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So...no internet at the house just yet but soon then this will be better...I just spent a solid five minutes trying to figure out how to update this thing...the house is sweet but you'll have to wait for pictures yet again...I hope people who aren't on face book have found this like Mt. Herman peoples and OVUMC peoples Wesley people so Mom or Dad and let's say Andy or Nelson can you forward that information on. Our partners in crime here, Pastor Zonga (o?) and Lazar are loads of fun...the church was great reminded me a lot of a Korean Service, lots of praying out loud...we had tons of dancing and drumming, it was a little over three hours of service....Zongo asked me on the way to church if I wanted to preach, I declined for a later date so he made me do the benediction anyway...rain storms are one of the coolest things here, it's like a tropical storm or hurricane in gestation so that's pretty sweet...they come up out of nowhere and they are freezing cold compared to our 30 degree Celsius days...still no bag so I’m still in the same clothes I’ve been in for nearly two weeks now...I did get to borrow my friends clothes to go to the 4th of July party at the US embassy...we made friends and even found a bowling ally...I met people from the peace corps, bowling green state university (don't really know way they were here), the CDC, and of course the state department...it was a good time but there were more flies there you can even imagine, seriously don't even bother trying you won't even be close...registration starts the 13th and there will be a mission team of about 11 here from Texas arriving on the same day...they will have one Doctor and Dentist with them for the little kids out at the primary school...the primary school is a three room building...we got to go for the last day of class and the day after the last day for basically a meet and greet with kids parents...the vice mayor of Ouga (waga) as well as the minister of education were both there...Zongo will not let us sit anywhere but up front, so we had to sit with the mayor, the king of the village, the minister of education and some other high rollers for the whole ordeal, there were kids plays and singing with traditional dancing, and we had lunch after...again pictures later...Zongo also made us sit up front for church, and by upfront I mean behind the pulpit (I’ll do a better blog on church later)...we have a translator, his name is sama, he works at the US embassy, he's very useful because most of the locals just speak moree with one another especially at church...that makes it very hard on me to work on my French because when people talk to one another they speak moree not French...but he business language is still French so I’m trying...I’m going to see if I can get in a French class at the embassy or something...already the people who own the little shops near the house are asking if I can come by and teach English to them because they're too old for our program (hopefully if I have time)...we have ladies to clean the house/school and two guards for the house/school, all form the church...I’m having to get used to having people cleaning up for me and opening doors...basically they won't let us do anything, I feel like a china doll or something it's starting to get at my nerves...I even had to have a small military style push-up contest with Lazar yesterday, I think they think I’m sweating because I get tired of lifting stuff, that is not the case it's just frick'n hot here...the royal treatment I hope will stop soon or I’ll be down stairs at 2am washing dishes in spite of the royal treatment...I had to make lazar let me go last through a door today...I made him by shoving him through when he tried to wave me through...no one will let you lift a finger here, lazar is about the size of a broom stick but if we were all trying to move the actual house in a team effort he'd probably tell us all to back off and then do it himself...we have a sweet restaurant/ stand where we get cooked food, the best part is the food but it barely tops the name "La Fiesta"...it has been over all good times so far I do want to send you pictures I know my words will not do this place justice...this site will not let me put up pictures really but I’ll do one post soon with nothing but pictures so that should make up for some things...Happy birthday James, I’m in Africa or I would have called... bodka wenehnam, that's thank God in moore but it is surly spelled incorrectly...peace