This past Saturday Hugo and his right-hand man, national mechanic extraordinaire Evrin, hosted a bike repair clinic for the kids from the Papua Harapan School. There are 14 kids in the dormitory of the school and they come from a couple villages interior. They're a great group of kids who were very interested to learn how to maintain their bikes. It's a great skill to have!
Today our long anticipated crate arrived. It's just a small one (but still weighed 400 kg), but contained a few precious items. Hugo is, as I'm writing this, setting up our new barbeque. We sure missed having a bbq our first term and it will be so nice not to have to heat up my kitchen as often! As you can see by the photos, they have quite a professional team of crate delivery guys here who all where protective footwear... The neatly dressed guy is one of our great MAF guys. The power has been a bit sporatic as of late. We are sure thankful to have a decent generator.
The kids are all enjoying school. Except Marc who still hasn't started. His teacher has arrived and he will start on Monday, which means I will begin teaching PE on Monday... Mikah is on the Junior High Volleyball team and is enjoying that a lot.
We've had some intestinal ailments over here along with some weird skin issues... Pretty much the norm for tropical living... This morning Brynne woke up with swollen hands and a scratched open bite on her arm had become infected. Today we tried soaking the arm in warm salty water. If that doesn't help, we'll have to go the antibiotic route...
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