June 2009

Eeeesh. This month is BUSY! My final exams  start on June 15 and go to the 19, and we have a dance that I’m helping coordinate for the 19. Finally, on June 29, we fly out to the U.S. I’m totally getting excited and I’m looking forward to seeing everybody.

I have to go start studying for my exams…  Seeya. :-)

May 2009

My Birthday was on May 26. My parents and I went out for lunch and I brought brownies to share around at school.

April 2009

My parents and I went up to a lodge in Eastern Uganda for a few days during Spring Break. It was great, we rested and just hung out. The place was really beautiful, right on the edge of a cliff overlooking the African plains right next to a waterfall. It was great.

March 2009

Um… not much happened!

February 2009

February was really awesome. I went to Egypt with some people in my school as part of an optional school trip. I babysat, sold brownies, and made necklaces in order to fundraise, and  a lot of people helped me out, so I was able to go!!!! It was so so so so so so incredible. TOTALLY the most amazing thing I have ever done. I wouldn’t have traded the experience for the world.

We flew to Egypt on Saturday night, got there on Sunday morning, and went straight to the pyramids and the sphinx. It was so totally cool. That night we got on a sleeper train and made our way down to Aswan, which has several things including the Aswan high dam, which sounds boring but was actually quite cool, and the tour guide showed us where the Sahara starts. We went to an ancient temple of the god Isis, which was so totally cool. There were soooooooo many hieroglyphics and carvings into the rocks and reliefs, it was amazing. We then went to a granite quarry where we got to see how the obelisks were carved and an obelisk still attached to the quarry that had broken during carving. We then boarded our five star luxury cruise, had lunch and spent the afternoon swimming and looking out over the Nile as the boat started to sail. The boat stopped and we took a fulufa (a small sail boat) around some islands and stuff. We went to bed that night still in Aswan, and woke up in Kom Ombo. In Kom Ombo we went to another temple, this time a combined one for Sobek the evil crocodile god and Horus, the falcon god of protection. At Kom Ombo the Egyptians used to make mummies out of crocodiles with special markings that they thought represented Sobek, so we got to see some of those as well. They were pretty gross. Again that afternoon we hung out on the boat, went swimming, and sailed down the nile to Edfu. In Edfu we went to yet another temple, this one for Horus. Edfu temple was awesome because it had piles and piles and piles of dark little tunnels, lit with little light bulbs, that I could go exploring in and try to find my way out of. Every room I went into was intricately carved; there wasn’t a square centimetre in any of the temples that wasn’t carved or part of a relief. It was awesome. From there we went down to Luxor (Thebes, including the valley of the Kings/ Queens).

The next day we went to the Valley of the Kings and went into several tombs, then went to Queen Hatshepsut’s temple. After that, we had yet another free afternoon, but since the boat was staying in Luxor, my teachers offered to take those of us who were interested to the “Luxor Mummification Museum”. Only 4 of the girls, including me of course, went with the teachers. As a reward for the four of us who were engaged enough in actually being in Egypt, the teachers took us for an extra trip to Mcdonalds (there’s a lot of Mcdonalds, Pizza Hut, and KFC all over Egypt). The others were able to go the next day, but we got an extra day. The six of us then went jewellery shopping for cool stuff (I bought a ring with my name in hieroglyphics) and we hung out for a while after our Mcflurries, went to the museum, then went back to Mcdonalds to buy some dinner. The next day we went to Karnak temple and Luxor temple, Karnak was actually my favourite. Karnak had these HUGE pillars and lots of carvings and stuff, still in colour. It was amazing. That afternoon we went shopping and then got on the sleeper train to go back to Cairo. The next morning in Cairo we got on a bus and went up to Alexandria, where we went into the Catacombs and hung out at the Mediterranean. We got to eat seafood like calamari there, which made my tastebuds very happy. We went back to Cairo, and the next day we went to a mosque made out of pure alabaster and then shopping again. That night we got back on the plane and came home.

January 2009

Not very much happened in January. The only big thing that happened was the Service Summit Africa.

The Service Summit Africa was a meeting of students from international schools from all over Africa to talk abou affecting change in Africa, community service, and other issues like global warming. The Summit took place here in Uganda at an international school, and I was selected along with five others to represent my school. It was really wonderful; I learned a lot and it was really cool to talk with so many people who were as motivated as I am to change the world. We talked about the different community service projects our respective schools have, and each school had to give a workshop. My school’s topic was Arts and Social Change, and I did a section on how music affects social change. The group from my school had a lot of fun… but maybe a little bit too much fun when my friend decided to draw a unibrow, beard, mustache, and sideburns on my face. THAT was embarrassing.

December 2008

We just moved to the new house a few days ago! It’s really cool. We have a lot more space, with an extra bedroom and an office. My room is really cool, it’s kind of choral with black denim curtains and a black denim chair. It looks really sweet. We all like the new house. It still needs some work, but it’s still cool.

A couple weeks ago, I had to do a guitar solo at school. It was so freaky performing. I totally freaked out, but it was actually fine. I’m definitely practicing a lot after that!

Finally got my Christmas break on the 12th!!!!! I have 3 weeks off, and intend to make the most of them. Before that, we did a bazaar at school. It was quite fun. The Student Council did a teacher sliming booth. That was awesome. We threw sponges full of slime on the teachers, and that was fun.

I’m really excited, because I have a chance to go to Egypt for a week in Feb. on a student travel plan. We’ll be going all over the country, and it will be awesome. I really can’t wait. We’re going down to the valley of the Kings and Queens, and all of the pyramids, and a lot more really cool stuff. I can go on a discount with some people from my school (it’s an optional school trip during our February break), and there are so many of us that it’s comparatively cheap. I’m so excited.

So, for Christmas, we’re going to western Uganda with some friends, which should be nice.

So, that’s all of my news, sorry that it took so long for me to update this.

October-November 2008

I got my ear cartilage pierced! I have a stud in right now, but when I can change it am going to get a cute hoop. It looks really cool, and yes, it hurt!!!!!!! October and November were pretty boring. Maggie Stewart came to visit, which was awesome. And other than that and my earring, nothing really happened.

August-September 2008

Well, we made a decision to stay here for another four years, until the end of high school. It’s pretty cool with me. We moved to a new house, which will make our stay here even nicer, so I’m happy to stay here for a long while.

I started back at school, and made a lot of new friends (school is always changing, people come and go). There were a lot of new people. We’re at a new campus now, which is really awesome. It’s not quite finished yet, but it’s pretty cool. We have 3 buildings, 2 of which are 2 stories and one is 3 stories. It’s pretty cool. I’m taking  science, extended math, English, French, history, geography, and music. It’s awesome. I really love music; we get one lesson a week just to play guitar, which is awesome.

I got elected to the Student Council again. I ran for president, but didn’t get elected. That’s fine, though. I’m pretty happy to not have all of the responsibility!!!!!! I have a lot less work now, which is good since school keeps getting harder, now that I’m in high school.

July 30, 2008

Hey everyone, I’m so so so sorry that it has taken me so long to get my webpage updated. I have been really busy, and on the weekends my brain has been so disengaged that on the multiple occasions I tried to update this it sounded so terrible I quickly deleted it.

I am now on my “summer” break, even though it is the coldest rainiest season here and it is only for six weeks, it still counts as summer break. I can’t quite figure that out, it should be something like “the way too short break”.

So, my first year back in school is over. I can’t really imagine having had a better transition back to school. I made so many friends and everyone liked me. The Student Council, as stressful as it was, was so much fun. I loved having that responsibility. And the year ended really well for me.

Hmmm… how can I begin with what I have been up to since March when I updated this last? Maybe I’ll just go month by month:

April: I had an awesome spring break, chose my subjects for next year. I have 8 subjects for 9th grade, I get to choose 3. There were three categories, and we chose one out of each. I chose Geography, Music, and History. I’m looking forward to those.

May: One of my goals since starting on the Student Council was to help the kids in my school “wake up” a bit to the fact they live in Uganda, and realize the poverty we are surrounded by. It seems like most of the kids in my school “don’t know they live in Uganda” (to quote my teacher) because of their high-walled protected houses. So, in May we started a community service type project, partnering with a local school, working on projects and sports days, etc. We are doing this through an NGO called Actogether which is a daughter project of Slum Dwellers International.

The school is set down right in the middle of one of the largest slums here, and is the only school for the thousands of people living there. What was really sad to me was crossing from Actogethers’ office to the slum. The office overlooked the slum and was fairly nice for a typical Ugandan office. The slum was separated from the office and the slightly more developed area of Kampala by a small gate. All you had to do was cross through the gate, yet it was sufficient to keep the reality of the slum out. Walking down through the slum and around it was shocking. It broke my heart. Kids were getting sick all over the place. There was so much pain in such a small area. The school was extremely poor, they had no electricity, no books, nothing. The classrooms were terribly cramped with about two kids per seat. It was such a depressing learning environment. The school has over 400 kids, and they charge fees based on what you can pay. The highest amount of money they ask for is 30,000 shillings per term (about $20), and other kids go for free. I hope that the Student Council member who I dragged into coming with me and my teacher at the last minute won’t mind me quoting her, her statement was “Oh my gosh, I had no idea people actually lived like this. Back home everything is so big and comfortable”. Since I have seen similar conditions in the past, it wasn’t so shocking to me. But it was interesting watching her change during our trip. She went from the typical “I don’t know about this… what am I doing here?” to the anger “What did these people do wrong?” And then I saw the recognition of what she was seeing settle into her face. She looked so overwhelmed. That is exactly why I wanted to do this project. That was a long day though. I left home at 6:45 in the morning and got back at 8:45 at night. Yaaaawwwn. So, I came back from that on Tuesday, and the next Monday the Student Council held an assembly with a slideshow and presentations about the school, and the slums. People seemed… well, some people seemed enthusiastic. MOST people weren’t sure what they thought.  =D

The Saturday in between that Tuesday and Monday I had an awesome birthday party. We went bowling and ate pizza, and it was so much fun….

June: June was ridiculously busy for me. I ended up coordinating a dance that took place on the 20th, my final exams took place started the 16th and ended the 20th, and that week I had an extremely bad cold. I’m still recovering from that week… =D But the dance went well (my one teacher yelled at me that I HAD to have at least SOME fun, which I did) and I did great on my exams. I thank God for that.

July: School ended on the 9th, and I have been enjoying my break. The first day of my summer vacation I met a really awesome 14 year old girl from Maryland. Kathryn and I spent 2 days hanging out together. Then the Klenks came, and have just left. So, that’s pretty much it so far. We will be on vacation from the 30th of July until the 16th of August. I am so looking forward to this, it will be the longest vacation (by far) that we have ever had. We will be staying at a lodge in Jinja called the Kingfisher from the 30th-8th. The lodge has great rooms, an awesome swimming pool, and good food. Then we will be going to two different resorts in Western Uganda, two places we have never been but will be really nice. Should be fun.

I really am sorry that it has been so long since I updated this. But I hope this has made up for it! Email me suggestions about what other projects my school can do with this school!

March 24, 2008

Hi everybody!

My parents and I got back a couple weeks ago from an awesome retreat, at a game park (see the pics), from March 2-6 . We had a great time, and got a lot of rest. The retreat was led by 5 people from the US (including my room mate), who brought Oreos, M’n’Ms, Crystal Light, Reses Peanut butter cups, and a bunch of other comfort foods. I shared a room with a really cool 17 year old girl who used to be an MK in Nepal. She and I got to compare missionary stories, talk about friends, and a hundred different things. One day we spent an hour and a half talking, and the next day 3 hours talking. It was wonderful. We all came back feeling refreshed.

Well, I had a VERY exhausting week. My spring break is from Good Friday through Tuesday, April 2nd. As the Student Council President, I got the job of coordinating the VERY FIRST dance for 8th-10th grade ever. THAT WAS A HEADACHE!!!!! Starting a couple weeks ago, I had a million things to do, including sprinting at top speed to get posters hung, holding at least one meeting, helping one girl order 9 pizzas, figure out decorations, set-up tables, and 500 other things I can’t even remember. I’ll just say that I spent almost every day over the last two weeks literally sprinting over my lunchtimes, and was often a fair bit late for class. *yawn* Needless to say, was incredibly exhausted.

Because I got Friday off, the dance was on Thursday, March 20th. On Thursday, a few things happened that made the day not so good. So, with that, and being stressed OUT about this dance, I was literally freaking out. Thankfully, I have really good friends who helped me get everything set up, and move tables and stuff like that. The dance started at 7:30. I was REALLY relieved to see that both the pizzas and the people showed up! My student council advisor, Ms. Kamure, made sure that I was able to just have fun and enjoy myself at the dance. I did.

About 30 people came, which was around 50% of the people who were invited. I was SO happy. The weirdest thing about this dance, however, was the dancing. There was a lot of dirty dancing, with people’s hands in places I didn’t know you could put them… It was incredibly surreal… Whether fortunately or unfortunately, I was not asked to dance by any guys (at least this way I didn’t have to worry about it☺.  My friends made sure that they danced with me, and I had a great time. I am VERY grateful to my parents especially for making punch and providing decorations for the dance.

A lot of people were happy with the dance. I got a lot of compliments and thanks for it. And now, I am looking for what comes next in my life! ☺

February 23, 2008

I am not normal. I do not have a normal life for a 13 year old, in the US or Uganda. And I do NOT read the normal books for a 13 year old.

I just finished reading “A Thousand Splendid Suns” by Khaled Hussieni. It is set in Afghanistan, from before the Soviet invasion, to the fall of the Taliban. The main characters are Laila and Mariam, who are both married to the same dude. I should mention that my friends like reading Mary Kate and Ashley books, and I’m reading this. My teachers commented on me reading this “Oh, that’s a good book. I just finished reading it”. My friends were like “Oh. Weird”.

So my school had a “character dress-up day” where we all dressed as book characters. My friends came in jeans and a t-shirt, and said something like “I’m Hermione”. I came in… a burqa (one of the full body covers). It was like a really long dress with really long sleeves, that my friend lent me. And my Muslim friend showed me how to wrap my head so that just my eyes were showing. Most of my friends told me that I should take it off part way through the day. But I wanted the experience of wearing it all day.

I could not believe how differently I was treated! The girls in my class treated me the same way. But the non- Muslim boys kept QUITE a distance from me. One of my favourite statements from one of the boys was “STOP LOOKING AT ME!!! You are freaking me out! I mean, all I can see is your little eyes sticking out from that black mess!” The 2 Muslim boys in my class, Mohammed Nazifi and Mohammed, were hilarious. In history I noticed that Nazifi was standing over the top of me, grinning. When I asked him why he was grinning at me he said “You look like a REAL Muslim woman!” He and the other Mohammed were whispering about me that entire class “She looks really good.” “I know! She looks really Muslim!”

I wondered how my dressing would go over, since I am ridiculously outspoken about my faith. (My friends learned after about two days at school that I was an extremely “loud mouth Christian-American”, to quote my Science teacher). But people really appreciated my respect for Islam. While I was wearing the burqa, the Muslim boys in my class were attached to me. Because we had art the last two periods that day, I had to take it off in order to sand and cut wood. When I took it off, the other boys in my class decided that I needed their “chivalry”. They kept coming up to me and saying “Alyssa, you must need help with those nails” or something like that. It was like I had just come to school that day, and they were so relieved to have me back that they needed to wait on me hand and foot. Truthfully, I didn’t mind it.

So, if I (or anyone else) needed confirmation that I am the absolute farthest thing from normal, check out the picture of me with a wrapped head…

January 20, 2008

I’m so sorry that I have once again taken so long without updating my page. Life has been insane, between a friend (Grace Gatera) staying with us for 2 weeks, and then Student Council, and homework, and and and.

My Christmas was awesome. My parents wanted to get up at 6 in order to cook for later in the day, so I got up at 5:30 and made them coffee and tea, and brought it to them in bed. Then I opened my presents. I got two seasons of Touched By An Angel, a necklace, a fountain pen, and an NIV Students Bible. Later we had a family over, and we ate A LOT!!! 

Then on the 27th, I went off to camp. It was actually held on UCU this time, but I still stayed in the dorms instead of at home. It was really strange being at home but not actually at home. Camp was AWESOME! I made many friends, had a few fights with my one roommate, and had many cold showers. We had sessions, kind of like sermons, from 8am to 1pm, and then had lunch, and then games and stuff. Then at night we had an other session between 8 and 11. On Saturday night, my two roommates who were my age, Sheba and Michelle, (there were only 4 of us in a room, much better than last year, when it was 12 per room) and I geared up and went to an overnight prayer meeting (it only lasted till one, but that was long enough for the teenagers!). We started at 11. By about midnight, my one friend and I were so tired, we started dozing off. I suddenly was thinking about flowers, and when I eventually woke up fully, it was kind of like “I’m supposed to be thinking about something… *yawn*… Oh yeah, I’m supposed to be praying… *yawn*… Why am I praying, and where the heck am I???” The three of us left at 1, but the meeting was still going. When we went back to the dorm, we were laughing and falling so much (because we were exhausted) that I swear we seemed drunk.

New Years was incredible! We went to a session until about 10:30, in which we wrote down things we didn’t want to carry with us into 2008. (Thank goodness no one read our lists). At 10:30 we went to a huge bonfire/ worship session. We sang a lot of songs, and then through our lists into the fire, just to watch them burn (hehehe, that was fun). Then we counted down the seconds until midnight, and at midnight we all screamed our lungs out, and cheered a lot (every one had a sore throat the next day). The worship team then played some more awesome music, and we danced and jumped and ran around like crazy monkeys until about 1:30, when we ate a HUGE pile of roasted meat!!! Oh that was good (given the fact that I am a carnivore). After eating we listened to different people do special presentations with songs or their own dances until 2, when my roommates and I left. After getting so hot, and all of the campfire smoke since we were dancing right next to it, we went and took another cold shower. I do not plan on repeating the experience of a cold shower at 2:15 in the morning ever again.

Over camp, I reconnected with my friend from last year, Fleria. She is 17, but shorter than me, and if you can believe this, more wild than I am! She became my really good friend, and we had a lot of good, long talks. I seriously miss her, but we are texting a lot now.

Yesterday I had a new experience, I went on a mutatu with my adopted big sister, Olivia. For those of you who have failed to come to east Africa, mutatus are big 14 passenger (though they often break the law and carry more than that) vans. That was a very, well, special experience. Olivia and I got lunch, and ate a ton, then walked around, got really hot, and then went and had ice-cream. That was a blast. We then got back on a mutatu to head home, but had to first stop on and get little pots to hold candles for an event that night. This meant getting off the mutatu, and then hoping another one would pull over and let us on. We didn’t realize that the pots were about a foot long, and six inches wide, and heavy, and that there were 12 pots crammed in 3 bags. And we didn’t realize that at 5 on a Saturday night, no mutatus were going to Mukono, with any room. Several wanted to cram us in, meaning there would be 17 people on a 14 people bus. We ended up taking a mutatu back towards Kampala, for a few minutes, in order to get a mutatu with some room in it to take us back to Mukono. We then ended up carrying the pots most of the campus, and then I finally got home, but Olivia had an event she had to do a lot of work for (she’s a guild minister of parliament, email me if you have no idea what I just said if you have no idea what a guild is).

So, I’ve had a few adventures. And the Student Council has finally set dates for the school dances!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! These will be the first dances KISU (Kampala International School Uganda, that’s my school) has ever had. We are having one on February 22nd for years 7 and 8 (6th and 7th grade) between 7 and 10 pm. Then for years 9, 10, and 11 (8th, 9th and 10th grades) our dance is March 20th, the last day of term 2, between 8 and midnight, the day our two week break starts. We have a pile of work to do. AAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!! And yes, to those of you who are concerned about dancing (some Christians in Uganda think that dancing is wrong) we will definitelyhave chaperones, even though I’m getting a bit of groaning from some people about having teachers at the dance…

Ways to pray for me: Pray the dances go well!!! And please pray for me, as I figure out things like one girl at school who is older than me, who was high on something the other day…. And please pray that I will keep getting top grades, and can do that without getting majorly stressed. The last thing is please pray for the Student Council, that we can do only the things that honor God, and people will see God in me.

December 20, 2007

Hey everybody! I am so so so sorry that it has been so long since I updated “Alyssa’s Space”. That is because of my Dad’s work, internet connection, and a whole pile of other stuff.

Well, most of you who are reading this should probably know what my news is through either me or my Mom. But incase you don’t…

On November 5th I was elected Student Council President!! Don’t ask me how this happened in my first year back at school in three years, but it is cool. We are attempting to schedule school dances, and a pile of other stuff. I am responsible for making agendas for our meetings and chairing them. I have only chaired one, but even though the advisors were ten minutes late, we actually got through our entire agenda in 15 minutes. I was shocked… My vice president… well, let’s just say that is a 9th grade boy, and he still has not spoken more than three words to me at a time. Great, I have a VP who won’t speak to me.

Between October 23rd and 26th I went on an outdoor education trip with my school. That was a BLAST! Except for the fact that we had a 6 hour bus trip to get there, and were stuck pretty much in the middle of nowhere, it was cool. I went with my class and the 9th graders. We stayed in Fort Portal, which is in the Rwenzori mountains (no snow where we were! I was so bummed!) which were absolutely beautiful. We went to one swamp, where my friend Natasha lost her shoe in 6 inch deep gloppy mud, fell over into a pile of gross water, and because she was so muddy she walked the whole hour barefoot. She was not having an awesome day.

The next day we went to a tea farm. Literally, I’m not kidding, where they grew piles and piles of tea leaves. Tea everywhere. It was ridiculous. Then we went to a tea factory. The whole fermentation and drying and withering processes were cool to see. By the time the fresh tea had dried and was in the process of being cut up, it smelled like such a cup of tea that it made us all crave tea!!

If you ever find yourself ordering a packed lunch from a resort like the one we stayed at, make sure you tell them absolutely NO peanut-butter tomato sandwiches. We ended up giving a few of them to the kids in the villages…

That afternoon we drove up into the Rwenzoris themselves. We went to a copper mine. That was so cool! Unfortunately, I have a big mouth. The safety officer wanted volunteers to dress up as a miner and lead everyone into the tunnel we went through. I don’t know why, but since I volunteer for everything, I volunteered. Later on I wished I had some kind of filter on my mouth, because I ended up dressed in coveralls with a 3 pound flash light battery on my back, and a hard-hat with a flash light on it. I looked like an idiot!!! That gave my friends a big laugh. The safety officer really liked me because I “wasn’t afraid”. Yeah right. My knees were shaking at the thought of going into somewhere that he warned us not to touch anything because of all of the contaminated water.

We went back to the resort, showered, ate, and practiced for the talent show the next night. I had fun just hanging out with my best friend, Kisanet.

The next day we went to the King of Tororo’s palace ( here we have “kings” of different regions, though they don’t have much power). Oh yeah, I should tell you this King (King Oyo) is in my school, in 10th grade. I’ve talked to him, and stolen a ball from his hand just playing games…. The palace would have been more interesting if King Oyo was there. Then we went and played a soccer match against one of the local high-schools. Some of their people were like HUGE, our tallest players came up to their shoulders. Everyone got to play, if only for 5 minutes. So, I got my share of mud in the mouth.

On this trip I kind of figured things out. The one clique I thought we had is actually really sweet, just sometimes caught up in trying to be cool. But, the “foursome” as we call them, were huge in getting me elected; none of my other friends helped me hang posters, but the foursome did. Now we are friends.

Well, I’m in drama club on Tuesdays, and we are putting on the HMS Pinafore!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’m a sailor.

I love my classes, I have awesome friends and even teachers (my PE teacher is a bit, odd, though) and I really love my school. However, I am VERY homesick right now, just wishing that I was either American or Ugandan, not a mix of each.

My youth group back home did an awesome thing. They sent me a package with a few cards and a bible magazine. Thanks guys. I really appreciated that.

My Dad says that he is committed to updating my page every two weeks, at least. Because of a mixture of things, I probably won’t update until around January 10. If you visit here and it is not updated before January 15, email my Dad, and yell at him at CLOAKING

Please email me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love hearing from you!!!

Sept 14, 2007

Hi everybody! I started school last Wednesday. I really like it at Kabira. The best thing by far is that I have made friends! Yeah! I have one friend who is half Belgian, half Rwandan; one friend who is a British Indian; and then my two really good friends are Tazneem who is Sudanese, and Kissanete who is from Eritrea.

One of the things that I wondered about and now have seen are cliques.  Yes, we even have them here! 

Today I got the experience for the first time in four years of getting to do homework with a friend. Kissanete and I sat and did a bunch of math and chatted, which was wonderful. What a blessing to have friends! I no longer take it for granted.

Well, if you want to email me, please do, and and please keep praying.

Sept 3, 2007

Yo! I'm going to be having this page so that you can see what is going on in my life. Every few days or so I'll update it.

I am really looking forward to the start of school on Wednesday. We will be leaving home at 6:30 -7:00 am and be getting back sometime after 4:00 in the afternoon. 

Today the Minns came to our University, so it was great to see them. Our friends who raised two missionary kids (and the mom was a missionary kid too) said that an MK's least favorite word is "Goodbye". It's true!

Come see my page again!