Hi Everyone,

School is going great this year for Yamile. she is in the Newcomer class and loves it. There are 3,4,5th graders together.Several are Spanish Speakers, two are Russian, one Chinese and one Italian. Yamile is really helping the teacher b/c her English has gotten so good. She is helping to translate for some of the students. Her classwork seems to be on her level of ability also. She read a story in English about watermelon, one of her new favorite foods.

She is loving our house and all the space especially the carport where she rides her bike and scooter almost daily. Jorge loves it too.

Jorge is doing well except at circle time. He just does not get it. He is fine during work when he has to sit by himself and work on a project but group activities, he just does not get. On a positive note he is happy to go to school everyday. He enjoys eating breakfast and lunch with the other kids.

He loves the pond, so does yamile. There are ducks which they love to stuff with duck food, fish which they try to stuff with duck food, and turtles who don’t like duck food. It is very pretty there and I really enjoy so does Jim.

Right now I am only working a few hours a week so I have lots of time to spend with the kids. They really like it but I confess, I miss working. I would like to work about 25 hours a week. Enough to pay the bills and have lots of time for them.

Goodnight and God Bless,
Gina