8 weeks to go

The year has really flown by. It is hard to believe that we only have 8 more weeks of school before the we will have completed our second year of dorm parenting. It is amazing how much this job teaches you about yourself and others. We have lots of events that will eat away the time - spring musical, Junior/Senior Banquet are two of the big ones. I know that I will be sitting here with my head reeling in June wondering where the time went. For the past 2 weeks it was Spring break. I sit here now at the end of it and wonder where the time went. We enjoyed a week at the beach at a little villa outside of town and just relaxed and swam and hung out with our kids. It was nice to have that time away.

The electricity has been better and as we speak the generator is being installed. The man installing it allowed us to put a deposit down and we are continuing to pray for the money. It will be a huge help in getting all of the laundry done and not having to walk around with flashlights! The internet has been painfully intermittent which makes communication challenging. It is not strong enough for a decent skype call most times, but hopefully that will improve with time. In a place where the infrastructure is growing beyond the country, it makes it difficult for the country to keep up. I think that is where Senegal is currently. Internet, electricity, water all continue to be a challenge for the ever growing country. It is still our biggest challenge, one that we continue to have to be stretched to not go crazy by it! There have been many days that I would have packed it in, but I know that this is where we are supposed to be so we deal with it!

We continue to miss our family and friends and though we haven't started counting down - realize that we will be back in the US in 14 months for our furlough. We continue to thank you for your prayers and support of our family.

Happenings

Life continues to be busy here at school - below are some pictures of an event called Sr. Cafe, where acts perform and all the proceeds go to the Senior class. I performed as well as Zach. Zach is in the Chamber Choir and also performed a little medley - both videos are on Facebook.
Also Zach and Faith participated in a 3 school tournament which includes track and field, volleyball and soccer. Faith ran the 800 meters and did so great. She lacks my competitive spirit so we were working on that with her and she got 4th out of 10. She did great! Zach's volleyball team got 3rd in his age group and he played great!


Faith dressed up as a cat for the cafe. The theme was Jammin in the Jungle.







Spring break is coming up for us next week - this is where all of the boys go home to their families and we get to relax for 2 weeks. We are really looking forward to this time to regroup as a family. The electricity has been horrible - last night we lost power for over 12 hours. The day before we only had power for 4 hours. The school is in the process of trying to raise money for a generator for the dorms. When we have no electricity - no laundry gets done, when it is in the evening, the boys have to do their homework by a some lamps. We are currently running a battery setup up but with the long outages they are not able to keep up. We are praying that God provides the money as it is very difficult right now. We are praying that Senelec (the country electric co.) can figure out what needs to be done, but we have heard that it is only going to get worse. It is very trying on everyone's patience!!! The school is putting in a generator today for the school, but they don't have enough money to cover the dorms as well. So please pray with us that the funds will come in.

Thanks for continuing to lift our family in prayer and we continue to thank you for your support of our family!