Cuz' the sun is shining! It's a perfect day to be ALIVE! It's a wonderful life!

It's a wonderful life by Natalie Grant. This song has been playing in my head the last couple of days. She is right, THE LORD IS RIGHT, it is a great day to be alive and to worship him! Even though I am in a different country I have been able to worship in a different language it has been great! This past Sunday's service and some others have just been a blessing, singing songs of other languages that ALL PRAISE GOD!
  Another week of school has gone by and it was a great one! I started off Monday morning with giving staff devotions. I was very nervous but in the end it was ok and God's message was heard. It was a four day week this week which was awesome! O and also Laura's birthday (she is the first grade teacher) so lots of fun w/ that to come this weekend! I feel very blessed that God has called me here these six months!
I'm excited to have fun this weekend with my friends as well as await Katie's arrival on thursday the 4th!!! I am so excited!

A sidenote on fundraising:
I am still in need of support. Thanks so much to you all who have given so far you are amazing! I have only received half of the support which means in march I will be out of money. So please continue to pray for me if you can support that is great PRAYERS ARE ALWAYS THE BEST!!!!
Please pray for my class as well!
THANKS MANY BLESSINGS!

First full week over!

Hey everyone!
The first full week of school is over! It went great! A little stressful because I gave a lot of tests this week. More stressful for the kids than for me but they did good! :-) I'm so excited for next week to start its the third quarter, so it will be all fresh and new! Mrs. Brader, or Heather another young teacher from 2nd and 3rd grade will be coming in to teach with me as Miss Kellum their teacher comes back! She just graduated from college and ready to bring in the new style with me! I'm so excited!
I am so excited to have her in the class. We will be splitting up the grades somewhat! So it will be half of the load, which is always good. I just can't wait but lots of planning to do. Oh and I will have to do report cards this weekend to! Oh the joy! :-)
I hope u all are doing well thanks again for all of your support!

My class!

Here are my lovely 4th and 5th graders! We are missing one but they are a great bunch of kids and I love teaching them!

ACSI Conference in Germany

Hey everyone!!!
   I hope you are all enjoying my blog pictures will be coming soon when I have time! Teaching is busy busy busy! Ok so I am going to hopefully go to the ACSI conference in Germany during Spring Break. I would really love to go and learn more about serving the Lord through education. I am in the process of saving money to go there and hopefully will raise enough. Which is the main reason why I'm posting. I am only half way at my goal of 6,000 for the 6 months I'm here. So anyone who feels called to support can either write a check to me and give it to my mom for those of you who know her or can go through my mission agency RCE:

Ok so what you can do is send a check: Make it out to RCE International & put my account #13907
on the memo line. The account number is important don't forget and and they ask that you do NOT write my name on it just the # not sure why hehe.
 Then send it to:

RCE International
PO Box 4528
Wheaton, IL 60189




HERE R SOME PICS OF CAMARMA!!!! 

Thanks so much for reading my blog and support the Lord's work in Spain!

Snow Day!

My first full week of school was about to start this Monday but then we had a SNOW DAY!!!!!!! A rare thing for Spain. It was not even that much snow but since they don't get snow here they close schools and work places because they cannot get rid of it. They really just have to wait until it melts!
I had a great snow day! (PICS WILL COME SOON) I played outside with the kids and then watched a movie with Jesse (One of the girls also living here)! It was so relaxing! We decided to go on a walk up the hill behind the house, what a gorgeous view!!! God's creation is really just so beautiful! On our way down though it was slippery and Jesse sprang her ankle. (NOT GOOD) Please pray for her that it heals quickly.After that I got to hang out with my great friend Laura who also teaches at the school! Overall it was a great day!!!

HERE'S MY ADDRESS!!!

Hey everyone! I know some people were wondering my address. Here it is:

Ashley Applegarth 

Evangelical Christian Academy 

Calle La Manda 47

     28816 

Camarma de Esteruelas 

(Madrid) Spain

I MADE IT!

Hey everyone I made it to Spain safe and sound. It is so great to be back and see all of my friends! I love it! I am still jet lagged though but it will be better soon. The first day of school went great! It was pretty easy and the children were wonderful! I am looking forward to this year so much. I want to thank you so much for your prayers and support it has been wonderful! Well i'm falling asleep I will write and post more soon!