Camp!

We spent this past week at camp! It was quite an experience. Just to give you a little idea about the kinds of obstacles that have become the norm for us: We left last Sunday at 8:00 in the morning, which really means 11:30. We drove into Freetown and picked up food supplies for the first day of camp, which took about 1 1/2hours. We finally got to the camp at about 2:30, and waited for the kids to arrive! And waited and waited. Because it is not common for families to have cars, the COTN bus(which is an actually school bus from the States), picked up the kids and brought them. I have never seen so many children packed into a bus, it was amazing. And they had to make a couple trips to get all the children there. Once they were there is was great seeing their excitment! I was in charge of showing the kids to their cabins, and it was great to see looks on their faces when they saw who was in their cabin. We are learning that some things are universal, such as the way excitment is shown on the face of children everywhere
The place that we stayed was actually a university. This university just happened be near the place that a lot of the fighting happened during the war. So you could still the effects. By our standards, you would think that the place was abandoned, but that is not so. Things here happen very slowly, so a lot of 'clean-up' just hasn't been done.
The camp really went great. I kept trying to remember back to my camp days. It was great to see the children interacting with eachother and just being kids!
I'd love to write more, but my ride is getting a little anxious! So good-bye for now, thank you for all your prayers.