On Monday the academy had their final house competition which was basically a huge field day/track and field meet! Not exactly the best day for "winter" to blow in to Lilongwe. Yes it was actually cold (in the 40's ) with drizzly rain and wind and by 5:30 pm we had to end the event prematurely due to the weather! I have to admit.... I was actually freezing and couldn't wait to get home. I was actually missing my hottub!
On Wednesday I met a really cool nurse that is here with her husband for the summer. She wanted to come to Partners in Hope with me so I had told her I would pick her up after dropping the kids at school. Unfortunatly the guy that gave me directions to her guest house said to turn after the Peoples market instead of before the Peoples market. So after driving around unpaved dirt roads for about 45 minutes I totally happened to find her guest house just by chance. We had a great day at Partners and I was able to help her and her husband find a place to house sit while they are here. For some reason traffic was horrible that night and I managed to get home just in time for the power to go out! Dinner that night....PB and J!
Thursday night was astronomy night for Kimmy's 4th grade class. We made it home just in time to grab some quick dinner and head back to the school. Ryan took his telescope and helped the kids see some of the planets. The kids had a blast because their teacher had a huge bonfire built and they got to make s'mores. It was really dark since it was a new moon so lots of stars were visible. Later that night we went to the concert finale for the college bands and choirs. There were so many people that they were spilling out onto the front lawn. It was great to see and hear but made for a very late night considering that we are up at 5am most mornings.
This was the last week of classes for African Bible College where David teaches a business class, so after the final papers were turned in on Tuesday him and Sam (he co-teaches with David) were left with a huge pile of papers to grade before graduation. Their class was supposed to be limited to 30 students but being the only business class offered there was high demand and they ended up with 62 students in their class.
Friday after a meeting for the clinic at ABC I spent the majority of the day helping 3 other ladies from the campus and a handful of college kids decorate the hotel for the senior banquet. We had to blow up 120 + balloons to hang in bouquets from the ceiling (helium not available), banners to hang, tables to decorate etc.... Then it was back to ABC to pick up the kids from school. I am not usually that forgetful but I actually got half way home before I realized that I had left Linda ( the girl we transport to and from school) at the college so I had to turn around and go back to get her. Then Ryan had a friend spending the night so we had to go to to his house to get his stuff which officially got me home with about 1/2 and hour to get all dressed up for the banquet! For everyone who knows us you know that dressing up isn't exactly in our comfort zone but dressed up we were!
Saturday we had to be at the golf course by 8am to set up rental tents which took us until 1pm because we managed to get a nail in one of our tires and had to get it fixed! Then we ran home, showered and headed back out to college graduation at African Bible College. David could have walked as a professor but decided he didn't want to. It took 3 1/2 hours to graduate 42 students. There were lots of speeches by people like the US ambassador, and religious advisor to the president. After graduation we had to go take down one of our tents and then reset it up at a new location! I managed to get out of that since Ryan was home waiting for dinner!
Today David, Sam and Jay headed to South Africa for some business stuff. They are actually driving so we are praying for their safety! They will be in Johannesberg until Friday....when the World Cup starts. After having lunch with some friends from church and tearing down all the tents from yesterday I am heading to bed early so that we can start all over again in the morning!
I thought life would move at a slower pace here but we have managed to keep ourselves very busy. Thankfully the kids are out of school in 1 1/2 weeks and we will be moving closer to town very soon!
We are still waiting to file our fostering paperwork. Hopefully next Monday will be the day that we can get that done. Also still no word on when Gift's police case will close. I am possibly going to go on a village mission with Ministry of Hope Crisis Nursery (the one where Gift is) on Thursday so I will let you know how that goes!
Thanks to all our friends and family who have been praying for us and supporting us ......we appreciate it more than you know!
Love Becky
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