Final Good-byes

Today has been the bittersweet day we knew it would be. It has been full of goodbyes. It began raining at 5 AM and rained until about 3 PM. Nurse Rebecca’s daughter came to the guesthouse in the rain to give Barb a gift. This meant so much to us because to come in the rain for the Africans means running through it. Doesn’t sound that bad until you consider why the Africans don’t like the rain. When they get wet, they can’t go back to their homes and dry off or change clothes or warm up by the fire because they can’t make one inside. They are just wet and miserable. So for her to come to the guesthouse, we knew it was very important to Rebecca.

By 7:30 AM we were loaded up ready to go to Air France to drop off our luggage and get our boarding passes. Since it was still raining when we returned, we didn’t get to go back out to the school and finish the pictures for Project Hope and Charity. The rest of the day was really just hangin’ out, talking pictures and playing Dutch Blitz.

We did give out the rest of the gifts we out together for the ICDI staff. Farrel was very happy to receive his gift from Zac.

Since Maurice had pulled that joke on Barb about finding her a kid named Maurice that needed a sponsor, we made up a package like we had for the children, made up a sponsorship number, CR-000-0000, and told Maurice we found him a sponsor. He is such a humble, soft-spoken man and it was great to see him laugh so.

Well, next stop, Paris, the D.C. then Cleveland. If all goes well, we will be back in Cleveland around 6:16 PM on Friday night.

Duit Njonio,

Jeana