Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Bonjour,

 

We are moving right along with our school pages.  We watched one math class on the DVD today because they are learning how to tell time.  I wanted Gilbert to see how his teacher was presenting it. 

 

Gilbert decided today that he didn't like writing pages.  Writing the cursive "k" threw him for a loop.

 

Danny's main concerns in school are break time and snack time.  "When is it going to be break time, Mom?"  "Can I have a snack yet?"  That boy is constantly eating something.

 

Bonnie wanted to build a tent tonight.  Danny was helping her.  Bonnie said, "We need a door so that we can have a doorbell, Danny." 

 

Things have remained quiet today.  Joe and Dan went to a chicken farm this morning to stock up on chickens in case we are stuck inside for a while longer.  Our guard went with them.  The chicken farmer showed them a snake skin of a snake that he had just killed.  The snake had been eating his chickens.  When he killed the snake which was about 12 feet long, it had six chickens inside of it.  Joe got ten chickens, and Dan got fifteen.  We should have plenty of chicken for a while.  The ladies in the village cleaned the chickens for 25 cents a chicken.  When Joe opened the cooler to put the chickens inside, the ladies saw the water bottles.  We had frozen them to help keep the chickens cold in salt water.  They never get water with ice in it!  They asked if they could please have a drink.  Joe said that they could.  The first bottle they drank from had got a little salt water in it.  They were not impressed with ice water; then, he realized what  happend. They were just thrilled with the second bottle – no salt water.

 

This afternoon, one of the men in the Bassam church went with Joe and Dan to show them where an insurance place was in Bassam.  The insurance on our vehicle had run out while we have been at home.  So, Joe got that renewed.

 

The receiving company e-mailed today asking Joe to come in tomorrow to get started on the paperwork for the shipment that should be arriving in the next few days.  (The arrival date changed since the port was closed.)  Joe talked to a missionary in the Abidjan area.  He said that everything seemed to be back to business as usual.  So, Joe and Dan may go to Abidjan in the morning if all seems quiet.

 

There isn't any new news right now about the situation in Ivory Coast.  Both presidents have set up their own government.  It is going to come to a head eventually.  We just don't know when.

 

A demain,

 

Joe, Laura, Gilbert, Danny, and Bonnie