Internet -- it lives!

We finally have Internet at our house! (and there was much rejoicing)

We are going to increase our speed this week as we have discovered 128k just is not really "fast enough". We have Skyped with some family and friends.

Our van is in the shop. With my vast knowledge of cars and what/not I conclude there is a problem in the transmission. We'll find out when we hear back from the school's mechanic. Andrew (Loveall) said since the van sat for nearly a month between the Klanderman's leaving and our arrival this is not all together unexpected. The hills in and around our area are notoriously hard on automatic transmissions.

Spanish lessons are going pretty well. We discovered four hours of lessons each day is too much for Abigail so we have decided to reduce her to two hours a day. We originally had Joy slated to do one week but with Abigail's changes Joy will be able to continue a second week (at two hours too).

We also discovered that the morning time slot (8am - noon) is not as good for us as we had thought it would be. CSA (Spanish school) is being awesome and is allowing us to attend at a non-standard hour (1-5pm).

Changing gears: rain. From what I hear it is still raining in New Hampshire...Previously I had heard a lot of stories about Guatemalan rain and how it rains very hard then stops. Having now experienced it in person I can say it is absolutely incredible. It goes from sunny to torrential downpour in a matter of minutes. And then back to sunny.

Well, that is about it for now.

Thanks for everyone's continued prayers.

-knme