We start this week’s update with a praise. We finally have a land line phone – something we’ve been trying to get for 6 months. This not only means that we can now do e-mail from home, but we can also check what’s going on in the world before we leave home in the morning – recommended by the American Embassy.
The next few days will find all of the boarding students and some of the staff from Dakar Academy ‘on the road’ again. Our spring break starts on Friday and lasts until April 21st. When we return, we will only have 6 weeks of school remaining – not much for all we want to accomplish here in the technology department.
We have been asked by our ICA director and EBM mission representative to return to ICA over this break and help with getting the campus ready for a year of hibernation. This will include packing up the EBM dorm as well as moving the rest of the electronic equipment and school textbooks into the library which can be environmentally maintained. Our group will include 6 adults and 3 staff teens who have a lot of work to do in the next 2 weeks. We will fly to Abidjan this Saturday and return on Apr. 18th; again we will have a French military escort through rebel-held territory. We ask you to pray for our safety as well as the safety of many others who will also be returning to countries that are torn by strife. For some students, this will be their only chance to say ‘good-bye’ to their homes – maybe for the last time – as they will be returning to the states for college, or their parents may be leaving that field, as soon as school is out.