Recital

Middle School Handbell Recital.

Two weeks ago, GI, had his first handbell recital. I was thrilled to watch him perform. It reminded me of when I was GI's age playing handbells at church. He did a great job. It was neat being there, front row, like a proud momma, with my camera in hand. After the recital, GI and I went on a date. We had ice cream at Mona Lisa, an ice cafe. He was a great date!

A welcomed distraction! My friend Ashley came to visit me just a few weeks ago and she couldn't have come at a more perfect time! She stayed almost a week and helped out in the dorm. Of course, we took two days off together and traveled just a little over a hour away to Colmar, France and stayed the night. The next day we ventured off and tour two little villages in the Alsatian wine country.

It was such a blessing having Ashley in "my world." She has a better working knowledge of what I do and why I do it! Ashley, also, brought me 16 dresses for the Tres Chic Dress Boutique coming up later this month for our BFA girls! Ashley works at the BSU at Mississippi State and works with the college department at their local church...thanks to everyone who donated a dress!

Me and Sonne Seniors

Me, Ash and the Seniors

Breaking News...

Starting tomorrow I will be teaching 2nd grade on Tuesday and Wednesday mornings! I'm still a RA at Sonne!!! Love those Sonne Boys! There was a staffing need in the classroom and they asked me to step in. The class started as a combined 2nd and 3rd grade class but it became clear over time to the academic gap between the two groups. Starting tomorrow I will have an "closet" classroom to teach language arts and math to four 2nd graders! I am super excited about getting back in to the classroom. At the same time, I am going to be stretched among my duties in the classroom and at the dorm where we are still adjusting to new our dorm parents.

Sitzenkirch

They're Really, Really HERE!!!

The Roegners are FINALLY here! Darren and Kristina (& Knox 2) Roegner are the dorm parents at Sonne and we've been waiting for them to finish their support raising to move from Dallas to Germany. The arrived Monday and our sub-dorm parents, the Shillings will be returning to the states next week. The Shillings have done an AMAZING job as sub-dorm parents especially since they missed all of oreientation and arrived the same day returning students came back, a day after new students arrived. Both of the Shillings boys graduated from BFA. Marty and Debbie lived in Kandern around 7 or 8 years ago and they were dorm subs back then for Sonne. We appreciate all they have done for the dorm and look forward to a great year with the Roegners!!!

Pumpkins and Dorm Fellowship

A few Sundays ago we had a pumpkin carving contest for our dorm felloship. Every Sunday evening we have a dorm fellowship which is some sort of dorm activity or an evening devotion and the always important special snack. The boys were divided into 4 groups and they came up with their own design. Three girls from Blauen, girls' dorm across the street, judged the pumpkins. The winning group won lunch from Donner's, a gyro, and 2nd place, ice cream from the Italian ice house in Kandern. For snack I made baked apples, other apple goodies and apple cider.

Hiking

This past Saturday we took the boys for a hike and grilled dinner over a bonfire. Our numbers were down over the weekend because the seniors were on their week long senior trip to Rome and the juniors were in Paris and Normandy. We were down to 12 people in the dorm: 8 boys and 4 staff members. From the dorm, we drove for about 5 minutes and then hiked the rest of the way. The boys were hiking off the trails and enjoying just being boys. We hiked for about 45 minutes until we reached some castle ruins where we camped out for the evening. Some of the boys helped Marty, sub-dorm dad, build a bonfire and others were off climbing on the ruins. We grilled bratwurst, veggies, and s'mores. Our hike took us a different way back through different villages. The hike took over a hour. It was a great time for boys to be boys!

Greg

David

CB and Debbie (sub- dorm mom)

Last Chance to Donate...

October 1st is the last day to donate formals/prom/homecoming dresses to the girls at BFA.

Collection Center:

Stephanie Ehlers House
stephdeanehlers@hotmail.com
Email her to set up a time to drop off the dresses.

She lives in Friendswood Oaks off Bay Area in Friendswood.

3117 Prince George Dr
Friendswood TX
77546

If you don't have any dresses you can also donate $5-$10 to help
with the shipping cost to Germany. Anything will help. Just put a
check in the mail to Stephanie.

*You can combine your donation with friends and have just person run it out to Stephanie.