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16 April Saturday Khartoum Good News!

5/3/2011

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  16 April, Saturday, Khartoum

The heat breaks a little during the early morning hours. I do not feel much better and stay in the tent. A Dragoman overland group is also in the campsite and the guys hang out with different people during the day. They gather useful information for us about Ethiopia: sites to see, food to eat, prices to pay – since they just came from Ethiopia.

I start to feel better towards noon and Willie calls the friends, originally also from South Africa that we wanted to meet with. They come over to the campsite and we spend the afternoon in the shade, talking about their amazing experiences the last 11 years in Khartoum. They are also from South Africa and we have lots to share and talk about. They are founding members of an international school in Khartoum and we plan to visit them at their workplace the next day.

The heat has paralyzed us and we have very little desire to see Khartoum. We discover a weak internet signal, and try to take care of important administrative things. Willie receives a letter from Ruco in which he asks us to contact him which we do and he gives us such good news. Hugo was accepted at New College of Florida in Sarasota! He has heard from several of his applications and it was not good news: he was unsuccessful in a few and on a waiting list for another. New College was the very first school he really showed interest in because of their different education philosophy and approach. We call Hugo who was somewhere else and I think the photos tell the story better than I can ever do. We needed the positive booster after a difficult few weeks. Something else we did not have to worry about anymore! Tomorrow: here we come Ethiopia!

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Randy and MaryAnn
5/3/2011 01:56:27 am

Wonderful to hear from you and "walk" through your journey as we read. So glad your container was released in So.Africa. Also that you (and stinky dog) are reunited and well. We are excited also for Hugo to come to college in Sarasota in the fall. We will have to visit him there and bring him to our house for holidays if he wants to. Our love and prayers continue. Love, MA & R

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    "There is something about safari life that makes you forget all your sorrows and feel as if you had drunk half a bottle of champagne - bubbling over with heartfelt gratitude for being alive. One only feels really free when one can go in whatever direction one pleases over the plains, to get to the river at sundown and pitch one's camp, with the knowledge that one can fall asleep
    beneath other trees, with another view before one, the next night." -
     Karen Blixen - Out of Africa, Kenya
    'Of course as I am reading this, I know that you DO get your visas and the container DOES get released, but oh the internal struggle we face even though we should trust (as Hugo does) that God has His hands on all things and is constantly taking care of us.'


    From a Friend:
    :) Crazy to think that we are ALL made of blood, bone and water yet we speak in so many tongues that getting along together becomes a massive task within itself.

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