Hello from Bolivia!

Happy Saturday to everyone~

Here’s the news for the week…

     Firstly, Jeff is happily working on his project designing the remodel for the upper campus library. Currently, light fixture proposals are on the table. A creative idea that may fly is one we saw in a restaurant in La Paz a couple of weeks ago, where a square of translucent fabric was suspended below bare light bulbs, both hiding and softening the light source. This seems like an inexpensive and attractive option to replace the dim, clinical lighting in the current space. Do you have some other ideas like this one that you’d like to contribute? Please comment below or send Jeff a Facebook message sometime this week.

      Secondly, I have spent the week in a Vicodin haze. One of my teeth broke off, and inside was a hidden cavity that apparently developed behind a loose filling. The dentist thinks I may need a root canal. Not the greatest impact on our finances, but at least this sort of work is much less expensive here than at home. So, I am waiting until payday (April 1) to go back to La Paz for that. In the meantime, please keep me in your prayers, as the nerve is exposed and quite painful at times.

      Thirdly, this week we said goodbye to our friend Hugh, who is no longer the Director of the UAC, but has taken a position with the Carmen Pampa Fund working with donor relations. He will be based out of Boston, it looks like. We will miss him, but he assured us he will be back here a couple of weeks before we leave, so we will get to see him again then.

      Finally, Delaney is hard at work on her second semester classes. Internet access is a chronic issue for her, and can be quite frustrating at times. She is in the home stretch now, though. If you have a few moments to stop by her Facebook page and offer her some encouragement, I’m sure she would appreciate that. Words from home are always welcome!!

      As our thoughts are beginning to turn towards our return, we have all realized how much we are looking forward to that. We love it here, especially we love the students and families that have become our friends and family here. We will always have them, and we will miss them when we leave, but we also miss our friends and family back in the States. One thing we will be doing this week is making a list of places to go and things to see before we leave – that will be a bit bittersweet!!

      Please know you are all in our prayers.

Love,

Susan