Day 2 - ESL Classes

What a great day today was!  We began the morning with a visit with a SEND missionary and learning of her experiences.  The world is so diverse and it is always great to hear of how things are done or needs throughout the world.  Thanks Bertha for joining us.

Then we headed to Anna's English school.  This school is for students who are enrolled in public schools and desire to have additional English lessons.  They were all so much fun!  We hosted a party for a group of middle elementary students and taught English.  We all laughed quite hard when we realized we brought foam letters for the children to make name tags with, however, in Ukraine the use the cyrillic alphabet, which has 33 letters and many which are not in the English language.  Oh well, Anya transliterated their names to English for us - we couldn't have read the Ukrainian names anyhow.  The older classes we had an opportunity to have conversations and interaction with the students.  It was amazing how interested the students were in learning the lessons.

We ended the day with dinner at McDonalds and then Shelby, Lea, and I got on the metro by ourselves and found our way back to our apartment,  Yes, we had to call and let "Mama Marsha" know we had safely arrived, but it was a fun adventure.

We leave very early tomorrow morning for a region in the eastern part of the country.  No new permissions have been received, so we will spend one day teaching and one day prayer walking.  Pray that we wake up on time (4:30 AM), for no complications on the train ride, and for God size appointments throughout our stay.  (Due to being away from the city there may or may not be an update tomorrow and Wednesday - but check just in case - we appreciate and feel all your prayers!) 

We are all healthy and doing well.  We all know how blessed we are to have this opportunity and pray that we share the blessings of Christ all around us.

Photos of the day at the ESL school: