Well the first two weeks of school went great! Very busy but great. Dale is in a bit of a state of shock at the behavior of the students here. No one swears at him, they call him sir! They stand respectfully and willingly for prayer, they get excited about ideas he gives them for fundraising and run with it, they are quiet and do their work when you send them to the library, etc!! WOW. They are a nice group of kids. Our church family is really nice. They are a mixture of cultures, Spanish, Ketchi, and Creole. There are quite afew children and the girls are enjoying it also. The people here in the Valley come from: El Salvador, and parts of Belize, but everyone here is from somewhere else as this land was set aside about 20 some years ago by the Belizian gov. for refugees. Besides teaching Dale has been busy with building. There were so many things needed like shelves, cupboards, tables, computer desks and so on. Then there is the grass to keep mowed which is a big job. I keep very busy with homeschooling the girls, cleaning the church, cooking, cleaning, laundry and helping out at the school. I bet you thought there'd be no domestic chores here, HA! The electricity goes out every once and a while and the water does too. But God always turns both back on. The scorpions and tarantulas have not been around as much as at first because I don't think they like to be where we are really, they'd rather have their own space. I can live with that! Actually the tarantulas don't bother you, you just catch them in some container and move them out away from the school and that's it. The scorpions I'm not so fond of I tend to anialate them when I see them! We had a great big (6foot) snake climbing up the wall of one of our buildings the other day and we didn't know if it was poisonous so another lady and I thought it should be killed and she did get it down and wacked it with a machete. Later we found out that it was a good snake as it eats rats, mice, and other poisonous snakes. Now we know. We went to the Belize Zoo today to see exactly which snakes are what. It was wonderful. I'll try to post some of the animal pictures. Belize is a beautiful country with lots to see. It is fairly expensive for us to do any tourist things but we try to do some. Our trooper is running well now that Dale did some tuneup stuff. What a blessing a vehicle is! Alot of the men and boys here bike to Belmopan every day. That is 10 miles each way and it is not an easy ride. The road is terrible. These people are in incredible shape! We have one 85 year old church member who walks a couple miles to come to church each week. Most people don't have vehicles so bikes or feet are the most common. Also gas is about $1.60 a liter here so that makes it hard or impossible for people too. Well gotta go I'll write more later. Take care and God bless.