Off to Camp!

Although it's not as exciting as the presidential election, here is a little update about my life!

Early this week my roommate got out of the hospital and she has been resting a lot. She is getting her strength back and tomorrow hopefully will be her first full day back at school. Parasites can really wipe you out!

While I'm on the topic of health, please pray for the health of many here. Four of my students are out sick and two are in the hospital. One of my students has Dengue (a virus that is transmitted by infected mosquitoes) so pray that he can make a full recovery.

In addition, this week, our School Director who has also been sick with a parasite was sent to the states after some test results came back alarming. He is going to get some more testing in the states; they are concerned he may have cancer.

We had a really hot week this week, the temperatures gone way up. It's made it difficult to sleep at night. I spent Sunday at the waterfalls trying to cool off for a few hours and it was a nice excuse to get away! Hopefully we can get some cooler temperatures again.
Wednesday night Young Life was a “Bigger and Better” Club. Each team started with a Peso (penny) and had to walk around to houses or people and find someone who would trade it for something bigger or better. What a night. I’ve played this with Youth for Christ in the states since I was in 6th grade and it’s much different playing it here! First, safety becomes a huge issue. Second, the language barrier is difficult because I don’t know the language well enough to explain this to anyone in detail, so I have to trust the students are doing a good job. Finally, NOTHING is “junk” to anyone here – it is all their most prized possession regardless if it is broken or not. You know it’s going to be a comical night when the first thing someone offers you is an empty beer bottle for a peso!




School is going well, my students still continue to be rascal's some days, but I love each and every one of them.

Tomorrow right after school I leave to go to the mountains to be a counselor at Young Life camp for the weekend. We have 65 high school students going. I'm excited, it's going to be a fun, messy, and amazing weekend. It will be a great opportunity for some of these kids to hear the gospel for the first time. Pray for the students that they come with open hearts and pray for me that I come with as a bundle of energy not dragged down from a week of teaching. We get back Sunday afternoon and luckily I have Monday off because it's a Dominican holiday.

Hope everyone is doing well and enjoying basketball season in Indiana (those of you that live there of course) – it sure isn’t the same here – it’s PATHETIC!
Much love!!!

P.S. I have now discovered what they do with all the leftover American Halloween candy…they ship it to the DR! Ha- we didn’t see a single piece of Halloween until about three or four days after Halloween, now the shelves are loaded with candy corn! Ha – and it’s not even celebrated here!