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Published: January 25th 2009
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Pretend like this was taken in June!
The butterfly garden doesn't have many butterflies, because the flowers have gone to seed, but this one hung around. I took this picture after the winter weather! (Florida Bible Christian School)
Wednesday night the temperature “plunged” to 41 degrees. It hasn’t been that low this day since 2003. Yesterday it didn’t make it out of the 50s, and that hasn’t happened since January 18, 2006. You have to know we’re
thrilled to be here while they break these records!! Usually when it starts getting colder, it’s time to move south to the next project, but we’re in Miami~~we’ve pretty much exhausted our possiblities! I’m not expecting you all to send your condolences, but we haven’t been to the ocean for two weeks. I just thought I’d throw that in to add a little laughter to your day! Here’s something else that will make you chuckle: the kids didn’t go out for any recess yesterday, because of the weather, and the little kids didn’t go out again this morning…and it was 64 when I came home for lunch!! Someone said they probably don’t have winter coats, but believe me, those who have them wore them today. And their hats, scarves and gloves! Like Megan said, her kids take their coats off at 40 degrees! They discussed cancelling school today, but apparently decided to work through it!
Many of the people in this area are from the Caribbean Islands, and they’re not used to this “cold” weathe~~it's all relative, isn't it?
This is homecoming week, so the kids have been dressing in themes every day…I miss seeing their uniforms; I like the order (big surprise!) Thursday there was supposed to be a carnival in the baseball field, and the men were to going to inflate 400 balloons for dart throwing; we were going to make popcorn for it. But alas, it was cancelled~~weather, you know. And then it turned out to be a beautiful day. But to be fair, Wednesday there was a cold damp wind blowing, so it would not have been a good day for it. Thursday there was full of sunshine and no wind…bummer.
Another thing I want to mention is the huge number of people in this area. I know I’ve said it before, but I don’t think we’ve ever been in an area with this many people. Just to let you know:
Florida has 65,795 sq miles, 18, 328,340 population, with a density of 338.4 people per sq mile.
Montana has 145,552 sq miles, 967,440 population, with a
This is to let you know that we
do too work! (Well obviously not me so much! But I am making sure the others are working!) density of 6.5 people per sq mile!
That’s just a lot of people to have moving, and they’re moving alllll the time. Driving is
crazy. I get so frustrated, because it takes so long to go anyplace, and it's just start-stop-start-stop. Not many people use their blinkers because it gives others a clue of what you have in mind, and lessens the chance that you’ll be able to actually make that move. In California if you put on your blinker, people would let you enter~~even in a motor home. In Florida, there is not a chance that they’ll let you in. And the red lights are like a comedy act~~you can watch one, two, probably three cars go through the intersection after the light turns red. Once Bob stopped didn’t enter the intersection because the light had just turned red, and the car behind us blared his horn! After all, it had just turned red, so we cheated half a dozen people out of going through! And heaven forbid you should still be sitting there after it turns green, because then everyone is back on their horns….not tooting, but HONKING. We can’t drive anywhere without seeing at least
one wreck. It’s like watching a bunch of teenage boys on the bumper cars at the fair. Put this with the crime rate, and there is always a siren blaring. Always. Always.
I mention the crime rate, and we hear about robberies and such constantly on the news, but we’ve not been one single place that we felt uncomfortable or unsafe, or felt that the people were unfriendly. Once they get out of their cars, they’re very easy to visit with, and will return smiles. Put them in a car, and they turn psycho.
Monday, MLK Day, the kids didn’t have school, so we women repainted the Awana circle on the playground. It was fun to be working together, and discussing the deep topics that need to be discussed! Plus it was a warm day. And we got to watch the ambulances sirening by!
Friday was the culmination of homecoming week, beginning with a lip-synching contest in the morning. When I heard about this, I thought it would be your regular pretend-like-you’re-singing contest, but each class (grades 7-12) had an excerpt from a musical that they had choreographed, and had costumes, and did their presentation~~it was impressive.
Isn't this a little Tom Sawyer-ish?
Dave paints, and the others are...well what are the others doing?! By the time the seniors performed you could really tell they’d done this several years in a row. In the afternoon was the parade, and the class floats (again, 7-12) were done in the theme of their presentation that morning. This was followed by a pep rally, and basketball games. The games were held at a gym several blocks from here, as the school doesn’t have a gym yet….that’s on their prayer list. It was such a fun day. The parade circled the church property twice, and that worked fine! We skipped tour so we could be part of the happenings, and it turned out that Marilyn, Nancy and John were three of the four judges for the parade and lip-synching. It was a fun day!
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Sara!
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Their lockers are outside?! How cool! I suppose with no spring fever to worry about then kids don't run off between classes? January is an odd time of year for Homecoming!