November 17, 2005 - Tonight (11/17) is our last night with our family in the courtyard. We will be leaving Bobo early on Saturday morning to travel to the capital, Ouaga. We will spend one night in Ouaga before leaving to go to Ghana on the 20th.
November 11, 2005 - Things are winding down here. Although this past week has been busy.
November 4, 2005 - When I woke up at five this morning, I began thinking about the students who are currently preparing to leave on their semesters abroad. I remember last fall when I was wondering who I was going to go with and where we were going to go.
October 28, 2005- My final Jula exam is finally over, and it went extremely well! The night before our 8:30am language exam, our phone rang. It was the school administrator. She wanted us to know that the examiner couldn't come to give us our tests until 3:30pm.
October 21, 2005 - Two and a half weeks of school have already passed by for kids in our courtyard. All children six and older who can afford to pay tuition attend school. The tuition for the public schools is cheaper than the tuition
October 14, 2005 - Baby news! Twice this week, I have gotten to hold a brand new baby girl. I am sending two pictures, one is of the baby and me and the other is of the baby getting a bath.
October 7, 2005 - Breakfast at three in the morning.unthinkable! Not for the Muslims in our courtyard. We are currently in the time which they call sunkalo. If you guessed Ramadan then you would be right.
September 30, 2005 - Ethno-what? That has been the typical response of many people when I have written them and talked about the ethnography study that Alisha and I are doing.
September 23, 2005 - The wayward travelers have returned from the village. I thoroughly enjoyed the time that we spent in the village with Kathy and Miss Elsie. Alisha and I were able to observe long distance ministry.
September 15, 2005 - Sometimes it is the smallest things that remind you that what you are doing really does make a difference.
September 9, 2005 - This was the week that never seemed to end! Everything and nothing happened.
September 2, 2005 - I sometimes feel like I should be writing a book about all the different things that have happened here in Africa. Many different things happen within a week times. I guess that I will have to restrict myself to hitting the high lights or low lights as usual. Sad day.
August 26, 2005 - "We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed." 2 Corinthians 4:8-9. Over the past week, things have not been so easy in West Africa. We have been under a lot of spiritual which has come in the form of interpersonal conflict.
August 17 , 2005 - Lately the time here in Burkina has been consumed with ESL. I feel like that is all I have talked about over and over and over and over again so I will spare you this time. All I am going to say is that we are in week three of classes and things seem to be going well though the schedule is overwhelming.
August 12, 2005 - It's NEW and it's all the rage here in West Africa! What is it? It's ice! I know that ice isn't new to us but it is very rare here. Let me tell you how this ice fetish got started with our fan club.
August 5, 2005 - Somogow do? (How are you?) Everything is going well in Jula land. After what seems like months of planning, ESL has finally gotten off the ground. As you already know, Alisha and I will be teaching ESL during the remainder of our time here in Africa.
July 29, 2005 - Last Saturday we had our big ESL evaluation time. Of course, being that it is Africa, not everyone who had signed up for classes felt obliged to come to the testing.
July 22, 2005 - WARNING: This email may cause cases of alarm and extreme emotional distress!
July 14, 2005 - I want to start this journal entry by praising the Father for the prayers that He has answered. Praise the Father! Alisha and I have both gotten rid of our worms and our health has returned to normal.
July 8, 2005 - Truly, the first forty-five days that we have spent here have been amazing. Although I could go on and on about all the things that my Father has done, I will let you know what has been going on this past week.
July 1, 2005 - Living in Africa is unbelievable in SO many ways! First it’s unbelievable because anything can happen!
June 24, 2005 - This e-mail finds me finishing four weeks in Burkina! It is hard to believe that one month has already gone! Alisha and I are doing well in our language studies and we have one full week left of that.
May 28, 2005 Just wanted to let you know that Alisha and I have made it safely to West Africa.
