Hey everyone!  I hope that you have enjoyed the last several pictures that I have posted of Micah.  We wanted to make sure that all of you got to see him as we do everyday, as a sweet and happy little boy.

Well like the title for this post suggests it is now officially the rainy season here in Port-de-Paix.  Lorraine and I know this for sure, because it has rained more here in the last two weeks than it did the entire four months we were here last spring.  Pretty much every day or night it rains at least a little bit.  The good thing about this is that it keeps the temperature down nice and cool and brings in a cool and refreshing breeze, but the bad thing is that everything is muddy and sopping wet.  I must admit, though, it is kind of nice to be experiencing this consistent rain.  As I said previously, last spring we didn’t get much rain here in Haiti, and then over our furlow time in Arizona we certainly didn’t get much rain either.  The rain now kind of breaks up the monotony of beautiful sunshining days.

As many of you know, this was our first official week back teaching.  Right, smack dab in the middle, of our week, though, we had a day off, because it was a Haitian Holiday.  On Tuesday, the Haitians celebrated the Battle of Vertieres.  This was the last major battle, which eventually led to Haiti claiming its’ independence from France.  When I asked all of my High School students what this Holiday was and what it was about, the only thing that they could really tell me was that it was “fighting day.”  I told them that this was a little too ambiguous, but that was all I could really get out of them.  I had to do a little digging myself to find out what Haitian Holiday happened every year on November 18th.

For our first week, I must say that everything went very well.  All of the students were happy to have us back, and we got adjusted into our classes and the new subjects extremely well.  My (Kyle) load is going to be pretty heavy as I suspected, but very workable; and in many ways, much more workable than I originally thought.  Lorraine’s classes went well too.  She decided to go ahead and get her feet into the Second Grade class, and she seems to really enjoy it.  It is big difference from High School literature and grammar, but the little kids are in many ways and in different ways easier to deal with.  My Bible College students have been so happy to see me back and to have classes with me, which certainly makes me feel good, and helps affirm that we are, at least for now, where God wants us to be.

The only issues that we are still dealing with are house issues.  We have mosquito and ant problems, which mostly everybody else here also has, but we also have some pretty serious bathroom issues.  The other main issue we have is what is going to happen in the next couple of weeks with a maid.  The maid we have right now is not ours to keep after this coming week, and so the search for a good one will be on after this week.  Plus, we are trying to figure out our schedules to see how logistically we are going to work things out with teaching and with Micah.  The next maid we hire may also have skills as being a nanny, and so that may be a viable option, or we may be able to give Micah to Emily whom watches two of the other little ones during the last periods of school.  I just ask that you pray for us and all of these above things.  These are issues that need to figured out and figured out effectively, and so we want to seek God for his guidance.

Well thats it for now!  Next week we will have several days off for Thanksgiving, and so we will look forward to using the time to get some other logistical things taken care of.  Blessings to you all!