Oreos and Pomegranates

February 14 - Happy Valentine’s Day
Some recent BurundiHappenings: (or soon to be happenings)
We are getting some lovely visitors.
Feb 28 - March 6 - Dave and Edith from our church (Calvary Chapel) are coming to spend some time with us.
In April (dates pending) my (Rosel) brother John, together with his wife Carol and their daughter Becki are coming for a very short visit. They are going to Uganda to be present when the water gushes out of the well that will be drilled on the property that was donated to Ramona’s Reach for the orphanage that will be built on the 5 acres of land. Love it - Ramona lives on……..
Colton’s new year wish/prayer was that a cousin would come to visit us this year. There was positively nothing of the sort even on the radar as far as we knew. So you can imagine the rejoicing in this house when I read, out loud, the email from Carol announcing their plans to come for a visit.
We are very excited to welcome our guests.
Colton is now taller than me. He likes that.
There was a green, venomous snake found in one of the classrooms at Primary last week. And killed.
Two weekends ago I got bitten by our friend’s pet monkey - Pete - on the inside of my right hand wrist. Our friend released Pete last week. Sad - I liked Pete; apparently he liked me to - or not….
The weekend after that I got bitten by another friends’ dog on my right foot. She cut deep. It’s still painful when I apply pressure on the wound. I didn’t know I was venturing close to her pups….
This last weekend I didn’t get bitten by anything. Actually, come to think of it, the flu bug!
We have what we thought was a long dead tree branch that holds up one end of our clothes line. Colton was outside when he excitedly called Isaac and myself to come out and look at something. There, at the top of that used-to be-dead branch were lovely green clusters of leaves at the ends of young, tender new twigs. Reminds me a lot about God and mankind - He transforms the dry, dead parts into something that again is full of life and vitality. But sometimes that too takes a long time…
February 21
Well, I’ve tried posting this and every time I try it doesn’t work.
So….
My dog bite is healing nicely.
Only one week from today that our first visitors arrive… yippie!!
 Isaac often works long days; between both schools, Chrissie’s, CRIB, Pastor Ray’s new house (new for them), other teachers’ houses, etc, it’s often well past six when he finally comes home.
Recently he had to rescue Colton’s home room teacher from in the washroom; lucky for her, it was after school. Doorknobs are awful quality here, which in this case was the problem as well. She had to yell for a guards attention through the window, who then had to go to the teachers house to tell one of the teachers to call Isaac about the predicament. All in a days’ work… J
Debbie, the head teacher, has lovely parents that come to visit every 3 - 5 months from the UK.  John and Hazel, bless them, have brought us 2 small pkg. of Oreos twice when they come for a visit. You should see the ceremony we make out of the event when we consume these wonderful morsels of nostalgia inducing treats. Mmmm!
Colton took the plastic wrapper of one of the pkgs. and taped it to his bedroom wall….
Funny, the kinds of things that make a person miss another era in one’s life.
Will return - going for a walk with sweet Ali…
Colton and I just returned from a walk around the neighbourhood with Ali. I spotted a tree laden with pomegranates so we decided to knock on the gate to inquire if we could buy some. They were very surprised to see 3 mzungus at their gate, and yes, we could have a few fabulous fruits. As we were walking down the street, I verbalized the fact that I loved walking and eating a freshly picked tropical fruit - certainly not something we would be doing in Canada at this time of year. Just saying…