La Sonya

Ahh, the house is quite once again. These last week and a half has been full of visiting, eating, sharing stories, cultural learning, laughter, sharing of everything and pre Christmas joy. On December 1, our household grew to 6. Mary’s two children (Waren 3, Caren 5), her sister (Beatrice 19) and her cousin (Penda 20) came for a visit. It changed the dynamics of everything! Having two little kids around the house was a gentle foreshadowing of what is to come. Having the two other girls was a lot of fun for me to work on my cooking skills (they are good teachers) and language skills, not to mention just trying to talk to or work with the two little ones. It was a good visit in that it helped me realize all that I need to be working on for when our children come home next year. For example what kind of house rules need to be set up, when bed time is, what to eat to be healthy, how to keep the culture yet maintain health and proper discipline. Like I said, it was good f...

Velkommen Ben to Skotselv! My friend from university has come to EBS to volunteer for a few months. Boy am I excited! I met Ben at Southern when we were both in Destiny Drama Company. As we both realized yesterday, that was a long time ago. He's here to help with the PR things, he's quite productive as he's already edited a brochure, made me business cards, updated the webpage and is almost finished with the news letter. But really I'm glad he's here because he brought me a few of my scarves and he is company to have in the office during the day. Now when I get the 11:30 munchies I can at least have someone to sympathize with :) All through college we had crazy adventure with Destiny, the photo lab, and listening to music class, now it will be exciting to see what crazy things happen now! And we get to listen to Fiddler on the Roof soundtrack, re-live Destiny intro music, talk loud, kill flies, and eat vegan food! If you know Ben give him a shout out if you know me,...