I want a friend like that

Over the past two days, a lot has changed for the Education and Computing groups.  On Sunday, we attended church with the Watts', two SIM missionaries along with their daughters.  Not only was the service in french, translated into moore (more-ay), but it was also 2 and a half hours long.  For the first hour of the service, it was primarily singing (in french), along with an introduction of the visitors aka us.  Luckily, Malcolm Watts was there to introduce us in french.  After the pastor's sermon, we took communion then were asked to come up to the front of the congregation in order for the church to great us.  Everyone in the church was so welcoming to us we were grateful to be allowed to worship with them on Sunday.  They even asked us to prepare a song for next Sunday......I hope they like Jesus loves me!

The remainder of Sunday was definitely a day of much needed rest.  We cooked, cleaned, read, did laundry and laid around until our pick up game of ultimate Frisbee at four!   The group consisted of people staying at the SIM guesthouse, SIM missionaries, CMA missionaries, and some of the ISO students.  This game was a lot more intense than some of us had expected.....leaving a few a bit sore the next day.


This morning we had an early rise, with Computing heading out to the Peace Corps at 8, and the Education waking up to say goodbye....then go back to sleep. Around 8, Diana came for us (computing) to head over to the school she works and lives at.  Diana is a member of the Peace Corps placed at an IT teaching position 20 minutes outside of Ouaga at a school for middle school girls.  As a boarding school, the girls pay a tuition along with living inside the campus grounds.  Once we got there we begun to assess.....and delegate.  Many of the computers were stacked high in piles in order for us to test.  Already beating Diana's hopes of two, we currently have 4 of the computers running with new software on them, hoping to fix more so they can have better computers for their students to use. 

The Education group left for Yako this morning to teach many different subjects at a local orphanage.  With everyone gone from the SIM guest house except for the computing group, we hope everyone is having fun at their destinations and can't wait to see everyone on Saturday!

from Ouaga, over and out.