Did You Here That?

December 15, 2010 (day 931) 5:22pm
Did you hear that?  No, not that!  Did you hear it about 1:20pm this afternoon?  Yep, it was me.  I am not a big shopper, in fact, I will just admit it.  I do not really like shopping.  Think of it…here we have to buy for nearly 100 people.  That is a lot.  In the states, I did most of my Christmas shopping by clicking on the “purchase now” link and having whatever sent to the house.  No crowds, no traffic and no walking aimlessly through a store trying to find what I wanted, but I cannot do all my shopping online here because there is no door side delivery.  However, we did buy presents for over 40 of the children while we were in the States in November, but that still left a lot of presents to buy.  Well, today we are finished!  Today, I went to a local bicycle shop and bought 14 bikes.  We are done.  Oh, we still have plenty of things to get done before Christmas (cleaning and decorating the team house, finishing the baking of goodies for each house, decorating the chapel for the Christmas eve service, wrapping the remaining presents), but we can marking shopping off that list.  Okay, before you say it.  Yes, it is Teresa and Amy doing the baking and wrapping and now that I think of it the cleaning and decorating of the team house.  They still have plenty of things to get done!  Oh, yeah, what you heard about 1:30pm this afternoon while driving back to FH was me shouting, “Hallelujah, no more shopping for this year!  Gracias a Dios!”  Merry Christmas all! Rodney  


Just one more thing, it was sunny and in the low 80’s today.  I am not sure how that compares to where you are from?


Unloading the bicycles.

Pomp & Circumstance

December 11, 2010 (day 927) 4:04pm
Last week, Jorge, this week it was Brayan.  Brayan is the first from FH to graduate from traditional Colegio.  He has worked tremendously hard to get here.  All week long he was back and forth to school getting everything done.  Today finally arrived and he was out the gate early.  He left about 6:30am because graduation was scheduled to begin at 8:30am.  Did you notice that I said it was scheduled to begin at 8:30am?  It of course did not start at 8:30am.  It was just a little before 9:30.  Two and half hours later, Brayan was a colegio graduate!  He was mostly all smiles, except at one point, he told me that he was a little sad.  I am a long time removed from my high school years (stop that…stop agreeing with me so quickly.  I have feelings), but I do remember the mixture of emotions and thoughts that graduation brings.  After graduation, we headed to … go ahead guess…right…Pizza Hut.  Brayan, Mina, Wilfredo, Andy, Amy, Teresa and I had a great time with a lot of laughter.
Brayan will of course be alright.  He is a sensitive young man; he works hard; he cares and he has a bright future.  Pray for him.  He graduated today, and he moves outside the fence next Friday into the house with Joel and Jose Ricardo.  Pray that he will follow God’s plan for his life!  Rodney