Halloween 09

Elijah dressed up as an Elephant for Halloween this year. We got to walk around with some friends in town, and of course collected lots of candy. It was super fun!





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Semester so far

We are now well into our 2nd year of training here in Canada. We are finding these classes quite overwhelming compared to last years where we mostly sat at our desks taking in lectures on various topics of Tribal Church Planting and the Christian life. This year is more hands on. The purpose for these classes is to learn HOW to learn someones language and culture.
We started off with Sounds and Symbols...
This is our teacher and to the right of his head is a chart of the International Phonetics Alphabet. We spent a few weeks going over these sounds (most of which we had never heard before). It was a really fun class. It was so neat to learn about the differences between our language and the languages in the world and how we have to train our mouths to be able to speak eachothers languages. However, after all that David and I are still unable to roll our R's.
We recently finished up Grammer class. During that time we learned how different languages are structured. Next we'll be doing what's called live language. David and I are paired up with a family who has been working in Indonesia for the past few years. For the rest of the semester we will be able to try to put into practice the techniques we have been learning as we try to learn some basic language of the tribal group that this family has worked in. We are super excited!

Now onto our family.....

Elijah is walking!!!!! We are finding that we just love the point he is at now! It has been so fun to see him learn new words and just do all sorts of funny things. We love this kid.

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Wrap up on Jungle Camp

Here are some random pictures from our time in Jungle...

I (Rachel) got to go on a 2 day ladies hike during the last week of Jungle Camp.

Some tasty sandwich buns. It was raining outside that day so we had to hang the laundry inside.

David did a lot of wood cutting for our stove

Doing "laundry"

Wood cutting competitions on Canada Day

We had open house one weekend. This was when people from the community and families are invited to come and check out Jungle Camp. We were so excited that both of our families were able to come visit us!

Wearing our flag shirts on the 4th of July

Singing around the campfire

He loves his tubbies


Well I think that just about does it for my Jungle Camp posts! Thanks so much for your interest and encouragement for us during this time. It was definately a fun and unique time in our lives. We were sad to see it end, but aren't at all struggling to adjust back to normal life!




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Elijah's 1st Birthday!

While we were in Jungle Camp Elijah turned 1 on June 26th!!!
So, we made cake and invited everyone to our little house for a birthday party.
Here are some pictures from the day.

It was a lot of people to fit in such a small space!

His birthday cakes

1st taste of chocolate... he wasn't too sure at first and didn't really get into it. He likes it now though!

the blocks we made him for his b-day

Us with our 1 year old!




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House Tour

After we got settled in to our house we were able to finish up the inside. So, here is the finished product... minus Elijah's room and our shower because I couldn't find any pictures of those!

Kitchen Table


Living room/ Elijah's play area... he definatly had a lot of space to roam.


The Kitchen


Our bedroom


Our "house" from the outside


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Back from "the bush"

Well, we have returned to civilization. There are too many pictures for one post so I'll try to spread them out and update you over a couple posts.
We moved up to Jungle Camp on June 13th. We had from Midnight until 5:00 to get everything up there. David took up 15 trips of stuff, I took up 7, and a classmate helped with 3! Needless to say, we were very glad to be done!
The staff provided dinner for us the first night so we didn't have to worry about cooking and could focus on settling in. It was so good to finally be up there. However, that night we already began to realize things that we would have done differently, like make our shelves more sturdy. I started putting all of our canned meats and peaches onto the shelf I designed just for that. I was working in a different room and I heard a crash. Our shelf had fallen breaking 6 or our jars and leaving us with a huge mess. Finally after cleaning up the mess, we headed to our Jungle Camp bed, hoping it would not break too!

David's final load

Elijah's room where we dropped off all our stuff


We were VERY happy when he offered to help!


Our canned peaches on the "floor" :(


We are now on summer break traveling around the states to visit with family and friends, look forward to see you all this summer!





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BUILDING DAY 11

Today was our final day to build before moving in. Our house is not completely finished yet, but definately at a point where we can move in (good thing too since we don't have a choice). The outside plastic and the inner walls are all stapled in place. David also finished up working on our door. So, our house is pretty much closed in now and hopefully will do a good job keeping critters out! Tomorrow, we move in. We have to carry all our belongings up on foot. This is a day we have been dreading, hopefully it's not as bad as we think. We can spend the first few days finishing up our houses with anything else we want to add. We'll be up there for 4 weeks learning how to live in a place without modern conviniences, fellowshipping with our classmates, and we'll also have some extra work we need to do that will be similar to what it would be like learning a language. We will have no internet, so our only way to communicate is through good ol' snail mail!
In case your dying to write to us:
313363 Hwy 6 South
Box 707
Durham, Ontario
NOG 1RO
Please keep us in your prayers during this time, and we look forward to hopefully seeing you this summer! Check back then for our final house pictures and more posts about our time in Jungle Camp, see you in a month!

the door

Our almost 1 year old


The house at the end of building


our shower area


walls!

The solar electric system to charge our batteries for lights in Jungle Camp


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BUILDING DAY TEN

It was so great to have David back on the building again. However he was quite blistered up from the hike yesterday, I wish he could have rested, but there's no time for that we've got a house to build! There are 2 girls living next door to us and they finished their home early, so they helped us all day by watching Elijah! That was awesome! So, we built a porch for our house, put screening around on the windows, and started putting up the plastic walls. It is nice to see the outside coming together, now that the inside is mostly done. Can't believe there's only 1 more day of building. We are able to finish more building once we are moved up, but it would be nice if we can get far enough along to keep some of those critters out! Here's some pics of what we did today and also some of what I did while David was on the hike...

the trench around the house

the door (it could use some work, but it'll do for now!)


The screen and plastic for the windows

Pantry Shelves

The porch!


The benches and all the foam we need to organize for cushions!


Bedroom shelves


Shower Curtain hung

Our house towards the end of the day today


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BUILDING DAY 9

David has returned home in one piece and with only a few scraps. We are so happy to have him back. He had some good times, but with the weather and a few surprises along the trail some parts were not as enjoyable, he is happy to be home. This morning Elijah and I headed out to do some last minute shopping for Jungle Camp and got a few fresh things to enjoy for hopefully the first week and some carrots and potatoes which we are told will last us most our time up there. We came home and had some lunch and Elijah napped. Then, finally mid afternoon we headed up to work on the house. I began to dig a trench around our house. This is to keep the plastic down after we put it up on the walls. I also hung up our shower curtain (just for fun!) and raked out all the junk that was laying around on our floors. It amazed me how clean dirt could look, it really looks a lot better now. After these were complete we headed back to the house to find that David had come home early to see us (oops). Well, here a few picks from David's hike. We will try to get some of the house up tommorow. We hope to get all our plastic walls and screening on, we'll have to see how it goes.

There's my hiking man


The Group


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BUILDING DAY 8

I don't know how the weather was where you are, but here it is FREEZING!! I am starting to think that Canada may not be aware that it is now June and it's ok if things warm up :) Thankfully, one of the staff ladies here watched Elijah most of the day, so I was able to get things done on our house and our little man could stay inside! Today I made the door for our house (this took most of the time and definately has not been my favorite project so far!) and then it didn't fit, so I took it apart and made it again! It didn't turn out as good as I had hoped, but it will do. It's only 1 month right? I made a new shelf under the sink and finished twining all the shelves in our whole house. Then, I put some more clay on our oven, hopefully that will get finished up soon. Again, sorry no pictures, hopefully tomorrow when my hubby returns to me we can get up some pictures up of his hike and also of the progress on our house!

BUILDING DAY 7

David and the other guys in our class left today for a 3 day men's hike, leaving Elijah and I very sad and without a camera. So, we do apologize for the lack of pictures on the posts the next few days, but we thought it would be better for David to take the camera with him. Today was very cold and rainy! We did manage to get a few things done though. Our bench area is now complete and ready for cushions. I also finished up a few shelves. Elijah did wonderful (other than when he needed his nap) and played really well while I worked on things. HE IS TOO CUTE!
Anyways, if you could please pray for David and the guys safety on the hike and that it would be a good time. Also, for Elijah and I at home ( I strongly dislike being away from David!) that we can get a lot done while David is away.

By the way, our little man turns 1 this month! And I just have to say it... I can't believe he's already going to be a year old, its crazy! We will be celebrating his b-day in Jungle Camp, what could be a better 1st b-day than being in a house made of cedar poles, duct tape, and plastic!!