T plus 11 jours

we arrived home (orodara) from saraba later than expected, we actually finished the journey in the dark, loren and donna have always said that nothing is that important that you need to travel at night in burkina faso, you must surmise the rest

village life is very relaxed, it's kind of nice, naps every afternoon for an hour (or maybe two) plenty of time to read, and always someone coming around to give their greetings, stopping to talk before going to the field, etc.

currently in saraba, everyone is harvesting their crops after a very wet rainy season, loren and i walked out to the fields this morning to see friends and their crops, we walked around various fields and even saw a farmer that was working there for a year to earn some money to take back to his family in bobo, i also got some pictures of an enormous termite hill and a few scorpions we found in a tree

we keep getting rain, the big topic of discussion was how much it has rained, they've had a rain a week for the past 5 months, it was raining this morning when we went out to the fields and so on the trip home, loren got a good running start with the car and flew over the bridge and up the hill on the road going back to somogohiri just north of saraba

i was known in saraba as the nephew of the man that helped roof the kitchen/storage building in the entz courtyard (that would be russ toevs, my mother's older brother)

many people said that my work was important because it was best to have loren and donna present in that area, i was freeing them of the job of being in orodara doing the computer work so that they could live with the somogho people

God has patience to be with his children

God has time to wait

God has time to listen

why shouldn't i

T plus 8 jours

i think that this blog thing may end up being just me telling stories, after looking at yesterday's entry i realized that each paragraph was probably twice as long as any previously published

the second day of lunch with the dakuo's was noodles and fish, i am still being treated as a special guest there, slightly more simple than yesterday but more expensive, we also had china green tea afterwards today, it was very sweet and strong, good stuff though somewhat of an acquired taste, felix says that he cannot sleep after drinking it

felix also says that he likes his afternoon naps, he says he always takes one or else he feels tired the rest of the day, i told him i like naps as well

the internet is still being annoyingly slow on the entz's computer, they have 40 messages and they aren't cooperating in coming in, though tussaint's computer seems to be doing fine, that's the one i'll be using after he is done each day

we got the flemings' "vila" cleaned out today so that they can paint the living room, stored a few things and then did a bit of repair work as well

i got to go to the market this morning with donna and kay, they bought lots of things, mostly food, and i walked around with them carrying a few things and taking some pictures

i am getting better at catching more french but there's a lot to go, it seems as though everybody that knows english knows a lot more english than i know french, then again that may be because they aren't afraid to speak

it's the last day of the quarter, loren checks the exchange rate and i realize, hey, tomorrow is the first day of october

i'm an american

but i can change

because i have to

to burkinabe

with His help

i will change

with His power

i will abandon america

with His grace

i will become a missionary

in burkina faso, western africa