We have had a calm but busy week. I can't believe it is June already! While most of our friends from North America are getting out of school and starting a warm summer, our kids are heading back to school after a short mid term break and we are just starting the cold season. Last year (our first one here), at this time of the year, it was unseasonable warm, so we just didn't know. But now, we feel the cold. We have even had a fire in the fireplace a few days to get the edge off! The cold season here is June, July and August. But what that really means is a sort of wet and cold that just gets in your bones! We have just finished the "long rainy" season which was long and not really finished, but we thought the fall rainy season was pretty long too, so who knows? But, when it continues to rain, the run off does a lot of damage to roads and makes it extremely slippery and muddy. Thank God for 4 W Drive!
We had a banner week with work at the hospital. There was one day even that 3 things went right and Jim was smiling! Some were little things, but good none the less. We finally got our Environmental Impact Assessment moving forward (almost finished) which will impact when we can start on the pediatric wing. This has been a worry (Wasi-Wasi in Swahili) and we are so thankful that the company that was hired to do it is communicating and getting it done. We also were able to schedule a meeting that had 4-5 parties involved (getting everyone to come together at one time has been nearly impossible!) that needed to talk and settle on things before replacing the roof on the Bethany Kids Apartment building. That is where we lived when we first arrived here. The roof leaked severely from the very first rain that hit it March of 2011, and we are finally getting a contractor here to get it replaced. The meeting took place on Friday and all came out of it in agreement! Yea! They are looking at starting the job next Friday so we will have some work to do to move some people out of the top 2 apartments, but we are thankful. We also had some information about the UPS that is required for the CT scanner hook up. Any information has been good, so we are grateful for that. But, the big news is the sanitation project. We are moving forward with it now and with full support of the hospital. We have been dancing around this one for a year now, and we now have the green light and money to go forward! We have a plan and there are many things to be done in order to pull it off, but, we are confident and will start to work on it in earnest. We are happy to be dealing with the "Poop" issue again!
Tonight is a big night for Trevor's sophomore class. We are putting on a restaurant and our title is "La Trattoria." We are serving pizza, salad, bruschetta and some "to die for" desserts. It has been months in planning (serving over 200 people), but it will all come together tonight. I can't imagine running a restaurant, but I would assume that when you do it all the time, it is much easier! We had a 3 hour meeting last Tues night (I had over 6 hours of meetings that day!) and we worked in the kitchen about 3 1/2 hours last night and will start today at 9:30 and probably not end till about 10:30 tonight when all is cleaned up - Yuk!! Please pray that it will all go smoothly and will taste yummy! If I have the energy tomorrow, I will post some pictures of the event, But, I think tomorrow will be a "do nothing" kind of day!
Trevor is up taking an ACT test as we speak. I think he was ready and more importantly, he thinks he was ready! I sure hope he does well.
Please pray that we have another good week this coming week. Here is a picture that was posted on a friends blog. She and her husband are doctors here and they do amazing work. Her blog is listed on my side bar. It is paradoxuganda.blogspot.com She is an amazing writer and gives a doctors persective on what is going on here. I think they took this while on vaction. It is an amazing rainbow -
Have a great week!
In His Hands,
Jullie T.
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