Around the "Farm"

I thought I'd take a minute and give you a peek into our world here at orientation. Things happen so fast that I haven't caught much of it with the camera, but here is a little glimpse.

This is what family movie night looks like. We don't have TVs or our own living room, so we watched our flick on the laptop and used the two twin beds that Ryan and I have pushed together as our couch. We even baked cookies using the roll dough, but then realized that our kitchenette wasn't equipped with a spatula to remove them from the stone. Don't worry, we figured out how to get them off, the no desert policy in the cafeteria will motivate you in that area!

One of our assignments for our part of the world is that everyone has to cook from scratch 2 times while we're here. I chose to fry chicken as our entree, but I had to borrow pans from several neighbors in order to have enough to share. Fortunately, my in-laws were traveling through and my mother-in-law arrived just in time to help me with it. It was yummy!

This is our "kitchen" table. We don't actually eat here very often, but it offers our only non-bed seating, so it gets lots of use.

This is a picture of the girl's dressers. These are photo worthy because it had been almost 6 months since some of them had had a dresser. They were excited to each have their own again.

These are the kids from our "church" playing around after we ended this week. Notice there are our children and the children of one other family. The kiddos aren't loving our "small group" worship format, but it's good preparation for the field. They do love the folks in our group, but they miss Sunday School and the worship team.

Here is Isaac sporting the Armor of God that he and Ryan made for one of his class assignments. It's amazing what a boy can do with a leftover box and a roll of duct tape!

Lizzy and Isaac are facing off, each with their own set of armor.

These are the other married gals from our Sub-Saharan group. We were at one of our supervisor's homes getting ready to eat a West African style meal, from a common dish. The required dress was a wrapper and a head wrap.