YEE HAW Mommy's Back

from language School in Ensenada.

It was a trying, but good week for all! We had a flood here at the house, lts of last minute cleaning and some interesting "Daddy-Style" meals, but we survived the week without Sharlene.

Sharlene had a trying week at the Language School, which apparantly is normal. She came back with some good tools for learning, which is great! She doesn't think she came back with alot more proficiency yet, but she understands more and has lots of confidence. The very day we came back, we went grocery shopping and Shar took the initiative to ask questions of the store employees, which she didn't know enough to do before. So while she is not fluent yet, she has the tools to get going now.

There is a lady from our church who comes to teach shar on Saturdays for an hour. The difference in what shar could do an dunderstand from last week to this was immense. We are also looking at getting another tutour to come over a few days a week. Hopefully soon!

We are officially moving.

Again.

This time we found a mobile home on a good sized fenced lot with smal palm trees, cacti and flowers! It's a bit rustic for Canadian Standards, but at least the plumbing works and the rent is almost the same. It's in the same neighbourhood we are in, has 3 bedrooms, a large living room and kitchen, a hookup for a washing machine outside and a good sized lot. The place is large enough that we can bring the rest of our clothes etc. out of storage on the US side and bring them here. It even has closets in every bedroom- even the bathroom has places to store things!
We had been wondering why the gocery stores here only seem to sell small sizes of items. In Canada we were used ot Superstore and we shopped for 2 weeks at a time. Here people seem to buy daily, small amounts of smal litems. With little storage in the homes (and it seems to be the norm) they just get enough to get buy a few days at a time.

The place we are in now is nice, but exceptionally small and the kids end up needing to play on the road, which is a bit disconcerting to us!

Friday is moving day-

We'll send pics on when we're moved in!

Thanks for reading!

Until next time,

Mike, Shar and Family