Hello wonderful friends,
Thing have been changing quickly here. Erica is home in the USA for medical reasons, we should know in 2-3 weeks what her treatment and recovery schedule are going to look like. I will let you know more of what I will be doing once I know more. I have been to the island where we will be building the guesthouse and orphanage and this next week we will be getting the licenses for building and will be breaking ground on the wall around the land that officially claims the land for the church in the next couple of weeks. The way land ownership works in Bissau is extremely confusing, Im still trying to wrap my head around it, but the important thing to take away is building will be starting soon!
My Kriol is coming along, but dont ask me to go to the market and buy sourkraut because I dont know the word for sourkraut yet...not to mention that is more of a German thing so there probably isnt a word for sourkraut.
I had the orphans at the childrens home tell me their life story and it was one of the most emotionally raw things I have ever done. Just thinking about it makes me want to cry again. It is unbelievable what many of the children that we are helping have been through.
One of the children, JC, was kiddnapped by a Senegalize man who said he was going to put him into school in Dakar. Instead he was forced to be a talibe, a street boy, and if he didnt return each day with a dollar and a kilo of rice or he would be severly beaten. They forced him to learn the Koran. He met a Guinean woman in the Market in Dakar who offered to pay for him to return to Bissau. His story didnt end there, but I get so teary eyed thinking of it that I will have to continue it later. I took videos of each of their life stories and I will let you know when I have them subtitled and uploaded onto YouTube.
Anyway it is getting late and I get to celebrate thanksgiving tomorrow so I should get some sleep, so I am going to sign off, I love you all,
Jason
