The Copeland Ramblings/

Learning Culture and Making Friends

While it may seem like we’ve been in Guinea for ages, we are only now reaching the end of our second week of classes. We were originally supposed to start two weeks before we did, but life (sickness) got in the way. In the midst of dealing with malaria, starting classes was NOT very appealing. [...]

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Utilities

I hope our posts over the last few days haven’t been too depressing! We are very thankful that we have the ability to get the word out when we are struggling with health or anything else. Thank you SO much for all of your prayers! We have been completely overwhelmed by the messages and comments. [...]

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A Bright Spot on a Tough Day

On Thursday I headed back to the clinic to get some test results from the doctor. They were just looking to see exactly what parasites we have in our systems. I never did get the name of those parasites, but he did prescribe yet another medication for everyone to take.  Emmaus had a hard time [...]

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Malaria

As many of you likely know from facebook, it’s been confrimed via blood tests that Deb, Canaan and Emmaus have malaria along with a host of other parasites yet to be named. We will be going back in to the clinic tomorrow to try and figure out what other parasites are present. Debra and Emmaus [...]

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Sickness

While I’ve been able to keep facebook and twitter up to date via my cell phone, it’s been a little more tricky getting online to update our blog. We’ve got some new hardware coming on the next shipment that will hopefully help with our internet signal. Over the last few weeks we’ve suffered from the [...]

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