Christopher: “She’s sooooo nice!”
Lisa (and it’s Lisa like you would say it, not the Ligh-za that Kevin has been selling as the proper pronunciation for months) arrived at 7 pm yesterday after a day of busses and planes (Radebeul-Berlin-Frankfurt-Chicago-Lansing).
Lisa’s English is very very good…there is some vocabulary that is missing at times, but, I can only hope Kevin knows German as well as Lisa knows English some day….
The big arrival drama was with the dogs; Lisa didn’t list a problem with dogs on her application, but, it turns out that she was bit by a neighbor’s dog at some point and she is more than a little afraid of them now. Wiley and Holly (and any dog really) are and were super-excited to meet her, and after Wiley completely flopped over on his back Lisa gave him the attention he wanted and he took off…seems to be going ok, although the dogs were outside this morning when Lisa woke up and missed her going up to the shower, so, when she came down they dissolved into a fit of barking (because they forgot someone new was in the house).
Neighborhood kids have stopped by and said ‘hello’; Lisa seemed overwhelmed/surprised by our backyard and the wetland. Said nice things about the house, we said wait until Tuesday when they do the potluck dinner at a few different houses (we know the addresses; some of those houses will easily have double the square footage of ours).
Lisa was understandably pretty tired and went to bed early on Monday night. Tuesday is the first day of school so we’ll see what that brings, OHS is several times larger than the small school back home.
