Itsara

It’s been a while since we talked about life out here, hasn’t it? Well, here’s what’s going on now.

We are currently living in a guest house next door to Im Jai (actually renting two rooms out of the house of an old man who is a friend of Ladda’s). We’re at Im Jai most of our days. The kids leave around 7, which is usually before any of us can make ourselves get here. We do devotions with the staff and volunteers around 9, and we’re currently going through The Purpose-Driven Life (which is an awesome, Truth-filled book for those who haven’t read it). We go to school every weekday from 1-3.

Recently, Cindy and I have started picking up the kids from their school after ours (Sean has been doing this for longer). Then we try to get our homework done (no easy task). Evenings we spend with the kids, talking with them, playing with them, loving them, helping them with their homework, and whatever else we can manage with the skills that we have at the moment.

It looks as if we won’t be moving to the new site until March. God has graciously provided the funds Im Jai needed for a two-story, multi-purpose building (in which will be the kitchen, cafeteria, music room, computer room, and probably some other stuff), so now it has to be built. Slowly the picture of what life will be like is coming into focus (but very slowly), and Ladda said that next week she’ll tell us which kids will be in our house! We’re very excited about that.

That’s the quick-and-boring rundown of daily life here at the moment. If there’s something you’re interested in knowing, please don’t hesitate to ask questions. It’s one of the benefits of this blog that you can ask questions, we can answer them, and we don’t have to repeat the same answer in order to tell everybody else :-)