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| From may |
Both Les and I will have slightly different jobs next year at Logos. Les will be working in a part-time music and part-time library position. My position will be changed to principal of the elementary school.
Julia and Maya have still had some real stomach problems so your continual prayer is needed and cherished.
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| From may |
We just went to Marie Ens Orphanage this past week and we took a bunch of Logos staff and students out to help. It was great, all Marie's kids were off of school because of the King's birthday so we had alot of kids to work with. When we first arrived, Marie's kids all sang many Khmer songs for us with such energy and joy. Afterwards we hosted a number of activities. We ran a Canadian ball hockey session headed by principal Dan Hein, I ran a volleyball area with some help from some of the Logos kids, Les and the girls did some games with the little kids, and Anna Pedrosa ran a puppet show (translated in Khmer). Later a couple of us had a chance to pray for some of the elderly grannies who were ill. We all had lunch at Marie's place and it was just a great time to be out there. The girls all really like playing with Marie's dogs too. However, Maya is terrified if Marie's dogs come close to her.
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| From may |
Les and Steph are off to another orphanage this afternoon to play with some of the disabled orphan children and I will take care of Jubes and Maya.
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| From may |
Many of you know and wished Stephanie a Happy 13th Birthday earlier this week. Things are done differently out here and she had a hard time convincing some of her friends to come over to celebrate her birthday. (Actually her friends had a hard time convincing their parents to let them go celebrate Steph's birthday on a Saturday). The parents apparently just don't see the need, I guess. In the end, Steph was able to have a couple of friends over, although it meant Les and I driving them all over Phnom Penh to make it happen! Steph had fun and appreciated everything.
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| From may |
Les also celebrated her 1st Mother's Day away from Canada. Steph baked some cupcakes for Les. Steph did a great job. Aside: After much searching, I had found a box of Betty Crocker cake mix- even though it took me 3.5 hours and many stores later to get it. It sure did taste great! We had some American missionaries over to help celebrate Mother's day too.
Of course Les and I celebrate our 18th anniversary on the 18th of May. We decided to celebrate it on the night of the 13th since that worked in our schedule. It was also the first time together alone for a night since we have been in Cambodia. It was great, almost felt like a honeymoon! We had a couple of staff members agree to look after our little ladies. (Although one of the staff members left early due to feeling ill and having stomach problems)!
We had a chance to stay over at the girl's house (Asian Hope orphanage) last Saturday night and have some fun with them. Actually what was kind of funny was we thought we would go over and watch a movie for part of the time, since they have a TV and we do not. As the house parents were leaving for their much needed break and a relaxing time out for the evening, one of them said to the girls, "remember no TV tonight- you are grounded (from watching TV) based on yesterday's events." Just had to laugh- no TV - Oh Well! We had a good time playing relaxing and looking at some of the photo albums some of them had made over the past couple of years.
Random fun- I got my first Whopper in Cambodia! Actually Dan Hein was coming back from the Bangkok airport and purchased the Whopper just before his flight took off and brought it into Cambodia! Well 3.5 hours later I ate it along with Julia, Steph and Maya. Les was not interested as she thought it might make her sick since the burger was in the heat for 3+ hours? I figured it couldn't be any worse than things I have eaten here. By the way, it tasted sooo good. Real beef- awesome - and nobody got sick from it!
We are also looking at buying a car before we leave. There are many cars for sale right now as many expats are getting ready to leave. We are looking at an 80ish toyota camry (they are not sure what year- has been cannibalized many times over) - fully rusted, broken speedometer, unknown km, everything makes a noise but the horn kind of car. These cars go for around $3000 USD. I know, it doesn't make sense but these are the cheaper more reliable cars available that is in our affordability. We will need a car to deal with all the dust and rain when we travel to the new Logos school building next year.
We have had lots of Heat, over 40C most days (in the shade according to the school thermometer). This increase heat means that more people try to use the aircon and therefore we are losing power more often. We are losing power anywhere from 1 to 10 hours per day. Not having a fan during that time is even harder than not having aircon.
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| From may |
Blessings,
Dean
PS Happy Birthday to my brother Rod. Sorry I haven't said it to you directly yet. Our internet has not been working well here- I am sure it is power related and also the laptop microphone and speakers are starting to go, so it has been tough setting up regular communication.
PS Thanks to Greg Dyck, Darren Wall, and Dave Jennings for helping us get our vehicle figured out. Please pray that it works out so we can drive it when we get back in June to Winnipeg).
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