Friday the 24th

Friday 24th uneditted and half asleep

I awoke around 4:30 AM and noticed my phone was on low battery alert. I got up and plugged it in but by AM it was dead. After checking everything I could I decided that maybe in the night I had not plugged it in right. When I plugged it in and saw the charge light start to flash I was as happy as the lady in the Bible with the lost coin.
Today was the last day of “work”. It started with the devotions with the teachers. I then rushed up to get an object lesson ready for the k-2 kids. While I was there the teacher Beth came for me. They wanted me down at the line up. I told her to tell them I was on my way. As I walked down the stairs I heard all the kids sing out, “Mr. Turner, where are you?” probably led by Christy. I sang back as I rounded the corner, “I am coming” and I heard someone inside the building laugh. Mary the principal wanted to thank me for my effort on behalf of the FES and then she asked some of the kids to pray for me which several did. Quite a difference from the start of public schools as I remember! Then Mary prayed a prayer of thanksgiving and asked God for a safe journey for the team as we travel home Sunday.
I gave the IOWA math test to two first graders and graded them had recess duty and had a nice talk with a South Korean woman whose husband is a Wycliffe missionary. She works in the library and had recess duty today also. Nest was the finish of the Beatitudes with the 5-6 graders and then helping with the scoring and recording of the rest of the IOWA’s. Somewhere along the line today I woke up to the fact that I did not have to make any plans for tomorrow.
After lunch only a few kids showed up and the power was off so I offered to show a DVD on my computer. We were without power so I took the kids to the boukarou and got it started. Soon we had 7 then 9 then 10 and by then we had to reseat everyone and ended with 11. After the first story was finished I asked if anyone wanted to watch another. Some did the rest I took out side and began what Glenda calls my “lesson plan stroll”. That’s where I have no idea what game we are playing as I walk on the field and tell everyone to line up by height in a really straight line. We played an exciting Duck, Duck Goose at the suggestion of one of the kids and then some other games I half made up or change to fit the age of the kids. By the time the kids were picked up we were exhausted. We all went into the Commons to wait for dinner and I think we all fell asleep in the comfortable wicker chairs before dinner was served.
Just before we ate Gretchen Harro showed up. She is flying to England for a conference before heading for the states. Since the power was out and it was getting kinda dark we took our supper plates up to the boukarou and ate in the fading light. Bob and Elaine were too tired to go buy Carolyn and I walked over to the Center to participate in the final celebration of the day for the forty years that SIL has been in this country. We saw many of the people we knew and enjoyed the service of stories and bible readings in various languages. The service was supposed to be on the basketball but the threat of rain pushed it inside.
We are down to one computer in the Commons, mine, so when we got back I let Carolyn get started while I changed into shorts. By the time it was my turn a terrible storm had begun. I unplugged the computer from the electricity and the web so as not to lose it. The storm was as intense as any we have had yet and lasted a lot longer. The strong winds cooled the place down but for several minutes you could hardly hear anything, Well the storm has passed but the lights are still blinking off and on so I better post this and get to bed