a Frog!)

After an info-packed post yesterday, here's a flower-, bug-, and frog-filled update!

 

 

 

A while ago, we had another tree frog in our house.  When Dad tried to get it off the door, it jumped down onto Dad's toe, and then got a "ride" outside.

And then we had a caterpillar today...

And to finish off, our grasshopper visitor!