Of bad aliens, charcoal, watermelon seeds, snoring, and lotsa "now now"s (aka More pictures)

Hey all! Rachel, Brook and Grace here for the rest of the team. Mr. and Mrs. Aspinwall are teaching the adult english class right now. A lot has happened in the last couple days!
First, electricity came back on Monday night! (thank you all for the prayer!) This made life a bit easier around the Bunnell home.
Then, we had a scare with little Sierra Bunnell. While we were all either at school or helping Becca cook, she got into Brook's allergy medicine. We counted 25 missing pills, but we're not sure exactly how many she swallowed. She's fine now, after the Bunnell's fed her three bowl fulls of charcoal. She's as happy as ever. =)
Today, Mr. Cragoe is feeling more than a bit under the weather. If ya'll could keep him in prayer, twould be much appreciated (and needed). We're not sure exactly what caused it, but it's kept him pretty low for most the day. Also, pray that the rest of us will stay healthy while over here.

Other than that, classes have been going just swimmingly! Grace, Rachel, and Joe are all taking turns coming to the school and helping with skits and such, and staying back with Becca to help with food, chores, and Sierra and Weston. (Who we have a picture of). The first school day, we all came to the school just to get an idea of what it's like. Yesterday was Grace and Rache's turn to stay home with Becca, and today it's Joe's.

The highschool kids started to warm up the second day, and were even more open and talkative today. The fact that we starting offering prizes for participation might of helped. =P Today we also played a game with them, which they thought was hilarious.
Mr. Cragoe did get talked to after class though by Munkuu, one of the students. Apparently, it's considered rude to throw things here in Mongolia. When we passed out cards for one of the activities, we just sort of threw them onto the table in front of the student. Tomorrow we're going to apologize if we did anything to offend the students, and be more careful in the future.
Mr. and Mrs. Aspinwall are teaching the adult class right now. The adults seem to be much more talkative and open to participation! Yesterday when we had them do the skits, they were practically jumping over each other to get up to the middle. It was a good start to the week. =)
Peter made a suggestion that we invite some of the more interested students to the weekly bible study that they hold here at the school on Fridays. We'll see who can/will show up to that!
We're also planning on having an American style breakfast on Friday morning just for the teenaged kids.
This week is definitely looking up! =)

So, we're putting up some more pictures that we weren't able to before. Most of these are from Rachel's and Brook's camera, with a couple new ones from Mr. Cragoe's.
A couple are from the trip here.. a few from our first couple of days.. a few of us practicing skits for the classes.. and a few of the Bunnell's kids..us fixing the fences..etc. =) The one of us with the gal in the blue is us with an Olympic athlete. There were a bunch from them on our plane to China.

Hope all is well back in the States!
Go with God,
G, R, B

p.s. okaaaay...so, we weren't able to load *all* the pictures that we wanted to right now, cuz the second class got out and it's time for us to leave the school. But we got a few up, and we'll post more of them later.




Grace helping Becca in the kitchen
Joe and Mr. Cragoe doing our "morph" faces
Sharon, Weston, Gracie, Rach, and Sierra
The fence that needed fixing
Mr. Cragoe and Peter fixin' away

Rach and Sierra
Sierra and Weston Bunnell
ummm.... yea
Sierra getting into Mac n' cheese.
Us with a U.S. Olympic Team member!!

In the plane
Brook trying on Gracie's sweater in the plane
Grace and Rach on the car ride to Sukhbataar