who's who of Tchad.

Our internet isn't working lately, so it's not very much fun to write, but otherwise I won't remember what to tell you and I'll be in trouble from all sides! :-)

Let's start with all the nasaras (white people) here. There are five SMs that will be here the entire year. There are two others that are leaving after this week, and then of course James and Sarah (the Dr and his wife). Right before we left here for the US back in June a kid from a church near G&G Parker came for 6 months. Since we were leaving we had him come to Cameroon and he stayed there and worked with Charles, our guy there. But he really wanted to fly with Gary to see if he would like to become a pilot. So, we brought him back from Cameroon with us and he was only here a few days when he got very sick with malaria. (It was actually from Cameroon.) So, he was in the hospital on IV quinine for a day and then spent several days recovering here. Then Gary took him back and picked up a bunch of our stuff. Then we have a man named Steve Rose (he came to meet us when we were at Aunt Rita's and Uncle Ralph's place). He is here for 3 months and is a pilot and physical therapist. I guess he is trying to decide if this is something he wants to do full time. He is staying here in a little hut (but very nice) that we are renting for him and eating meals with us. We also have a couple Jeremy and Annie Smith - he is Canadian, she is Filipino, but grew up in Ivory Coast and Congo, so she speaks French. They will be here for a year and so they are building the first building on our new property. It's a small hut to start out with and they may add more later. We also have a well being hand dug out there too, so we are staying busy with that. Jeremy also has an agriculture degree and so he has our garden up and running again and is anxious go get started at the new property as well, but we have to wait for water and a way to keep the goats/pigs/etc out. So, we have a lot of pale faces here right now, and we have been enjoying that.