it's been awhile!

hey all,

so sorry i haven't blogged for awhile. im happy to report that my lack of writing has not been due to sickness or kidnapping. rather, i've just been really busy in the office. so to recap the past couple of weeks since Santo Domingo, here goes!

When i returned from Santo Domingo that week, i had a lot of work to do with the English Radio Department and the Spotlight Listener's Club that i blogged about in a previous post. From planning how resources would be accessed to the layout of the webpage, i was busy! we even made a trip to my house to visit my bro, a graphics designer, to create a logo for the Spotlight Listener's Club. as we wait for content and graphics, i anticipate this project to be completed before the end of October.

Wednesday was a busy day, and will continue to be a busy day until i leave! i left work at 3:45pm and met up with the students at the Alliance Academy...and we headed to the dump. except that day, it was raining...oh boy and did the dump stink and was it ever dirty! we were freeeezing cold, but still continued with the kid's club. when we returned to the school at 6pm, my group and i spent 15 minutes planning for this week's club (planning for rain as well!) and i booted it over to English Fellowship Church to get ready for the Listner's Club. cold, and wet, i quickly changed into my clothes, and before i knew it, we were playing the program, and chatting away... THEN right at 8pm when it ended, a couple of gals and i headed over to Teatro Nacional Sucre and met up with my two brothers and a friend of theirs to check out a jazz concert. it was awesome! there were 3 bands - Ecuador, Spain, and Cuba. Cuba rocked the house as they played for about an hour and 20 minutes. yeah...some good music... i was beat when i got home at 12am, and had to pack for Ibarra, another city we went to on Thursday.

so, Thursday morning, Janine and company, and i headed over to Ibarra to help out with the Listener's Club there. the club started when Efrain, the guy who began the club in Ibarra, came to the Quito club, got involved and told Janine "this is a great club, the people of Ibarra will love it." and so, after making a few connections, the first Listener's CLub in Ibarra started, with 27 people at their first meeting.

this week, i've been busy helping Sheila, my superhero, make a powerpoint for a trip to Malawi, Africa. being the director of healthcare, i believe she went there and Congo to see where HCJB can start clinics etc. today, we'll be having a "Hunger Lunch" where she will present her trip for a $5 donation that goes towards the orphanages she visited. i also have been working on a new software that we just bought that generates newsletters. as boring as it may sound, i had a lot of fun playing around with the software, creating templates, implementing it into our live site. the big heads in Colorado Springs will be testing it today. it was my first time doing something like this all by myself...James just told me what he wanted done, and i did it, with some of his help of course :)

so that's what i've been up to. gonna finish up MY newsletter for you guys cos i've been busy.

later,
dL