ESL Picnic

As a finale to the end of our first ESL course, we had a combined picnic with both of our English classes on Friday, June 1st. There were 17 of us all together and it was such a great time! For those of you who receive our newsletters, this entry could be another window into the view of our 'home' in Georgia.

We have been sharing how wonderful it is to have a year of experience and friendship building behind us as we begin this second year. We thank God for the many Georgian friends He has brought into our lives and look forward to many more fun and meaningful times with them.

On Friday, we went to a place called Turtle Lake and for the first half we had a great spot amongst the trees where we enjoyed our picnic and then we went down to the lake. I had taken my guitar so we did lots of singing which was great too!

The girls were dancing and teaching the little girls motions to a song.

Here they are preparing and cooking the meat.

This is Irakli and his niece Salome.

Here is the group - not all of the students from either class could be there.

Ayanna loves tomatoes! As you can see she is eating it like an apple :)

This is Teo, Natia (our babysitter) and Vika.

I think almost everyone there knows how to play the guitar - Georgians are very musical!!

Tamuna had fun with Ayanna in the lake.

Lado and Nino, one of the main worship leaders for the church.

Gio, Teo and Irakli - all from Shirley's class.

Juan and Irakli

This was after the time at the lake. We found a great place to sit and sing together.

Ayanna and Salome had a rough start but by the end of the day they were friends.