Starting School

We have all started school now. I will have to do some catch up posts with the rest of our trip and moving into our apartment. We were able to see friends from our church in Baltimore and spend one night with Stephen's Aunt Lois and Uncle Bill.
Today, I am just going to talk about the kids school, and I will try to do other posts of our school, our apartment, the campus, and the area around us.
Ian and Isabelle are both in the Lennoxville Elementary School, which is about 5-10 minutes from our apartment. It is an English school technically, but it is about 1/2 English and 1/2 French. Ian started Tuesday, and Isabelle started Wednesday. (The kindergarten students come one day later, and their parents get to stay for the first hour.)
There are two Kindergarten teachers, and the 2 classes rotate between them. One speaks all English to the class, and the other all French. They are both very nice, and Isabelle has been very happy so far.
The third grade has an English homeroom, and a French homeroom. Ian is in the English homeroom, but has the French teacher for French, social studies and science.
One thing that is different is that they have shoes they keep at school-their inside shoes-- and shoes they wear home, and out to lunch and recess. Both kids have gym clothes that keeps at school (Ian brings his home to wash on the weekends.) They both have an our for lunch, in which they eat and then play on the playground. Ian signed up for an intermural soccer league that plays Wednesday during lunch.
The school bus stops right in front of our building, and once we get their bus passes they will both ride the bus. (It takes awhile for the paperwork to go though.) They are both really excited about riding the bus. Right now I am enjoying picking them up from school, so I don't really mind if the paper work takes a little while.
As for Caleb, he is stuck at home with his parents. The language school had enough beginners for 2 classes. I go to the morning sessions and Stephen to the afternoon. I will write more about that later. We may put Caleb in day care on Wednesday because there are a few things we both have to attend, and it would be good for him to be around other French speakers some.

Quick Update

I know Stephen put an update on his blog, but I thought I would do one for anyone who does not read both. We arrived safely Thursday after an uneventful trip.
We were able to see our niece, Kaitlyn, on Monday, and many friends from our church in Baltimore on Tuesday.
We were greeted warmly by some of our fellow students, who helped us unload and begin unpacking. One family in the building has helped us unpack, fed us, given advice and instruction on how to do things here, etc. That has made it so much easier.
Everything is still overwhelming, but we are on our way to being unpacked, Ian and Isabelle are registered for school, and we have at least a few groceries.
When things settle down a little (or I just give up on unpacking), I will post pictures of

On the Road Again (and again and again)

We are on the last stretch of the journey now. We left Eastern Ky today, and are now somewhere in Virginia. Tomorrow, we travel to Baltimore to visit with friends there (briefly) and then on to Pennsylvania to visit more relatives. Our plan is to be at our apartment on Thursday.
As you can see from the picture, we traded in our moving truck for a trailer. We are moving to a furnished apartment, so we had a lot less we needed to take. Before we moved we got rid of quite a few things, and we had some more that we set aside for storage. When we first got to Eastern KY, we went through some of the boxes and found more things to get rid of or put in storage. Still, the trailer is jam packed, as is our car. We started running out of space, and had to find more things to leave behind. Needless to say, it was quite stressful. However, when we get to our small apartment, I'm sure we will be glad to have less stuff with us.
I have more pictures to post from other visits with friends and family, which I will do when I have time and an internet connection. :)

Doctors in Training

These pictures are from one of the last days before we left Browning. Stephen was teaching Isabelle and Caleb how to do infant CPR.

Swimming Pool

Isabelle at the Lake

Ian in the Lake