Whiling away our vacation

HAPPY EASTER!!!

Good morning everyone. We hope that you were all good boys and girls this year and the Easter Bunny came and visited you last night :)

Things are going pretty good here. We have been enjoying our two weeks off from school. Well, Tim has had a bit more time off from school. It looks like he is most likely is done for the rest of the school year too. He is on the fence about liking the free time and not having anything to break up his day. I can understand that completely. These past 5 days have gone by so slowly. I have been rather lazy though. I have been trying to grade my last test over break, but its not easy to motivate yourself when you know that you don’t have school again until April 6. Thus it has taken almost 3 weeks to grade tests that normally take me only two or three days to grade.

One of our greatest accomplishments this break has been giving Surreal Pig. This is her new favoritest toy ever. She is rarely seen without him. She carries him around most of the day, it is pretty cute, but then again we are a little bias. She even tries to take him outside when we are not looking. We installed a doggie door for her in our screen door. To do this we cut a hole in the screen and sewed pagne on each side of the hole to keep bugs out. Surreal wasn’t to sure about it when we fist introduced her to it. We had to bribe her with treats on each side until she got used to going in and out of the doggie door. Now she loves that door. She likes being able to come in during the night and try and me to play with her. She is too cute ;)

Well on different note, March passed with no rain in the East. Now the Burkinabe are worried that this means drought year. We are not really sure what that means for the people here in Boulsa. Everybody farms and there is no irrigation system. We aren’t sure how many people rely solely on farming. Everybody here just hopes to get a little bit of rain soon.

Well that’s all we have for right now. Hopefully the next blog will have some interesting school stories. Have a Happy Easter!