Creche room with Sophie’s fav che che Agatha from Slovekia.

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It’s the first day of school for all of us today.

This is the schedule for most days
9am – 12.45pm – School for all
12.45 – 2pm – Lunch for all
2 – 3.15pm – School for all (Sophie naps)
3.15pm – 5.30pm – Work duties (Alternate days, fridays and weekends are free for those parents with young children, that means us)
5.30pm – Dinner
Most nights are free except Monday nights where we have a Marriage Video to watch.

For today, we had breakfast together as family in our home unit before base worship. Base worship is when the entire base gathers together for worship. That happens every Monday. That includes all the kiddos! Ooo it was so cute to see all the kids take different percussion instruments and flags and started playing and waving around, just for fun, not necessarily in tune or according to beat. So nice.

After worship at 9.50am, we brought the kids to the creche/homeschool. There are 3 ladies looking after about 2 babies, 3 toddlers and 2 that are 4-5 years old. For a start they’ll all be together but when it comes to nap/craft time, they will be separated 3 ways – babies have a little room with cots, the toddlers have a room and the kindy kids have another room of their own. The older ones have a homeschool room where they can do their work with someone watching over them. During playtime, they’ll all play in the big playground where there is a trampoline, swings, play cars, and a little adventure area where they can climb up and down.

Sophie was already quite familiar with the play area so she quickly settled in. Her fav che che Agatha was there so she was very happy. We said bye and left. That went pretty easily.

During our tea time (about 11.15pm), James and I took turns to pop in to see her. I brought her hat for her coz it was getting quite sunny (It alternates between sun and rain thru the day). When I left, she started to cry! ooooo… but her teacher said she was easily distracted and stopped quickly. Phew!

So thank God Sophie did very well on her first day – almost 3 hrs on her own at the creche.

On our side, the staff did the introductions and sharing about their life stories. As usual, YWAM style – total openness. We spent the afternoon working on a collage on our personal life – from birth till now. It’s our turn tomorrow to share using these collages.

After lunch, I took Sophie back to the unit for a nap while James went back to class to work on his collage while I did mine in the home unit. Sophie was supposed to go back to creche at 2pm but she didn’t wake up till 3pm so I decided to just keep her in the unit and spend time with her. We had tea and did a bit of homeschooling. I’m still trying to figure out how to let her nap and go back to class. From tomorrow onwards, we will have afternoon sessions.

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