School and new abode!

School has continued to go well. It is still a lot of work, beings that we are 5 weeks in and I STILL don't have any textbooks!  I'm still spending a lot of my planning time researching for material to support the standards that need to be met.  I spend my afternoons doing curriculum development and because I'm in a room by myself and have no distractions I am quite productive! :)  It's amazing to me how fast the days go by.  Time flies when you're having fun!  I'm just hoping that when the books do come, it doesn't throw off everything I've planned!
Here are some pictures from the past month of my students and I!
Studying the continents!

 My 3 students!

 Our school rabbits! Unfortunately we are already down to 2!

 Our garden!

 Working on spelling...

 Since we just opened our elementary school we are trying to get the word out.....and the next thing I knew I was on the school banners that were hung all over town!

 Mr. Friesen in his office....he's kind of a big deal!

 Success!

We have been in Hanoi now for 2 months and moved into our 3rd apartment!!! The 2nd one we were in was temporary for just a month because we were waiting for the one next to it to become available. It is more spacious, has a spare bedroom, a full size refrigerator (which you never see!) and an oven (which you also NEVER see!).   

Thank goodness this little guy (well actually like 3-4 inches with wing span so not "little" in my book!), who was on our bathroom wall, was in the apartment we were just moving OUT of!

 Here is the Vietnamese money, it's very colorful and feels like plastic!

 A menu at a restaurant we ate at......they had a lot of specialty items! I think the seasonal cicadas were flown in from South Dakota! They also had buffalo, frog, snake head, pigeon, squid, octopus, ostrich, crocodile ribs, snails, oxtail, duck, jellyfish and more!