Hi everyone! I've been enjoying my time here in Costa Rica and learning a lot. Our lecture phase of the school I'm at just ended yesterday, and now we start the outreach phase. Our team of 10- 5 Costa Ricans and 5 Americans- will spend the next 2 months traveling to several different towns in Costa Rica (Talamanca, Jaco, and Tilleran) to do outreach. We'll be doing presentations in schools, performing dramas, sharing our testimonies in churches and as we meet people, working with youth in impoverished communities, and helping out the Red Cross.
Our whole team combined needs to raise $8,000. We're already halfway there. Would you consider helping us reach our goal? Posted to our sidebar is a chip-in widget. You can use it to make a donation through paypal. If everyone that each of the 10 of us knows gave even just $1, we'd probably meet our goal.
All of us (including staff) after a day of painting and hole digging
Our whole team plus staff the first week of school
See this crazy, wonderful, insanely awesome stair-step family of mine (minus Tim, Annie and myself)? I've been away from them for two weeks now. It's been amazing.
I don't at all mean this in a nasty way, but you grow older and you need to move on. Even if your family is still so new and wonderful and growing into more of a family each day, you still have to step out and head off on your own. But sitting here in my blessedly silent apartment, fresh baked bread on the window sill and a 'to-do' list rapidly dwindling, I find myself looking through pictures of the summer - and drat it, but I miss those crazy little kids. My roommate and apartment, my books and walks to the park, papers and interviews, they are all great. But their entertainment (and irritant) value compared to a bunch of siblings? Pretty much non-existent.
So here are some of the best pictures of my crazy siblings that I really love very greatly (especially from a few hours away).
After a much-longer-than expected adoption journey, we are finally a family of 9! Kai Wei (age 16) joined our family on Feb. 15, 2008. Sarah-Grace Ssu Ya (age 13) came home from Taiwan on May 23, 2009.
Daniel and Sarah-Grace
Our two twelve year olds
Kai
14 years old
Jonathan
16 years old
Tim
Rebecca
writer, playwright, and Heifer International Education Volunteer
