This week has been a winding up week as we will be leaving on Monday for our 2 week travel before coming home.
On Tues, we had a wonderful big rain - & it cooled things down so much!
On Wed., we were invited to the Oldenburg’s house for dinner. As we were walking to their house, we started to see huge flying termites coming out of holes in the ground in mass swarms. By the time we reached their house, they were starting to swarm at all the windows & around all the lights. These are known to come out shortly after the first really big rain. They will swarm around the lights, lose their wings, & die shortly after. The Africans like to collect the bugs, fry them, & eat them salted – like popcorn. I didn’t choose to try them, but several of our students did & reported “They were OK.”
We had our last Thurs. night devo with the local missionaries on Thurs. It was a very emotional time as we are realizing we are heading out of here soon. I think the Harding group has been a big boost for them & they will really miss us when we’re gone. They have worked so hard to make this a great stay for us & have been such a blessing to us. They have driven us everywhere (since Harding has no vehicle here YET), arranged for everything to be ready for us, & just served us in general.
On Friday, Janice & I & a couple of students started baking cakes, making Jello, & preparing for our big dinner on Sat. This was the last day of finals & a small group of students decided to make the trip to Livingston to go Bungee Jumping as their final Hurrah. That night, they had a tea for their Tonga tutors – mentors from the George Benson College. They enjoyed hot tea & cookies & then had singing & dancing with lots of enthusiasm. They are really going to miss those friendships. Most of the girls’ tutors had suits made for them as going away presents. They have some great looking outfits to wear for their chapel presentations.
Saturday – today – was the big luncheon to thank the workers who have helped us & the missionaries who have also served us. We served a huge pot of stew made from Sable & Eland meat, rice, salad, bread, cakes, & jello. Everyone ate way TOO MUCH but it sure was good. We presented small gifts to the Zambian lecturers & all of our workers.
We had some sad news this afternoon as we found out that one of the babies that had been at the Haven had died. They had 3 babies that had been sick & they took them to Matcha which is the best hospital around here – around a 3 hour drive on awful roads. They had not been able to figure out what was wrong with her, but she would not eat & had diarrhea all the time. We were hoping to be away from here without having any babies die – it is just a very sad reality of this place.
We’re starting to get things packed up around here. It’s hard to get all of the things you need for 3 months into 1 suitcase & just as hard to get part of those things + all the souvenirs you buy into the same suitcase to return. In addition, we’re packing up trunks of Harding’s things – books, paper, batteries, games, etc. & inventorying all that to store away for the next group that comes. Hopefully, they won’t need to bring nearly as many things with them next year.
On Tues, we had a wonderful big rain - & it cooled things down so much!
On Wed., we were invited to the Oldenburg’s house for dinner. As we were walking to their house, we started to see huge flying termites coming out of holes in the ground in mass swarms. By the time we reached their house, they were starting to swarm at all the windows & around all the lights. These are known to come out shortly after the first really big rain. They will swarm around the lights, lose their wings, & die shortly after. The Africans like to collect the bugs, fry them, & eat them salted – like popcorn. I didn’t choose to try them, but several of our students did & reported “They were OK.”
We had our last Thurs. night devo with the local missionaries on Thurs. It was a very emotional time as we are realizing we are heading out of here soon. I think the Harding group has been a big boost for them & they will really miss us when we’re gone. They have worked so hard to make this a great stay for us & have been such a blessing to us. They have driven us everywhere (since Harding has no vehicle here YET), arranged for everything to be ready for us, & just served us in general.
On Friday, Janice & I & a couple of students started baking cakes, making Jello, & preparing for our big dinner on Sat. This was the last day of finals & a small group of students decided to make the trip to Livingston to go Bungee Jumping as their final Hurrah. That night, they had a tea for their Tonga tutors – mentors from the George Benson College. They enjoyed hot tea & cookies & then had singing & dancing with lots of enthusiasm. They are really going to miss those friendships. Most of the girls’ tutors had suits made for them as going away presents. They have some great looking outfits to wear for their chapel presentations.
Saturday – today – was the big luncheon to thank the workers who have helped us & the missionaries who have also served us. We served a huge pot of stew made from Sable & Eland meat, rice, salad, bread, cakes, & jello. Everyone ate way TOO MUCH but it sure was good. We presented small gifts to the Zambian lecturers & all of our workers.
We had some sad news this afternoon as we found out that one of the babies that had been at the Haven had died. They had 3 babies that had been sick & they took them to Matcha which is the best hospital around here – around a 3 hour drive on awful roads. They had not been able to figure out what was wrong with her, but she would not eat & had diarrhea all the time. We were hoping to be away from here without having any babies die – it is just a very sad reality of this place.
We’re starting to get things packed up around here. It’s hard to get all of the things you need for 3 months into 1 suitcase & just as hard to get part of those things + all the souvenirs you buy into the same suitcase to return. In addition, we’re packing up trunks of Harding’s things – books, paper, batteries, games, etc. & inventorying all that to store away for the next group that comes. Hopefully, they won’t need to bring nearly as many things with them next year.
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