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What can I tell

What can I tell you about today? We did the usual. Ate a puff pancake and listened to our church tape. It's so neat to be able to have those tapes. Without speaking spanish, going to church here is so difficult, especially for the boys.

After church we had to get a few things together for someone to take to Sucua. There will be three MAF families living in Sucua in a month. Two are there now. We're slowly sending all their belongings down. It's been a while since MAF has had any pilots at the Sucua base full-time, now we have two pilots there. Darryl and Sandi Holland used to be here in Shell. Chad and Andi Irwin are new to the program. In a few weeks a teacher will also be in Sucua. She's coming to teach two of the Holland boys. The other one will be at boarding school in Quito since he's in high school. The teacher, Suzie Kroker, used to teach in PNG. She arrived just a few months after I left in 1980. It's a small world. Here we both are in Ecuador.

Tomorrow the neighborhood is going to have a hotdog roast and celebrate Canadian Independence day. We're doing that because our neighbor is from Canada. The question is, should we invite the two MAF families who live off the base? We don't want to leave them out and offend them, but at the same time, we don't want this to turn into a big event. It was just supposed to be three neighboring families getting together to roast a few dogs. It's not always fun when the people you work with are the people you socialize with. This is one of those times when it might get awkward.

On a work related note, I rebuilt my server for Quito one more time this weekend. And it still isn't working the way it should. Tomorrow I'm going to take off in a different direction with it and see if I can't do something to get a working system.