Three Years On Statia: November 2013

After a weekend filled with congratulations to Jase and his graduating class it was the whole SDA school award night the following Monday.

Jase and Courtney had such a wonderful and successful year at school thanks to their hard work and the hard work of some great teachers!!!

Courtney got one of three awards for the most outstanding student in her class – I did hear a roomer from ‘someone’ in the office that she had the highest GPA in her whole class!

She also got medal after medal for her performance in Track and Field this year!

Here she is with one of her most favorite teachers – Teacher Anna!! Courtney had a fantastic night!!

Jase also again had a big night to add to his last three days! His Spelling Bee Award for the best speller in the school, metals for track and field and he and his best buddy Sharique were voted to be the best sportsmen of the games!!!

Always and always there is a farewell to say. Katie Bridge and her kids said farewell to this lovely little island – see you in Canada!

Payton, Stella and Lucy!

I wanted to take some pictures of just random things on Statia – I really wish I had taken more but they are really nice to look at.

In the last few days of school Jase got to do job training – when I grew up we called Job Shadow. A few weeks earlier her chose to do it at a restaurant/hotel called Golden Era. He had a fantastic time on his first day learning about working in the food industry part of the hotel, setting tables, washing dishes, serving customers and even getting a tip from one of the customers!

Day 2: Jase did such a marvellous job that the manager of the hotel invited him to come work there during the summer if Jase was looking for something to do!

Courtney started having her friends at school start to sign her book. My friend Joanna White-Spanner was very sweet gave me some wonderful sturdy coil books for the kids to make into their very own autograph/message books. So when we go back to Canada they will always be able to look in their books and read messages from all sorts of people we have gotten to know and love.

As part of a closure to celebrate Jase’s graduation the class had their own special dinner night at Lynn’s Restaurant – formerly know as Papaya. He said it was a fantastic meal and great fun with his friends!

Courtney had a very last day of school with her friends and wonderful teacher! The last few weeks leading up to her last day she collected special things from around our house to give to her classmates as gifts to remember her. So we wrapped them all up and had some special time with the class to hand them out.

Gift to Winston

Shaydon

Nicole

Reshendrea, Zique

Shammil

May-Rubya opening her gift.

We also made a treat to share with the kids and they also signed her signature/message book.

CTR!! CHOOSE THE RIGHT!! We also gave them each a CTR ring which helps you to Choose The Right with any choice placed before you! The kids seemed to really like them!! It’s a ring from our church, meant for everyone, to remind each of us that we are very special and worth making the righteous choices that will strengthen us and who we are – as children of our Heavenly Father.

I missed the part when Courtney’s teacher said, “We have a problem going on!” and the kids said, “What problem?” and teacher Anna said, “Courtney’s the problem!” And she had Courtney come up to the front of the class and said that Courtney is leaving the island and that Court would be very missed. She then presented Courtney with a sweet card signed by all of her classmates and a nice gift to remember them by. It was a sad moment with a few tears for her. Courtney truly treasures these.

Courtney later gave Teacher Anna the gift that she made especially for her. Courtney made her a necklace, placed it in a cute heart tin and decorated a pretty card for her. Courtney just LOVES teacher Anna and will miss her dearly xoxo.