almost done... sad day!!!

It's hard to believe that we leave in only 2 days. This year, the trip has been a whirlwind. It has been a huge learning experience if nothing else.

We just finished VBS a couple hours ago, and now Jeremie and I are at a cyber so he can print out the English class certificates for graduation tonight. VBS went incredibly well thanks to Susan's planning. We had 100 kids the first day, and roughly 175 kids the second day, down from 300 last year, but we were signficantly more organized this year, and we couldn't have handled more let alone fit them in the church. Everything went incredibly smoothly - by African standards at least.

It is true that we scrapped the internet cafe idea. I plan to post in the next couple days our reasoning and why that happened. However, we have been offered some land to buy, which we can get for $5000 USD. It's a lot that's 54 x 55 meters and about 600 meters from the lake with a beautiful view. It's a great price, and every business-minded person we've mentioned it to says we should jump on it and that we'd be foolish not to. The price is expected to triple by next year. It is also big enough to build a very good sized guest house/convention center complex on, which is what we're leaning toward. We'll be planning that in more detail over the next couple years. Please pray for that transaction - we got the process started, but it will have to continue after we leave.

I'm sure I speak for everyone in saying that we're exhausted. It has been a busy 3 weeks. I hate to leave, but I do need some rest. I am looking forward to coming back next year already. We have built up relationships with our friends here and seen those relationships go to deeper levels. It is sad to leave them.

I pray that all is well with you, wherever this finds you.

Peace and love - amahoro inurukundo