Ebenezer is growing! With 60 kids coming in each year at reception level (that is aged 3). They graduate at 7th grade and then go on to various high schools. Teachers can be hard to find and then to keep but they have some good ones! I filled in the 6th grade class teaching math - somewhat thrown into multiplying and adding fractions! It came back quickly but It has been some time since I had to do that. The English lesson was about adverb clauses but I ceded that part because while I can speak and write I don't know exactly what I'm doing any longer (though I remember diagramming many many sentences in school). *let me know if you are interested in sponsoring a child. The future is education. $30/month*
It was wonderful catching up with people. I stayed with Isabelle who is there working in the eye department. We lived together for 6 months during my first year in Nkhoma and have met up many times since then all around the world. Maralise is still there doing amazing things with the seminary students and the prison ministry. Elsabet and Hennie were packing up their house after 30 years in Nkhoma, ready for retirement beginning sometime in December. Beria is cooking for another family who came 2 years ago (I've met them but don't know them). Joanna is still the medial director's assistant so I know where to find her - we spent many hours putting patient files together. Had dinner with Chrissie who is principal of Ebenezer. Fun to see her after her visit to NC in the spring!
Isa and I climbed the mountain again. This time we slept in the mountain hut and made the summit for sunrise. It was a lovely night. Stars, quiet, if only the early wake up hadn't messed it up...but then it is always worth it from the top!
