Fall Classes

Well, after moving into our apartment and settling in, we thought it was about time to disrupt our schedule again for a trip back to Michigan! We are currently back in MI for a month and are visiting family, friends and speaking at 5 churches. So far we have been enjoying our time home, but we miss our kids too. We are really enjoying our schedule this year. We are teaching classes in the apartments of the kids (english and a science/geography class), teaching at the special needs school, tutoring in our apartment (math, english, biology), involved in the youth group, and the Boys Transition House has started up again so we will also be teaching there. Most of our teaching is done in the afternoon, we tutor in the evenings and are at the transition house in the morning-early afternoon one day a week. So we are pretty busy, but we really enjoy our classes and being able to spend the time with the kids. On our one free evening of the work week, usually you will find us hanging out with some of the older kids at our apartment. That is the unique and special part of working in the southern location, Rosiori. The kids live in apartments (just down the street from us) and can get permission to come and visit us. We both have kids that are special to us that are more than just kids we work with, they truly are our friends. It is such a blessing to be able to support and encourage them and also to laugh together and spend time together as friends.

Mark at one of the apartments

We also had our annual Thanksgiving feast early this year. Last Saturday we had around 70 people at the team house for Thanksgiving. All graduates and current transition house "kids" (18 and up, since this is our after high school job and life skills program) are invited as well as some other people who are part of the H2H family. We had a good time and enjoyed lots of good Thanksgiving food!

Cristi, Amy, Haley and Steven

Aurel (who just graduated this spring from our program), Rebecca, Mark, Josh, Missy