Update

So I know I just posted pictures from Florence, but I thought I would update everyone on what is going on over here in Africa. We just finished our last week of school in 2010, and we are now off for 3 weeks! As much as Grant and I love our students and teaching here, we realized yesterday that we needed a break just as much as they do. We've realized that with all the inconsistencies with our house here, work is the only place we find solace and consistency. I mean how many people do you know that say that???
We have still been dealing with the house going wrong. What is that movie called with Tom Hanks from the late 80s where he buys this fancy house and it falls apart on them. It's sort of like that. One day recently we walked in and the molding in our bedroom had collasped in shambles all over our room and carpet. We don't have a vacuum so by hand Grant picked it up for about 30 minutes.
*Side note- Poor Rosemary brushes our carpet with a rough little brush....things we take for granted. We refuse to buy a vacuum here because they are like $300 or more.
Then people came the next day on a rainy day and fixed it, but dragged mud into our room. Awesome. THEN a few days later, we came home to our bathroom floor like a bathtub because our toilet overflowed. THEN yesterday we find out our borehole is broken again and we have to get water delivered to our house in order to do anything for the next 3 weeks. I hope you are laughing after reading that, because we would like someone to find comic relief in our African saga.
Really and truly though, with much effort on my part and of course Mr. Always Positive Grant, we have continued to find ways to be positive and look on the bright side.This experience attests to how easy we have it in the states. Make no mistake people, you are lucky over there!
But we are lucky here too. Because people have to go through so many challenges, heartache and hard times here, they are very compassionate, sincere people with tough skin and a big heart. We have met so many amazing people. I mean we already have a full schedule over this holiday because we have been invited to so many things.
We will be here for 2 weeks and then off on our trip with Maggie (my sister) and her husband Winston. We have lots of fun things planned including a caneoing/camping trip on the Upper Zambizi in Vic Falls. Not going to lie, a little nervous about this one because of all the hippos that live in that water and the fact that I just found out we will be in inflatable canoes. Sketchy. So keep us in your prayers and thoughts over the New Year while we are canoeing with the hippos and sleeping under mosquito nets and the stars.
So to sum it all up, we miss all of you. We miss our friends and family every day and talk about it every day. We can't wait to be home with people we love and Twain's, mexican food, brunch, fish tacos, good beer, baseball, good beer, good beer and good beer. We are ready to get fat when we come home!
Hope this update finds everyone well. We love and miss you all and Happy Holidays. Christmas won't be the same here without you all.