Those extremely interested in more information on the ‘retreat and date’, which I will be sumarrizing here, may look at my brother’s beautiful writeup. The retreat being referred to would be the Palmview School Annual Retreat. Bible study, snack, food, snack, games, snack, singing, food, fun, snack, snack… maybe I’m exaggerating about the snacks Aunt Mary and her wonderful acolyte Asheley did the Bible studies (on excellence), my brother did the beautiful musicalness, and my mother did the games, snacks, etc We did a bonfire, a HUGE bonfire, so that was fun. They all slept outside in tents — not for me, no thanks! A certain someone would have to twist my arm pretty bad to get me to do that (or my parents order me :P) so I slept in my bed like a civilized person. Games included a sort of mini-golf which I totally bombed but had fun at anyway. Food included hamburgers and (wonder of wonders!) hotdogs. Plus we made tie-dyed tees! *is so happy* Mine came out with an awesome totally multi-colourishious sworl. I shall muchly be wearing cet un

Date, date… ah, yes, date! That was Aunt Mary and Asheley taking Daniel and I out to dinner. We were the chaperones Think guys chaperoning girls seems backwards? Tough! teehee it was a lot of fun, and Aunt Mary gave us both a copy of The Prayer of Jabez — I’m mostly done mine already Really good book.

Trip. Fall. Spat! Wait, uh, no, not that kind of trip. I went on a day-trip with (vous avez eu!) Aunt Mary and Asheley yesterday. They had a meeting to decide the fate of a youth camp they’ve been planning. It was a good Chadian experiance for me, especially right before I leave for good. Beigné (French for doughnuts, but these aren’t quite doughnuts, we just call em that), sugared milk, peanuts, boule, and two glasses of utterly revolting tea. Not the nice red-so-much-sugar-your-teeth-rot-before-you-finish shai, but some sort of herbal coffee bitter less-sugar thing Ah, well, on survive.

I’m going to NDJ with Dad on Monday for one week, and may or may not be out of contact during that time — I have no idea. Going to have a peek at their computer system et chose comme sa, haha. Have I totally annoyed you with all the French thrown into this post? rofl, sorry, still in semi-french mode from yesterday I’m sure you’ll all live — if any of you even read this. With Chels grounded and Trev busy I probably just have the occasional visit (which I know I have, but it’s not regular), but anyway, yup, uh huh, yayayayayayaya — lol, you’d have to see the movie

Until I see you or see you not or post or email or chat/IM + write again I shall not have, uh, done any of that… ya, teehee

Often on weekends a thought pops into my head — ‘I should do a personal post on all that’s happening!’. I begin to mentally catalogue what the post will contain so I’m ready. By the time Monday comes and I sit to write… nothing comes. Aint that the way of it? I guess a breif update on the state of affairs in Chad is in order. Elections went well and rebel activity seems to be back to normal. Of course that’s all unpredictable, but everything’s looking fine as of now. I burned a backup of all our data onto DVD the other day, which took forever, but is well worth it to have all our data on a nice small disk 🙂 I’ve done almost no school today. All I have left is my English final and Math stuff. Yup, kinda cool.

We watched The Sound of Music on Saturday — really funny! J’adore ces anciens films! 😉 We also got this new season pack from Uncle Larry… 24. It’s 24 1-hour episodes that each cover 1 hour of time over a whole day. Really well done, and really addicting. They always leave you hanging!

Man it’s hot here! Blah! The time to Chels’ return is approaching, but it still a fair ways off. Of course we’ll get but a breif time to talk and then both will be off to Canada and readjustment scedules. Deputation for her (bleagh!) and random whoknowswhat for me. mmm. *thinks* I should say something else, but my mind has gone blank… maybe I’ll go write a chapter in my book, hehe, I got some inpiration the other day so it should be easier 😉

’til I next do post or chat or whatever avec thou

So I’m almost done school YAY! didn’t do too well on my final chem exam… hope I pass :S *sigh* but hey, let’s not let that get me down! 😉 nothing I can do about it anyway. In a few short weeks I should be done all my schoolwork… if I don’t procrastinate through it all ;P Been doing a lot of code lately to keep myself busy. Chels has like two months left of grounding (don’t remind me!) but I’m making it ok — one day at a time 😉 uhh *thinks* the pool is open again! 😀 they had closed it to drain+clean+repaint it, but they’re done so we can go again, so that’s cool. Ah, right, the ‘situation’ here, I should mention that. As of right now the official word is that the rebels are licking their wounds in Soudan and the election is tomorrow. Word on the street is that they’ve regrouped and are ‘moving south’ — which means to Sahr and then here. The military in town are prepping just in case. Should be interesting, hehe. Aaaand, nothing much else happening so I’ll end this post for now 😉

So Trev tagged me and I’m gonna do this thing:

3 things I want to do or see before I die

1. Get married
2. Have kids
3. Bring glory to God through my life

3 things I can’t do

1. I cannot do anything remotely athletic
2. I cannot draw
3. I cannot fly

3 things that attract me to the opposite sex

1. Sense of humour
2. Being accepting
3. Holding fast to morals and integrity
4. Only three? that’s nuts!
5. Long hair (will people kill me if I list some physical stuff too? 😉 )

3 books and movies I love

1. The Bible
2. Byzantium and anything else by Stephen Lawhead
3. Black, Red, White — Ted Dekker
4. Many more 😉

3 things I say most often

1. 😉
2. What? Me?
3. Chels

3 things you should know about me

1. I speak French
2. I don’t speak Latin (yet)
3. I must be asked a more specific question to gain more insight ;P

And so I do tag my brother Daniel

So I haven’t posted in awhile… since Chels was first grounded which makes about 16 days. So what’s been going on? Well the two primary recent events around here are the Heritage Fair and my brother’s birthday party.

Heritage Fair
The Heritage Fair was a lot of fun. I didn’t look at the projects much (I never do) but they looked alright. I got to hold Emme Ezel most of the day (I love babies, and she is soo cute! :D) she has got to be the best-mannered baby I’ve ever played with too, hehe 😀 We played a couple games, one where you had to do a sand painting as fast as you could, one where you wrapped your teammate up in toilet paper to make a ‘totem pole’, one where you carried a paper ‘kiwi’ to a bowl by sucking on it with a straw (if that makes any sense) and the o-so-traditional trivia game. Then we had the International Dinner, which was very interesting, as always. We had macaroni and cheese, cabbage rolls, some sort of german potatoe salad, cheddar scalloped potatoes, crépes, maple surup pie, and some other stuff. Really good stuff, and lots of it 😀 If you want a second opinion check out my bros blog.

Dan’s B-Day
Dan’s bday was yesterday, and that was a lot of fun too 😀 We had TWENTY people there! 😯 comes from his birthday coinciding with spring break for RFIS and Palmview, so we had the whole Hoyt family (well, ok, not the boys, they’re in college, but whatever), the Puhl kids and their caretaker (not their parents though, hehe), and various and sundry others voilà. We did a bonfire with pizza and cake and then we the lesser in age played a few rounds of Mafia. Then at about 9:30 we all came back to our house (not all twenty of us, but those of us that were still coherent enough by that point, mostly the moins-agé) and watched Cool Runnings (gotta love that movie! :D)

And that’s about a goodness for updating all of thou on my wonderful livings. On another note, for those of you who prefer the wonderfully useless and inferior (sorry, I’m biased ;P) Xanga subs mechanism I am now cross-posting all my personal blog posts to there.