HI, Merry Christmas
So it feels really weird to say that, as I look outside and the sun is shining and the weather is nice and still hot enough to sweat.

Things have been really busy here. David Narita got home last Tuesday and then Lara’s Mom came last Friday. I have been teaching English three times a week and am there from anywhere between 1 and a half to 2 hours each time. I have no clue how to teach English so, I have been praying a lot. It has been very interesting to teach through an interpreter, She is learning along with the girls and speaks quite a lot of English. She just need refining and help with pronunciation. I have 6 students. There is (I have no clue how to spell their names so this is probably bad guessing) Socheit who is 18, Sopeip who is 17, Sopea who is 15. The little kids are all under 9. There is Soklee, Ratan, Terree. The girl who is translating is Sopaa and she is 19. It was very confusing at first to keep them all straight, but now I think I have it down. This last Monday Sopaa could not come, so I tried to teach without a translator. We went over what we had already learned and went a little farther with numbers and stuff. Then I had them fill in the blanks and mixed up letters and numbers and they all did very well and were able to identify almost everything. They have a hard time with thirty. They always want to call it three-tee. I was very happy with how much they have retained and if I gave grades, they all would have gotten an A+.

I have also been busy Christmas shopping and packing and figuring out what I need to take home and what can stay here, like clothes that are really stretched out and stuff like that. It feels really weird to be preparing to leave because I have just gotten used to living here. I was looking at my shampoo (which I am leaving with Ellie) and then it hit, oh my goodness I am leaving in 6 days!!! So It is happy and sad, I have to say goodbye to all the friends that I have made here, but I am really looking forward to seeing my friends and family in the states again. My Mom told me that I can’t plan anything for next Friday cuz she has plans for me and I was thinking it is crazy to me that I have plans with my Mom barely over a week away. So I am super excited to come home now and it is getting hard to wait.
Prayer
That I would find a job, that I would adjust back to the California time zone well, Wisdom, and that another English teacher would come along so that the girls can continue studying .
Thank you all so much for praying and all the emails I really love them!!!!!!! Talk to you in person soon!
I have no clue why this is all underlined and I can't make it stop, hahahaha this is kinda funny.....