Thursday, January 5, 2012

First day of school

Wednesday, we started our orientation at ILE (Institudo de Lengua Española, the school we'll be attending).  It's a beautiful campus, with a great facility.  On the same piece of property they have classes for all the students (close to 100 students will be on campus this upcoming trimester), and their children who are enrolled at either the Sojourn Academy (for students who are K-12th grade), or at Rayitos de Sol, their preschool.  You can see how large the campus is here, and how close we are to it.


Even though their actual classes broken up by age won't start until Monday, the kids were still excited for their first day at school while we went through orientation.  Even Caitlynn, who is usually shy, was very excited to go to class, and has bonded quickly with her teacher.



Gabe was also pretty excited, though he doesn't always like it when mommy and daddy leave him behind for a while.  It was such a blessing to drop him off, and before we were even out of the building hear his teacher singing songs about God to him in Spanish.



The campus of ILE is gorgeous, with some great views of the mountains south of us.  I'll try to get more pictures of the campus for you all to see later, but here's one last look at the campus for now.  Keep us in your prayers, as every day at orientation we find out more things that we need to be thinking about and working on!


1 comment :

mary said...

Welcome to Costa Rica!! Roy and I are about 4 hours north and west above Lake Arenal. do you ever get time off? We have a guest house and you are so welcome to visit. It won't be long before your Spanish is better than mine because my brain has absorbed about as much as it can!
I'll bet you all are missing College Heights this Sunday morning.
Best Wishes,
Mary Whaley
phone 26922194

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