Praise God we work at a school in a country where we are allowed to openly celebrate the Resurrection. Since our term break started on Friday, HOPAC had their annual Easter service on Thursday. Singing, dancing–and this year–foot washing celebrated the Day.
“I sat so nicely during the program. Notice my new hair style! Mommy was pretty proud that she managed to get it done on my squirmy little head!”
Below are the girls I spend the most time with. They are such joy in my life! All are in 10th grade and all were my students in 5th and 6th grade. Gil wanted to pracitice with portraiture, and after taking 10,000 pictures of Grace, needed new subjects. My girls were happy to oblige!
Lotta is a Finnish MK. She is one of the best students in her class, and she makes us laugh with her wit and sarcasm.
Aishi is Tanzanian. She is usually fun and easy-going, but not when she is on the soccer pitch or the basketball court! She is probably the best female athelete at school.
Bernice is part Indian and part Malaysian. Her parents run a church in Dar es Salaam. She is the best soccer goalie in school, and is quite artistic as well.
Lea is a German MK. She is also one of the best students in her class, and is absolutely delightful as “Juliet” in the upcoming Shakespeare production.
Dorothy is Tanzanian and her Dad works at school. She is also a menance in any sports competition, but really a romantic at heart!
One of the things I love about living in Tanzania are the tailors. It’s difficult to find workable clothing here, but beautiful fabric is plentiful, and so are tailors. The tailor I’ve most recently been using has been way too flaky, so I’ve been looking for another one. I was thrilled to find a young woman last week that’s just a few minutes walk from our house. Her name is Beatrice, and her shop is made out of one half of one of those big shipping containers. She uses an old-fashioned foot-pedal sewing machine. I’ve already had her make me a dress, a skirt, and curtain ties for my kitchen curtains–all for the equivalent of about $12. Made to order; done the next day. Can’t beat that!
This week I got a taste of what my life will look like a few years from now! Christa (grade 7) and Victoria (grade 5) were staying with us while their parents were training new missionaries in another part of Tanzania. At the beginning of the week the car broke down. Which is usually not a big problem because there are lots of taxis here–but things are much trickier now with Grace and her car seat! Then Christa got sick, then Gil got sick. So that meant getting up in the middle of the night to take temperatures (we don’t treat fevers lightly here because of the threat of malaria), taking Christa to the doctor, keeping track of who took which medicine when, figuring out how to get Victoria to and from school without a car…whew! I’m respecting my own mom more and more!
Thankfully, after a couple days we were able to borrow a school car, and everyone recovered by the end of the week. Victoria even got her research report on jaguars done on Thursday night, by candlelight because the power was off! We do enjoy having extra kids around, though–and are already ready to start working on our second adoption! (though we have to wait until Grace’s is finalized).
In the midst of all of this, Grace started walking! She is certainly quite proud of herself.
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