How Time Flies....

Hello Everyone

This week has been crazy busy. I've been going out at night a few times with our host to meet with some people and to tutor others. I'm really starting to think that God had me spend all that time at Grand Valley studying math and science so that I'd be prepared to help my host tutor some of these families. Anyway, I'm really enjoying working with these students. School is just ending here, so most of our tutoring is over. That's kind of sad.

Most of those you who read this and who know anything about me at all, know that I really enjoy a good meal. Did I ever get my fill yesterday! Yesterday was a marathon of cross-cultural eating. Our ESL students graduated yesterday morning and that was concluded with a lunch provided by the Somali Women and Children group. The food consisted of mostly some spiced rice and some pretty spicy vegetables. In the afternoon we had our end-of-the-year Homework Club party. That also included a meal that wasn't really supper but could have been. This kids ate pizza but the adult volunteers (ie. Kim and I) got a delicious buffet of rice, Sambus (also called Samosas if they were in India), some kind of home-made Somali cookies that were really good, and goat. Yes, that's right: I ate goat yesterday. I'll let that sink in for a minute

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And then for supper, we went to some friends of our hosts where we feasted on lasagna, salad, spicy chicken legs, mango shakes, popcorn, and Somali tea (which is amazing, by the way). I don't think I've eaten that much in one day in a very long time.

Today, our hosts had a meeting with their boss so Kim and I slept in a caught up on some reading. After lunch we went to our of our friends houses and measured for some drywalling that we'll be working on tomorrow. We finished up our day with they bike clinic that we've been working at on Thursdays. (On a side note, I can now fix bikes. Not terribly exciting, but a big step for me nonetheless)

I want to thank you all again for keeping Kim and I in your prayers. We'll be home in just over a week and I'm sure we'll have all kinds of cool stories.

Nabad Geliyo
Alex