The trick with posting something daily is that you have to be really careful. On the one hand, we’re here in Africa, and I want to give a realistic view of what it’s like here. On the other hand, I don’t want to paint an overly bleak picture of the place and miss out on the bright points.

It’s true we’re living in a near desert and I’m not teaching what I thought I was going to be teaching, but there are still bright points to every day. Today, Greg finally found one of the giant scorpions that lives around here. We’ve seen dead ones, but he found one in a hole. He thought it might be dead, so he poked it with a stick and it backed down the hole. He was very happy about that.

Another bright point was coming home and seeing Jambo wagging his tail. A dog’s unconditional love will always warm the heart.