Good Weekend

The weekend is now over but it was a very nice break. Friday nights here they play Ultimate Frisbee with Chevron employees. We had a great turnout as we had 18 players. It takes place on the school soccer field. The families come over and visit and play on the playground equipment. Yo-Yo and Kathi stayed home because right now she has a ton of mosquito bites on her. Last time we went she got a bunch also. We decided that we should let these ones heal before we had a new round come and get her. She and Kathi seem to be their favorite flavor. The kids and I really don't have too much trouble with them as long as we get bug spray on.

Saturday we were able to sleep in which was great. We just hung around the house. The kids went and played at the neighbors houses. The best part was that Kathi and I were put on the schedule for massages from Fitri, a massage therapist, who works on the camp. Many of the teachers here use her on the weekend and she came highly recommended. She comes to our house and her fee is $12.50 per hour. It was very relaxing. We were feeling bad about the price she was charging because we know how expensive it can be to get massages in the states but when we did the math she makes about four times the standard pay that our school assistants make.

About 4:00 in the afternoon some of the kids from school and some of the Dads had a pick-up flag football game. Kade begged to play so he and I went over to check it out. I am so amazed at how all of the kids here play so well together. There were kids from 2nd to 7th grade playing together. There were no fights and the kids were so nice to each other.

Kade has never played football and as much as I try to get him to sit on the couch with me on Sundays to watch football he would rather be outside. All of this led to his background about how to play football quite lacking. There we two great moments that stood out. The first was when his team got the ball and they ran a play he went to the kid guarding him and pulled off their flag even though they didn't have the ball and he was the one on offense. The kid just looked at me as if to say what is Kade doing? Funny! The second highlight was the first time he got the ball he started running. That was good. The problem came when the defense started to come toward him he started to back pedal and proceeded to throw the ball to a teammate, like any good point guard should do right? Well needless to say the assist was not registered. To Kade's credit he did start to get it figured out and did much better after some on the job training. The best part is that he said he wants to play that every Saturday.

Saturday night we went to some friends house for some great Thai food. They had a few of the teachers over and we had a very nice time. The kids all played well and it was a lot of fun.

Those are the highlights. Hope you all had a great weekend too!