Ready, Set, Action

Well, it is already the end of another week. This week was a tougher one as Saturday was the day our two friends in Denver tied the not. God decided to give them the gift of 11 inches of snow for the big day. From what we heard, it just made everything that much more beautiful. They are currently in Antigua on their honeymoon. We are so happy for them. Huge Congrats again Derrick and Krista!

This was also the weekend our new nephew Shane Pavelko was baptized. Congratulations Katie and Eric! I am anxiously awaiting new pictures from the weekend.

We had our first Peace Corps site evaluation this week. Two members of the staff came to observe us teach and talk about our work in the village. Our principal said some very nice things and we were so happy to hear that he is happy with our work. Peace Corps is just happy Ryan and I are working well together and haven't killed each other yet. Evidently, there was some concern about the two of us teaching together at such a small school. But, they were excited to see how it all was going and told us that our principal, Tevita, requested that he only get married couples from now on. Our apologies to the future couple who takes our place :)

The only other happening this week was with the damn rats. On a particularly muggy night, Ryan and I decided to take refuge in our bed under the mosquito net to get away from the hoards of mosquitos in the house. Ryan was happy as a clam as he is still neck deep in the Game of Thrones series (still top of the shit list Flood). After about 40 minutes of reading, Ryan and I were disturbed by a rat falling off the window beam onto our heads. As you can imagine, we freaked out. Thankfully, the rat did not fall into bed with us as we were protected by the mosquito net. It didn't change the fact that a rat dropped on our HEADS! The screaming was totally validated in my opinion. Two nights before this, Ryan and I awoke to the rats chewing through the plastic and eating the poison we had purchased to try to get rid of them. We were hoping this meant they were now dead and not coming back.  The package reads "zero tolerance." This seems to not be the case. Rentokil has now moved to #2 on my shit list. God I hate rats.

That's about all from Tonga. Ryan took some pictures of us in the classroom this week, so thought we would share some of them. Our kids are just so cool. They truly are the highlight of every day. Hope you all had a wonderful, rat-free week :)

Here is our class 3/4

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And class 5/6.

  

Even in Tonga, I still found a way to make kids read books :) 

        

 

This is the stray dog who has decided to stay in our yard. We named him Lucky because he is the healthiest (fattest) dog we have seen in the village and no other dogs try to fight him.