Now that you have heard from both Art and Michael I thought you would like to hear a little bit about what we are all doing now that we have all settled in. Art as you know is busy fixing everything and anything that breaks. He will be wiring all the houses here on the living compound for the town electric. This will allow us to have lights etc. the couple nights a week that we have power to our end of town.

Michael is busy with school. He is in the 10th grade this year and is enjoying school, except for Math, which I am pretty sure he will never like. He does Biology and a writing class with Claire Harvey and they both are enjoy their big writing project of the year, a book. They are writing a historical novel that takes place in the medieval time period, and they are having fun coming up with a time line and names for the characters as well as the plot line. It will be fun to read their final project. Claire is a talented artist and is also doing the illustrations.

I have been able to stay busy now that the Harvey’s are back. I do school with Michael in the mornings then do writing with Isabelle then writing and Biology with Claire and Michael. The rest of my day is spent doing some communications for Joe as well as our own emails. While this might not seem like a big deal, emails are our life line here.

I still struggle with the language here and rely on Michael for most all my communications here at the house. I am able to do Marketing on my own but not a whole lot more than that still. It is very frustrating for me and I am trying to learn but speaking French is not my strong point. Olivia has started teaching the Wegner’s and I Lingala each Wednesday afternoon and I hope to learn that more quickly than I am learning French.

All in all I think we have really started to adjust to living here and the talk here has changed from I can’t wait to go home because I miss this or that. Now it is more I can’t wait to go visit everyone so we can bring back this or that. Most every conversation to do with wanting to bring back something revolves around food. Still, I am pretty sure that is what we think about missing the most.

Thank you all for your prayers and support, our survival here depends on them.