David And Michelle

We have had quite a little bout with lice here at Dakar Academy over the past few weeks. Of course it started with just a few kids but eventually it spread throughout the school. After the lice checks about 70 kids were sent home because they had nits. The school did not do annual lice checks at the beginning of the school year prior to this but I can assure you that they will from now on. The ironic thing is that it is quite possible that the lice was actually brought from the U.S. since one of the kids who first was known to have it just came from their. Although since we have not been checking every year it is possible that this has been a problem that has been going on since last year. Anyways, just talking about it makes my head itch. I think it is time for another haircut.

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There has been a virus or possibly two running lose around the school. Almost inevitably both us came down with it this past week. It was not a real fun time since it mostly involved either lying down on your bed or making your way elsewhere to be sick. It seems that it is just about past now so we are both in better shape and hopefully by church tomorrow we will be feeling much better.

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Ok, once again I am really sorry about the long stretch between the last post and this one. Since I am scrambling for something quick to post I will tell you about our new bed. The school recently got a container in from the States and on it were several new mattresses. Somehow we were chosen to get a new mattress and box spring. Now this might sound like a fairly strange thing to be excited about but let me explain. Mattresses in Senegal are are quite a bit different than in the States. Our first mattress here was so hard that it was nearly impossible to sleep on at first but we eventually got sort of used to it. Now that we are in a different apartment we have had a better bed but still the firmness and general comfort of the bed leave something to be desired. So when we found out we were getting a new bed we were quite excited. Tonight will be the first night sleeping on the new bed so I will try to post a follow-up to let you know what we thought.

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As I posted earlier there has been some serious flooding here which has especially affected some of our Dakar Academy staff and the Korean dorm which houses Korean elementary school kids. In some cases these people have lost everything. Those who were lucky lost only about half of their belongings and some were able to come out of it with no damage to their belongings but the first floor of their homes are flooded nonetheless. United World Mission has set up a tax-deductible relief fund where contributions can made and they will make sure that those funds are distributed to those who are in need. Below is a link to the UWM Flood Relief Website where contributions can be made either by mail or directly through the UWM website. Please keep all of those affected by this flooding in your prayers.

UWM Flood Relief Website

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