The Copeland Ramblings/

Some pics!

Boy style tea party!

This was our first American style meal here in Dakar. Our hosts are still cooking our meals for us. Which is good and bad all at the same time! haha! We miss familiar food. But the time together and the culture learning is so valuable. This is egg salad sandwiches on sub style bread we buy at a bakery down the road. The potatoes are actually white sweet potatoes that a lady downstairs fries up and sell each evening. They are so good. We ate those in Guinea, too! And note the best part… Chick-fil-a BBQ sauce!!!! =)

What a mess!!!

I was asked to teach these ladies how to bake a cake. So I agreed… even though I always bake cakes from a box! haha! I didn’t realize I was agreeing to a 4 hour long marathon of making at least 20 cakes! We cooked Senegalese style… which means on the floor! You wouldn’t believe what a mess it was at the end!!! It ended up being a great time of language learning and relationship building! It was exhausting but good! (This is what I did for Mother’s Day!) Notice Emmaus is testing the batter while we are all distracted taking a picture. What a mess he made! =)

Our work space. This was towards the beginning. The mess got much worse! And don’t forget the 4 cockroaches I smashed while we were doing this! =)  They were such good learners. Except I just simply could not get them to add the ingredients in the right order. The baking powder was always forgotten and added in last! haha!

The first cake that Banna ever made in her whole life! She did a pretty good job!

Canaan's fort!

Canaan showing me his fort!

Banna and Lellie!

The kids new bigger bath buckets! They like bath time! =)

I (Deb) was throwing up again last night… not fun! Instead of having a super busy day today… I had to lay around and do nothing. Kinda nice, kinda not! Haha! Hope you enjoyed the pics. I was so bored just laying here, so I thought I would try to get something done! =)

Don’t forget to check out the rest of the pics!

On this day..

• Happy Mother's Day! - 2008