Looking Forward to Christmas!!

Hi all!

Christmas is coming! Nate and I love it here and definately have come to call it home, but we are looking forward to going to see all you guys.

(Right) this is a common view in our area, a church of old-order mennonites. There are rows of horse and buggy all around this church. Last sunday we went to a couple from the church for lunch, and on the way we past an old-order mennonite church that had just let out. The road was packed with carts. The couple's house we were going to grew up in that church and all their extended family are still in that church! He had a lot of interesting things to say about growing up and eventually leaving that church.

Mom! You wouldn't believe what we saw. It's this timmies that was under construction so they were working out of this trailer ish thing. It looked so weird down main street.

So I was given all of these kinda frost bitten but still usable tomatoes, so I made salsa last week! All the vegetation and flowers and such last about a month longer outside than there. It turned out a bit too mild for us so I 'm adding more jalepenos as we open the jars, but still good i think. I thought the pot of stuff looked so pretty I had to take a picture. =)

Myself and a second year student teach Gr. K-2 gym class twice a week, which can be fun and also challenging. We made a snowball fight for them one day out of cruched up paper, which was a blast! Then, of all coincidences, it started to hail outside and we had all this tiny 'snow' to eat and play with. It was great fun, and I've attached a video of it if you want to see the fun we have!

Thanks so much for all your support! We've heard from some of you but would love to hear more! Please write us! nateandtash@hotmail.com

Nate & Tash

Canoe Trip and other fun stuff

Hi Everyone!

It seemed like a while since I updated you all, so I thought I'd write a quick letter before we head off to Youth group.

Earlier this month the entire student body went on a canoe trip. There were 3 groups as we don't have that many canoes. We went down the saugeen river I believe, which is pretty calm minus a few 'rapids'. The group before us had 3 canoes tip, which made us all nervous but we came out dry!
(unfortunately I didn't get any pics as we didn't want to drop our camera in the river if we did tip=)

This month has been another busy month, but we are really enjoying it and taking in as much as we can. We've connected with most of our class and have gotten even closer to one couple. It is great to have someone to play 'settlers' with=)

The ladies went on a retreat on Wednesday to Owen Sound were we did a sort of picture scavenger hunt thing in groups to get to know each other a bit better. It was quit fun.

This past weekend we went to London to visit Nate's sister Gena and her 3 kids. The Video is of Isaiah and Nate playing Wii. We all squeezed into a 3 bedroom townhouse and had a great weekend of shopping, eating, and playing wii.

We are on our way to Youth group now, but will update more later. We also love to hear from you guys! We feel quit out of the loop here and hardly hear from anyone back home. Please send us updates as well!

Nate & Tash