New Friends

Polly and the girls are getting along so well. They love having and older sister and she is sweet to play with them whenever she doesn't have too much homework. School is hard for her ... she is very smart, but of course, has to translate everything so it takes longer to do the work.

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Melody doesn't understand because the first two weeks Polly was here she had lots of time to play and now "all she thinks about is homework." I told Melody she will understand when she gets older.

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There is never a dull moment at our house and we are having a fun time learning to be a family. There is much we can learn from each other and I am excited to see what God has in store for us over the next months.

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Tony is a bit outnumbered, but he is used to that. And we do have another Thai studend that comes to visit us often and help balance out the house. His name is Champ.

Family Addition

We have a new princess at our house. Her name is Polly and she is an exchange student from Thailand who will be staying with us for the school year. It is fun to have a teen-ager in our home again. She is very sweet and the girls have adopted her as "big sister" already. We look forward to teaching her things about America and getting to learn about Thailand. Tony has already began to teach her things like "we'll cross that bridge when we get to it", "we are just picking on you", etc... We didn't realize how often we say things that cannot be translated literally - they just don't make sense unless you know the cultural context. So it a great learning experience for all of us.