last week and all it contained!!!

Monday - was so long ago I don't even remember what we did. I do know that Robert proctored for ISATs but other than that don't know.Tuesday- Robert proctored again and I went to put children on the buses and register them in school. I spent the early afternoon tutoring library skills. We went to some Bosnian friends home of ours for dinner. It was fun. We enjoyed pork chops, chicken and peppers, baked potatoes, corn, tomato and cucumber salad and bread with juice and beer. The discussion hit all topics, food, drugs legal and not, gangs in Boise, God (is He or isn't He) and culture.Wednesday- Robert proctored. The late afternoon was spent going to a track meet and watching some of our kids run track for their schools. It is fun to watch them succeed in a regular school setting. That evening we took kids to youth group and then went into the neighborhoods while we were waiting for youth group to end. After youth group, while dropping off kids in their neighborhoods we saw three police cars and policemen all over the neighborhood. Not a very comfortable scene. We got home and tutored math and English. It is down to the college wire so we are on call all of the time.Thursday- Robert proctored. I did registrations and BAM work and worked with young man on library skills. That afternoon we went into three neighborhoods and ended up talking to many different families about different needs they have. When we got to the neighborhood we had been in the night before we accidentally got called into a large community meeting. One of their people had been arrested the night before and now here we were. We were there to tell one of the men about a meeting for his child at the school and here we end up in this meeting. They want Robert to help them find a lawyer, to find out how much the bond is and to find a bondsman. Some of the men from this community came to our home so we could give them information. After that meeting we had a meeting at nine thirty that night. It was a very busy day. Friday- Robert proctored. I took my kids and a Liberian kid on a field trip to a farm outside of Weiser. We spent the afternoon walking the hills, looking at sheep and digging for fossils. I dropped my cell phone into a mud puddle and busted it. Wasn't happy! That afternoon we dropped our person into the neighborhood and just as she left three jr high boys landed in our van. We went to take care of my phone and as Robert was in the store taking care of the phone the boys were watching a movie in our van. This works great to keep them calm but alas the car died and we couldn't get it started. That was a real pain. Finally a man who was a mechanic saw us having problems and was able to get it started. One of the boys, with all sincerity looked at me and said "See Debbie! God He always has our back! He takes care of us!" I enjoyed that. Finally about 9:30 we rolled back into the neighborhood and dropped off the boys. We were tired by the end of that day.Saturday- we spent the morning at a basketball game and the late evening helping a jr high kid catch up on science. We were up late again.Sunday- we picked up two families for church. After church we dropped off one of the families and headed to the Sudanese church where Robert was teaching. By that time I was sick. I had been feeling sick since Thursday but I was done by then and just stayed in the car and slept. Again when we were headed home our van wouldn't start. After a half an hour Robert was able to get it started. We have to get it checked. By the time we got home I went to bed and Robert tutored. Today Robert is sick. Sick stinks.