I’ve survived the first 4 weeks of school pretty well. I wanted to let you all know that I will be sending out a newsletter sometime in October – so you may look forward to that.

I have begun Tagalog lessons and now know how to greet someone – based on the time of day. There is Magandang umaga (Good morning), Magandang tanghali (Good lunch), Magandang hapon (Good afternoon) and Magandang gabi (Good evening). I’ve been working on pronunciation and glottal stops. Since the Filipinos are not used to hearing their language spoken by a non-Filipino, we have to learn pronunciation carefully, otherwise they won’t understand us.

This last weekend Faith Academy had a Community

picnic. I sat with a couple of families of my students.

All 4 Jesus, the squatter kids ministry has not started yet, but it will be starting this coming Sunday. I will put more photos and information up about that when I have the chance.

Well, there is a huge storm coming up – I better get off the computer now! God bless,

Betsy