{"id":632,"date":"2012-10-28T13:05:10","date_gmt":"2012-10-28T18:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jevon-rich\/?p=632"},"modified":"2012-10-28T13:09:20","modified_gmt":"2012-10-28T18:09:20","slug":"everyday-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jevon-rich\/2012\/10\/28\/everyday-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Everyday Stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Night Out with Friends<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n

This is a pretty bridge in Manaus.\u00a0 We walked there with friends one night, and it happened to be a night when I really needed to choose some thankful thoughts about this city.\u00a0 God knew.\u00a0 The aesthetic lines of the bridge and the pretty lights were a welcome sight for me, and something I could celebrate about our new home.<\/p>\n

Kiki was supposed to be posing but she got thirsty.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 She’s cute anyways.<\/p>\n

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This is our friend Leticia posing in front of the bridge.<\/p>\n

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I was so sad this picture turned out fuzzy because I REALLY want to introduce to you our friends: Alfredo and Fabia and their family have been a huge help to us in adjusting to our new home here in Brazil.\u00a0 They spend alot of time with us.\u00a0 We have quickly come to love them, and our kids love theirs.<\/p>\n

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Alfredo and Fabia are here in Manaus during a transition phase between works.\u00a0 For medical reasons, they have decided to leave the remote tribe they were living with for the past 6 years and work with another tribe that is more accessible.\u00a0 It has been a hard decision and seems like a huge setback, but we know that God directs in many ways and often it is not the way we would have chosen.\u00a0 Please pray for Alfredo and Fabia’s family as they get ready to start over again in another place.<\/p>\n

While they are in between works, they have been helping with the NCLA (National Language and Culture and Aquisition) program here in Manaus for people like us.<\/p>\n

At Home:<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n

Isaiah is 14 months old tomorrow.<\/p>\n

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Cali still likes putting together the puzzle Marilyn gave her.<\/p>\n

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After a 6 week break for moving to Brazil and getting our bearings in this new place, we picked up where we left off in homeschool.\u00a0 Cali is wrapping up her “My Father’s World” kindergarten, and when she finishes that we will just continue to build on her reading skills with some easy readers we have, and practice math concepts in everyday life.\u00a0 I think we will only sit down and officially call it “school time” on Wednesday mornings.\u00a0 Most of our energy right now will be focused on learning Portuguese.\u00a0 We feel comfortable with this since Cali only turned five this summer and is already reading short vowel words, counting to 100, and getting familiar with the concepts of adding and subtracting.<\/p>\n

Thank you to Mike and Lorna for the curriculum Cali’s finishing up now, and thanking you to Lorna and Jane Poynter for lots of homeschool talks, suggestions, direction, and motivation you have provided.\u00a0 I will be using the book you gave me this year, too, Jane.<\/p>\n

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Kiki also needs help learning some preschool level thinking skills, so we are doing things like puzzles, simple worksheets, counting, and categorizing.\u00a0 Keeping it light.\u00a0 She is getting immersed in a new language right now, too.<\/p>\n

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For those of you who haven’t already seen the quail eggs we posted on facebook, here they are again:<\/p>\n

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They were a kindergarten expiriment for Cali’s [qu] quail lesson.\u00a0 Aren’t quail eggs pretty?\u00a0 We found out they taste really good, too.<\/p>\n

No [qu] for Cali to find on the package, though.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

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Isaiah likes to cool off on the tile floor in our house.<\/p>\n

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And this is o amor da minha vida.<\/p>\n

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At the Mission<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n

We spend alot of time at the mission property during the week.\u00a0 Jevon and I trade off days having language lessons and watching the kids.\u00a0 One of us could stay home with the kids if we wanted to, and we do if they seem to need a break.\u00a0 But as much as possible we like to take them with us.\u00a0 There is room at the mission for them to play outside (grass even!\u00a0 which is a rare thing in\u00a0 Manaus!) and Alfredo and Fabia’s kids are there for them to play with.\u00a0 Everyone assures us that kids learn language fast, but we know it isn’t magical.\u00a0 They have to be hearing and responding to the language if they are going to learn it.\u00a0 It’s good for them to play with Lais and Leticia and whoever else is around.\u00a0 Even the adults at the mission will take time to talk to our kids and play with them a little bit.<\/p>\n

Cali’s nickname at the mission right now is “Cacao”, because when we first came here she was learning the names of some fruits and painfully mispronounced the word “cacao” as “cow-cow”.\u00a0 The worst thing was that she would walk around repeating it the wrong way all the time just for fun, so everybody was always trying to correct her.\u00a0 Now that she knows how to say it right, people still call out “Ei!\u00a0 Cacao!\u00a0 Tudo Bem, Cacao?” when they see her.\u00a0 She loves it. Since cacao is the fruit that cocoa beans come from, Cali seems to feel her new nickname fits perfectly with her Studtmann uncles’ name for her – “Truffles”.<\/p>\n

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Lais and Karina<\/p>\n

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Kiki was trying too hard to smile in this next one, I think.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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playing in the sand<\/p>\n

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Isaiah is still working on his shovel action.\u00a0 Sometimes he accidentally throws the sand in his own face.<\/p>\n

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Cali likes picking up the mangoes that fall on the ground, so we can make juice.\u00a0 Fresh mango juice is something we love about living here.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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Isaiah can’t really swing yet but there’s one low to the ground he tried sitting on.<\/p>\n

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When he gets too sweaty and sandy and miserable, a bath in the outdoor tanque (laundry sink) makes him feel better.\u00a0 Sometimes Kiki gets one, too.<\/p>\n

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He’ll cool off and start all over again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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