Mission: Urban

Welcome to our home.  I really can’t believe how spacious and nice it is.  It’s got plenty of quirks, but we’re so happy to have a home again.
This is the dining room.  It’s where the entrance to the house is.

There was this odd, empty cut-out in the dining room.  So we had some shelves [...]

Our team has sat down and hammered out the framework for our goals as a team.  We’ve broken our time in La Plata into three ranges.  Long term Goals are what we want to see happen by the time we leave.  Mid-range Goals are what we hope to see happen in the next two years.  [...]

I sat down to reply to some email tonight and realized once again how badly I’ve neglected blogging here.  Hopefully as I answer these questions, my excuses will be made for me…
How is Ellie doing in her new school?
GREAT.  This school transition could not have been more painless than it has been.  The girl really [...]

Rich took Em on a long walk this morning so I could nap (I’m fighting a cold).  On their walk, they heard a tiny meow.  They looked towards this ditch they were walking past.  Rich said there was a little, maybe 2 month old kitty coming towards them.  It jumped over a dead kitten to [...]

So we’ve been here for close to a month now. And there are still moments where it all seems completely surreal to actually be here, living in Argentina (like the other night when I for some inexplicable reason felt this sudden urge to watch the water drain “backwards”, like it was a completely new [...]

Monday was the first day of school for Malachi.  There was supposed to be some sort of opening ceremony for the year but it rained so they did not have it.  Instead they had the kids in the classrooms…and Malachi did surprisingly well.  It took some warming up to the teacher, but he did after [...]

We’ve been in Argentina for one month!  We’ve been missing you all and really wish we had internet access at our house.  Please pray for the pole to be installed by the phone company, we can’t have a phone or internet until thats in place.
This week has been a very exciting and somewhat sad week.  [...]

Yesterday I took Tara out for her birthday, her birthday was the 23rd but that was the day the Elledges came in.  We went downtown La Plata for a lunch out on the town (The Dunlevy’s an Elledges watched the kids).  I told her she could go anywhere she wanted, anywhere…she decided to go to [...]

This morning we visited Malachi’s school.  Here’s a picture of the outside and a picture of Chi and Ellie getting to know the playground in the back.

It seemed to be a very nice school.  It put us at ease finally being able to see and talk with the faculty.  We met his teacher, Paola, she [...]