Yes, it was a wonderful morning of sleeping in. Hurray for Monday holidays two weeks in a row! Since yesterday was May Day, today everyone has off. Random, but nice for us! I was a bum (by Zambian standards) of just laying in bed reading and showering and getting ready by 11. After that, T and I worked on some of our final paperwork and organization of things for the next group. We spent some time online trying to finalize Paris, but that didn’t quite happen yet. It needs to happen soon though for we’ll be there on Saturday!
We had lunch and continued working on tying up loose ends. Lots of ticks on the to do list. J When 13:30 rolled around, we headed out to pre-school for our last day (yes, on a holiday) and when we realized that wouldn’t work and we wouldn’t have many kids, we just pushed it off until tomorrow. So it was like a real holiday that way for us, too. Since several of our to do things couldn’t be done without the press being open (for all your printing and copying needs!) be decided to hand make our invites for Thursday’s awards ceremony. Then we had the fun task of going around to all the houses and talking to all our students. J I remember being nervous the first time we went to visit all the families at their homes, and today it was like visiting friends. J Everyone was excited to hear we were having a fun day before leaving. We invited all 10 families and the 3 national pastors that live on campus too. If everyone comes it’s going to be a big group!
My favorite part (and saddest part) of the day was all the people coming up to say goodbyes. It was sweet, and sad. M, one of the girls our age on campus, dropped by to say hello, and that she’d come back later in the week to say goodbye because she would miss us! Then, over lunch, the pastor from Good Shepherd, came over to thank us for all our work on campus and for all the help with the teachers of the community schools. Again, really sweet. Everyone here is so nice. J Finally, later on at night, two guys we know from choir were wondering where we were yesterday (no, I’m not going to practice when I can’t sing next week), and they said they’d miss us and they’d come by on Friday to say goodbye. I’m gonna miss them all….
We came back and planned Tuesday’s lessons: our final classes tomorrow. Then we continued tying up loose ends before dinner, which was delicious. We ate it all. We never do that. Spare ribs (ish), noodles, and potato salad. We headed over by D&D next to finish plans for the week, chillaxed at the guest house a bit, and guess what—watched a movie! Tonight’s feature was When Harry met Sally. Never seen it, but I feel like it’s one of those everyone has to see, so that worked out well. We decided to be really bold and watch another half of a movie, too. Pearl Harbor, since I only have half here. hahah
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