A Year in Africa!!!

Monday 30 June 2008

Yikes, it has been a crazy week. I don’t even know what to write, it’s all just a jumbled mess. I’m going to try to keep this one short because I have a million and one things to do.

Let’s see, last week was filled with three main things.

1. Writing reports. Yay fun stuff.
2. Musical practices, then performances. More fun than the reports. However we all got pretty sick of the songs. When you start to sing them in your dreams, you know it’s gone on for too long.
3. Packing. Also a blast.

In a little more detail, Thursday and Friday we had our musical performances. My class and the older class performed “Hoodwinked”, based on the Robin Hood story. I got to play piano for it, which was a lot of work but a lot of fun too. They did a great job, especially on Friday night.

Thursday was my 23^rd birthday. My kids were so excited about it, which was cute. I’ve never been in school on my birthday, so that was different. I walked into my classroom to find a bottle of champagne, a cake for the class, and some little gifts from Simon and Amanda. So nice of them! That night at the musical the whole crowd sang Happy Birthday, which wasn’t embarrassing at all. Haha. After the musical, the Africycle boys plus some EI people had a birthday party at the house! It was great. The boys brought out the Meier’s records which kept us occupied for hours.

On Friday night the chair of the board gave a goodbye speech, said some really nice things about me, and gave me this book that Amanda and the kids had put together. They had all written a little letter and put in a picture of themselves. So sweet, made me cry. Can’t wait to show it to people back home.

Also on Friday, Missionary John Holtz from Lilongwe and Josephine (working at the medical mission for the summer) came down to help pack up the house. I’ve been staying in the Meier’s beautiful house this year, but it was sold and we (meaning all the Meier’s stuff and myself) had to be out by the 1^st of July. So, a moving company came and packed up everything. They were suppose to come on Friday, but didn’t come til Saturday. (Yay Malawi!) They just finished up today. It was strange seeing my house for the last year get packed up in boxes. Sad. It’s been great having John and Jo here though!

So now I’m staying up at the Jones’, who are the leaders of Emmanuel International. They are so welcoming, and always have people staying with them. The Africycle boys are staying here too, so that’s fun.

This week is going to go by so quickly. I hate goodbyes. Ugh. Wednesday is my last day at Grace, and I’m really not looking forward to that. But keep looking forward, as Dad says.