Hello Hello Hello.

Its been a while...lets see.

We've mostly just been staying in Sikalongo the past few weeks which has actually been pretty nice compared to the ton of traveling we were doing in the beginning of the summer. Its been nice to be around and teach and get to know the students more. They come by a lot in the late afternoon or evening and we sit around and talk, its been really nice to be around for that. The Bible Institute and Sikalongo (SBI) has also restarted. Originally we were going to be teaching there but it wasn't up and running when we got here due to a whole lot of different things. Its up and going now though and that has been a new activity I think we are going to get involved in during the weeks to come. Right now there are 5 pastors in their third and final year at SBI . We are going to be teaching English to the wives of these pastors starting next week which I'm sure will be another great experience! We had a big welcome dinner last week for all of the pastors and thier families last week (about 60 people) which turned out to be a really fun evening. There was, because this is Africa, a whole ton of singing and dancing. I'm going to miss that when I go home!

The exciting activity for last week was a student, Ashley, who came to visit us. She has been here for a year teaching with a mission organization and is just preparing to leave. We were all really glad to have her visit us. It was sooooo nice to have another person around our age! We even made pizza for dinner one night she was here, which turned out amazingly. We visited her village where she was staying at the end of last week. They had this huge assembly of all of the students and teachers and a bunch of peole from the community for us. It was cool to see where she had been staying and to see a some schools that are very different from where we are teaching. We were pretty sad to see her go. This week our exciting activity was joining one of the student choirs up at church! It has been a blast so far. Not only are we singing but its in a foreign language and we dance at the same time. Its pretty funny. The choir is so incredibly good though, its pretty fantastic just to be a part of something like that.

Deep thought for the week--get up early tomorrow and get your coffee and go watch the sunrise. its pretty fantastic and I rarely have time for it.

Until next time!