We're Back

Just wanted to write a quick note to let everyone know that we got back safe and sound yesterday afternoon. We will definitely be posting more in the days to come.

A 4 hour bus ride and three flights later... one flight to go

Now we are in the London airport, waiting for our last flight back. It has been a wonderful time. The last few days were really fun. Traveling home has been really tiring so we are ready to finally land at RDU. Our American Airlines flight should still be landing at 2:25pm Raleigh time. Mama, we can't wait to see you waiting for us. Thanks to everyone who has been praying for us, we have definitley felt your prayers through all that we have experienced. Please pray for us as we are about to fly across "the pond" as well as our adjustment to the time difference and staying awake when we would be sleeping in Zimbabwe. Thanks for the comments, they have been funny and encouraging.

Update

We miss everyone alot but we are having fun over here. Everything is going great. I love working with the kids. I am teaching 5th and 6th graders, they are so much fun and smart. They know the Bible studies we are teaching already. There are so many adorable and loving kids. I think I had 27ish in my class today. What fun they are. They sing many native songs that I honestly have no clue what they are singing but I love to get into it with them. Picture it! haha. I cant wait to show you pictures, its beautiful here. Other than the monkeys where we are staying we only have seen one other African animal, baboons or macques whichever one. There was a whole group of them just sitting by the road as we drove past. The electricity is actually off during the day and it may or may not come on at night. If it does come on while we are there at night, everyone gets so excited. We can blow out the candles and see more. Showers have been much warmer since the first but that is because we have electricity for some part of the day to warm it up. The food is a little different but not bad at all. The construction on Brandon's end is going pretty good. Today and yesterday were national Zimbabwe holidays so many people here could come and work with us because they were off from their work. "Stuff" isnt as it seems on US national media. The people here are happy despite the difficult circumstances. I am glad we get to see that firsthand with each person we meet. They are making it. We are having a blast down here, its an amazing opportunity that I dont even think we fully realize. Thanks for praying for us and for the updates on Lily. We love each of you. Maybe we will be able to get back to a computer and write again. Caitlin if you read this, Happy Birthday ol' geezer, sorry I missed your day. If any else from YM1 reads this tell her Happy Birthday!!

WE'RE HERE!!!

We made it here!!! Everything is wonderful and we are having a good time so far. We are 6 hours ahead of the time back home so it has been an adjustment getting used to the time. We were all really tired when we got to our rooms friday night around 8pm. Those were some tiring but fun filled days getting us here. London was amazing, we will probably just show pics when we get back. The power is not on as of now, except in the downtown area where we are now, so i dont know if we will get to post to the blog again but i wanted to let you all know we are here safely and everything looks fine, its beautiful over here. This morning we took freezing cold, and I mean freezing cold showers. But it was great because we hadn't showered since Wednesday before we left. I found out today that i will actually be teaching 5th graders instead of fourth, im really excited. no walls are up yet on the building brandon is helping to build so they will be building the walls (with cool blocks like legos the people make on site) and doing as much else as they can get to. the blocks fit into each other like legos so mortar is not needed, pretty cool huh? so he should be good and tired and sweaty when hes done everyday. wait, he is like that at home too!! i have also seen many adorable kids and i cant wait to actually get to interact with them. keep praying for us. we love you guys, see you before too long!! thanks for the comments, they made me laugh. Kiss all the dogs at work for me... by the way we saw litte monkeys running around outside of our inn this morning during breakfast, that was cool. We miss you all! Oh and in case we do get to check the blog/email again will someone let us know how Lily is doing. We miss her too! Thanks everyone!! Bye from Zimbabwe!!