Looking for Land!

Yep, I am looking for a place to call my own.  I am looking at places in town, just outside of town and clear out of town!  A friend of mine, Frantz St Pierre recently got a job with a NGO working with drinking water in the countryside.  Through his work, he has become friends with the mayors and governing boards of many rural communities.  Yesterday I met with one of these mayors in a beautiful area of mountains, trees and streams.  This mayor and I discussed the problems that they have in the area that he represents.  All of the young people leave the area for bigger towns to go to a trade school or a university.  He stressed the need for a trade school and an English school in his area.  He told me that he would give me the land for my school.  That is pretty exciting.

Frantz wants me to meet with several more of the community leaders in the area that he works before I make any decisions about a school in any one area.  I agree, but I don't know if I will find a more beautiful place than where I was yesterday.  The only problem with these remote areas is that most of them don't have electricity...at all.  So my school would have to get a generator and solar system...but I will cross that bridge when I get to it.

I had a brief scare that I might have malaria, but it passed in a couple of days, so I think it was just the flu.  102 degree fever for a couple of days, sore muscles, bad headache and some other stuff.  I am glad that it is gone, maybe just a reminder to slow down a bit!

I have purchased lots of pavers for wherever my new school will be located.  They are tearing up the old streets in town and raising them and paving them over with asphalt.  All of the streets used to be made from concrete pavers.  They are being sold for quite a discount, so I am buying while I can, then my school will have some beautiful sidewalks and courtyards!

We were having some trouble with our power at the house.  At first I thought it might be something wrong at the transformer...but as you can see, everything is fine with it.  Apparently, we somehow lost our neutral.  The electrician I hired went ahead and tied our neutral to the neutral of another customer and that fixed everything.  I am a decent electrician when I am working with stuff that is done almost to code...but working with electricity here actually scares me.

Bongo - our unwanted, unloved but persistent guard dog had some puppies, three of them.  They have a strange resemblance to Grace's rottweiler, Tug.  Oops.  I will get some pictures of them when I can.  I think we are going to keep one of them here as our guard dog and give the other two away.

Thanks for following along with my adventure down here.  If there is anything specific you would like to know about, please feel free to email me at blueteamleader@gmail.com or message me on facebook.

Please pray with me to help me make the right decision on where my first school will be located.  It is a big step and a big decision.

Scott