Chester and the countdown

Less than 2 weeks until it's time to say goodbye. Well....where do I begin with this week? I don't really have much to say, but I will do my best. We had our last class this week. It was kind of a bittersweet thing, but it was good. It was christian worldview, and I had many people asking me "How did you like it?" umm........I couldnt really answer that. I think that I would of liked it if I had understood it. I found it extremely hard. I kind of got the basics, but not really. So that kind of sucked. But the prof was really good, I think I would take another class in that field if I could understand it better. Umm...oh we had a wonderful infestation. Not a huge one, but we had a case of lice go around. Praise Jesus I did not get it. My hair is SO hard to pick out. It was also deb's birthday this week, her parents did a few small things for her and surprised her with cupcakes and flowers that they got someone to make nad pick up. Here is a pict of our room on her birthday, and the prank that she played on the morning of her birthday at like 2 AM. Other than having class, we didn't do much. But I do have a story for the week...

...I made a new friend during the week. He was average size, had dirty hair, ate a lot, came to visit every morning, and was a great tree-climber. He was a raccoon. He came to norm's little cottage every morning around 8 and waited till me, or stevie, or ken fed the cats. He would hide somewhere until we left and then come out, scare away ginger, and start eating her catfood. I managed to catch him doing it one morning and scared him away. The next day he did it again, so I ordered the trap to be set. That night norm put a couple marshmallows in the trap and set it outside, and the next morning the marshmallows were gone, the raccoon was sticking it's head out from underneath the house, and the cats were up somewhere high. He had not set the trap. He was a smart one. So I decided to name him. I named him chester. Finally after tieing up the food in the trap we caught him. I felt really sorry for him, but sat with him for a bit in the morning as he hissed and groweled enough to scare me and make me back off a bit, and tryed to tell him that it was his fault. Later in the day I fed him a couple sausages for he had given up on trying to get out. I had been talking about him for days so people were finally able to come over and see him as he looked at us scared and unable to really do anything. Finally norm got a truck and took him away to an open forest so he would not bug us anymore. It was sad to see him go, but it was a fun experience. Haha. Here's a couple pict's of chester.

This weekend we had Jr's retreat. I was in the kitchen and was completely dead by the end of the weekend. It had been a long week previous to that. I did not get much time with the kids, but I was able to meet one girl. she had a pretty bad case of lice and I was helping pick through her hair. other than that I found myself working and not being able to really hang out with the kids.

Umm, this week we have a surf trip comming up, a white water kayacking (cant spell) trip comming up, and a paper due. It's really sad that the time has come to begin packing up for the next step on my 16 month journey, and scary to think that I have been here once again for almost exactly a year, but it is time to move on. It is time for God to take us all away and lead us around the world to serve him. Please pray that he will continue to prepare our hearts for departure day comming up in 14 days. It will be really hard, and im not excited, but it is time to move on. Other than that, not much is new. Life's going. Hope you guys are enjoying your week and I will tty later. Oh and as for this blog, I think I am going to keep it going for the summer. That way you can know how my weeks with a different cabin is going if you feel like it. Signing off for now.