A brief overview of the week:Delay: Our sea shipment has been in the port for 3 weeks and was PROMISED to be here by today. Maybe we'll have it before I leave for Europe next week.
Delight: Jim leaves for Switzerland on Tuesday and I'll leave on Thursday. He has work in Geneva and then in Paris. He works; I plays!! :-)
Delay: I haven't been off of the camp all week due to sickness. Viruses spread pretty easily around here due to our close living conditions. The doctor at the clinic thought I had worked out too hard at the gym on Monday morning. Let's see --- a fever, chills, nausea --- from a good workout on a bike and a rowing machine??? Hmmm ... Not!
Delight: Getting to sit around all week, hearing stories from not only Prince, but also from Lucy and Moses. They want to prove that Prince is not the only one with story-telling prowess! These lives, I'm telling you ....
Delay: After my passport was in the Immigration office for 6 weeks, sitting in somebody's "in" basket, we discovered that my resident visa has still not been processed. So, I'm getting my passport back today so that I can travel next week. When we return, we'll try again -- for the third time!
Delight: Eating an Italian meal in the home of a woman from Venezuela and a man from Austria. The nine of us at the table spoke, as our first language: Spanish, Italian, a Nigerian dialect, German, and English! Amazing stuff, I'm telling you!
Delay: The remodel job we anticipated in our kitchen (and hoped would happen while we're traveling) won't be started until sometime after we return.
Delight: Jim and I will be spending 5 days on the French Riviera in Antibes (between Cannes and Nice) after his meetings in Paris. Can you say "ahhhhhhhhh!"?
And one final delight: At the Mango Tree Fellowship, today, a couple of people chose to become followers of Jesus!! Way cool!
Delights definitely win over all delays!!
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Malaria was ruled out. Our motto here is "think malaria first!" We're going off of the meds now, after 3 months of daily doses, because the long-term side effects are no good. We've been taking Malarone which has the least amount of side effects; some that are taken less often have some nasty immediate effects.
I haven't worked on Prince's book since Tuesday but I suspect we'll work on it a bit today.
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