New School for Caleb & Justus

 As of last Monday, both Caleb and Justus have been attending our church's
Cambodian Christian school every morning. This is a decision that has been
quite a while in coming, but the main goal of this is to get them speaking
and understanding more Khmer.

The decision really became aparent to us one Sunday morning at church. As we were there at church, Angie realized that even though Caleb have been here
in Cambodia since he was 1 1/2, he is still unable to understand the
majority of what is being said every Sunday. All these good things are said
and taught every Sunday and Caleb is missing out on it.

Over the years, we have tried some different ways for Caleb to improve in
his spoken Khmer, but it has been very slow growth. We had him study with a
couple of other friends, but that didn't last real long. Caleb has also made
a couple of good Cambodian friends in our church and he knows some
conversational Khmer, but his Khmer isn't continuing to improve like we'd
like.

So, we decided to enroll both Caleb and Justus in New Life School and
because of their limited understanding, we have started Caleb in the
Kindergarten class and Justus in the preschool class.

On the very first day, Caleb adjusted just fine and had a great time, but
Justus had a hard time going into his class, so he spent most of the morning
in Caleb's class. On the second day, Justus had a hard time leaving home to
go to school, but after he did, he had a great day in school. On the third
day, both of them left the house without a problem and had a great day.

For us parents . . . 

Every morning, we send the two boys off with a friend of ours who takes them
over to the school and then either Angie or I pick them up just before
lunch. It's been a little bit difficult for Angie and I to see both of our
boys leave the house every morning, but it's good for them and it's good for
us. We are really excited to see what is going to happen with them and how
their Khmer language skills are going to improve dramatically