First day with students-Sunday

This morning we gathered for a Chinese buffet breakfast.  Boy did the break hit the spot and the hard boiled egg.  The rest we picked at but seemed to fill up sometime.  Then we left for the activity center of the school where we had a brief worship service and then walked over to the school for a tour.  The school is on the top floor of a wing of the vocational high school in town.  It is considered the lowest high school because none of the kids will go off to college.  They consider having the American English School or Oasis Training Center, formally, a great asset to their school.  OTC has roughly 65 kids in the program 42 first year and the rest second year.  They have 4 classrooms and an office that they occupy.  The school holds the largest English Library in the provence and there are less books than in the playroom of our house.  This is a BIG need for the school that we are thinking of exploring how to help with when we return home.

Last night Barb and Deb went to the silk shop and ordered a couple of dresses for Barb and bought some silk for Deb to make something for DD.  A couple of the 2nd year students translated for them.  Last night we met the 1st year students (the ones we will be working with) for the first time.  We played a fun game where thy had to run around and match different facts about people.  Then Deb and I went out and shopped for water, toilet paper (they only give you maybe a 10th of a roll every day) and candy bars :-).  The hotel informed us that the hot water would be turned on at 6am for us to take showers and be down at breakfast by 7am.