if two's company...?

Howdy Y'all!!

 

If two is company and three is a crowd, what do you call ten?  Yup.. ten...  What in the world am I talking about you ask?  The number of people living in my house!!  Ok, right now the number is down to eight, but before I went to Windhoek we were ten people living here!  Where did I get all of them from you ask?  The Johnson's have finally arrived!  :-)  So before I went to Windhoek, it was Jimmie, Gloria and their 4 kids, then the four of us ladies all living here.  It has been a little stressful at times trying to coordinate the comings and goings of so many people with limited keys, but it has been wonderful to have the family here to fellowship with!  since they lived here for three years it has been nice to sit and chat about how they have handled certain situations and get some guidance/encouragement about living in a foreign culture.  Now that Amy and Sally are gone (yes I got to see them before they left and yes I cried) it is just the Johnson's and me and Sarah (Sarah and me?  Sarah and I? any English teachers struggling through my emails full of Namblish?  I feel it is getting worse the longer I am here!!). 

 

The sad news is that Sarah is also leaving me.  :-(  Sarah has been here for six months and will be going back to Minnesota on the 7th but will go to Windhoek on the Sunday night bus.  It has been wonderful to have someone here to share my frustrations and joys with, and it will be hard to say goodbye!  She doesn't know it yet, but the nurse's have joined together to have a little gathering and present her with a gift tomorrow.  It is up to me to trick her into going in to the hospital with me so hopefully I can do that without raising her suspicions!  :-)

 

So now that the Johnson's are here, so is the wonderful package that my family sent with them!  They were supposed to come in February, so I have some Valentine's cards as well as some absolutely delicious M&M's!!!!  (I had one package for breakfast the next morning!!!)  Thanks to my sister Val for coordinating getting everything together and getting it to the Johnson's and to Dad and the rest of the family who contributed!

 

This isn't going to be one of my novels, I mainly just wanted to let you all know that I made it back to Rundu safely yesterday.  Thank you for your prayers for safety in traveling!

 

much love!

k

 

p.s. Many of you have sent me emails in the last few days..  I will respond to them, I just need a few days to get settled after being gone... 

 

p.p.s  I don't know if it worked or not, but while I had high speed internet in Windhoek I uploaded a video of traditional dancing at the wedding that I went to last year..  It is on the Photobucket site... but I'm sorry I haven't figured out the link that you would need to look at it... maybe you can go back to the mudding pictures and poke around from there?  If anyone is successful let me know!  Thanks!!

 

 

Kimmie Tibbetts
Serving the people of Namibia at the Rundu State Hospital
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