Who is Oscar Arias Sanchez?

Last Monday was the Costa Rican independence day. Which ment we had a long weekend off from school. Steve brought Josiah to the little parade by our house put on by a local school. They make lanterns out of paper, lit a tea light, and marched around following a marching band. Kids as young as Elliott where walking around with little lanterns too.
Monday we went down town to the park with a group from our school. We saw the president of Costa Rica (Óscar Arias Sánchez - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%93scar_Arias_S%C3%A1nchez) and their were ambassadors from around the world. It was neat to be that close to them. We had TV cameras on us almost the whole time, because it was unusual to see “gringos” there. There were also people taking pictures of our kids to put into newspapers etc. When we went back to school Elliott’s teacher said that she saw him on TV that night. And this morning the guy that we buy coffee from in the open market said that his daughter saw me and Elliott on TV! It would have been neat to see it, but we don’t have a TV yet.
Tonight Steve and I get to go out on the town without the kids! There are three single girls that are teachers at the grade school on campus for the year. They called us up this week and asked if they could watch our kids for us Saturday. Josiah is excited about playing superman with them. God has provided so many great people to encourage us in different ways.
Last night we had pizza with the Dennett’s and their kids at our house. We really enjoyed getting to know them better, and just encouraging one another with what the Lord has been teaching us along this journey of serving the Lord. Josiah loves there son Brody, they are the same age and very much alike. It’s sad that they are only here for one trimester with us…. But we are excited for them to move on to where the Lord has called them to serve. They have been a great source of encouragement to us in the first month here, and before we came too. Today I’m going out with my big sister Diane, and a couple other women from the school to a little thrift store near by. It will be nice to get out for a little while.
The boys are adjusting well to there school. Josiah surprised me with how much Spanish he can comprehend, he is doing great! Elliott is doing wonderful in his class as well. He loves his teachers, and is taking his regular morning nap there too. Praise the Lord!
Continue to pray for our health, this week no one was sick! We know that is because of answered prayers by all of you. Also pray for our safety, it is a very real issue here, pray that the Lords shield of protection would just continue to surround us. Thank you for your prayers! Also pray for our time management that we would continue to spend the amount of time needed each day to learn this language well to convey Gods love to others.
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