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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Almost a month
As we approach the end of our first month in Guinea it really is amazing how fast time has flown! A couple of days ago we took a five hour trip to our mission headquarters. It’s been a great time to rest and get to know some of our co-workers. Yesterday we took a trip [...]
End of the first week
We are starting our second week here in Conakry! It seems like we’ve been here forever. Some days have been insanely busy, some have been very relaxed. We spend most days just meeting our neighbourhood and chatting (all in French) as well as setting up our home. While that may not sound too busy, throwing [...]
Beginnings
It’s hard to know where to begin! In some ways it seems like we’ve been here forever yet it’s only been five days. Our flights went quite well, they were not fun, and seemed very long but overall the boys did really well. We were late arriving into Conakry but our host was waiting for [...]
Travel Updates
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Leaving in 6.5 hours
We leave in 6 and a half hours! We are still up and packing but hope to head to bed soon. It’s been a busy day but we’ve been with family and that is the most important thing. They’ve been an AMAZING help, we can’t thank them enough! We have the best support team that [...]
Join us for a live Q&A and say goodbye!
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3 days… Join us tomorrow!
If you have time tomorrow evening, join us on our blog for a live video goodbye and Q&A! It’s taking place here at 6pm PST / 9pm EST. There will be a chat window where you can ask your questions. We’re excited to talk to you all! Today revolved completely around packing. Boxes everywhere, all [...]
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