Hello! We're the Finchers from Nashville, TN. Check back here often to read about our adventures in our new life at the City of Children in Ensenada, Mexico.
© Jeff & Natasha Fincher
Oct
29
Jeff posted regarding a little jack-o-lantern competition between the two of us. I’m writing to encourage you to deliberate as long as you need before voting. There is a lot at stake. You see, the looser buys the winner their favorite popsicle (coconut dipped in chocolate- yum!) So please remember to vote on the pumpkin [...]
Oct
29
We’ve had a busy but fun week so far! Last Thursday, the board of trustees for the home came to Ensenada for our annual board meeting. We all meet together once a year and discuss lots of business for the City of Children. We also make plans for the coming year. [...]
Oct
21
This week the City of Children is hosting a hardworking group from Boyd-Buchanan School in Chattanooga. The group consist of nearly thirty people, nineteen of whom are high school students. This week is their fall break, and they chose to spend it with our kids here in Mexico. Our kids seem especially excited about this group [...]
Oct
19
I know I shouldn’t be surprised with how much we are learning but I’m amazed by it. We have grown in so many different ways since we first arrived at the end of July. And yet we have so much more to learn!
One of my favorite new arena’s for learning has [...]
Oct
15
Back in May, the morning after some dear friends spent the night in our Mexican home, one friend stated “it was probably the worst night’s sleep I have ever had.” He was kept awake all night by our possessed refrigerator. Apparently it beeped every twenty minutes for the entire evening. He tried everything to silence [...]
Oct
13
Oct
10
Shortly after we returned home from school yesterday, Ricardo called to say that the home had received tickets to take forty or so kids to a circus in town within the next hour. Just minutes later four boys were leaning over the wall between our house and their dorm. Two of the boys were literally bouncing up [...]
Oct
9
Each day at school we eat our lunch on the shaded second floor patio with the other students. At lunch on Monday, we noticed a new addition to the horizon, smoke. Just behind the top of one of nearby mountains was a huge plume of deep gray smoke. We were all terribly impressed by it, [...]
Oct
4
Seven weeks ago Jeff and I met a recent high school graduate from Huntsville, AL named Molly. She moved here to learn Spanish at the same language school that Jeff and I are attending, just a week after we arrived. Due to our similar backgrounds and circumstances, we have gotten to know each other [...]
