Guests

 Do you remember these two lovely faces? If you don’t, don’t feel bad, everyone looked the same to us too, when we first moved to Africa. Anyhow, these faces are Mariama and Maman- our host family/neighbors from Guinea. It was hard to leave them when we moved to Senegal, and we told them that our doors are always open (be careful who you say that too, haha) if they would ever want to come and visit. WELL…Mariama called last month to tell us that she was sending Maman (she’s about 9 years old) up to Dakar to spend the summer with us, her “white parents”. We were super excited. Mariama called back this week to tell us that the plan was still on and that now she, Maman, and her teenage son Lucien will be coming to visit! She said that after a month she and her son will return to Conakry and leave Maman here with us for the remainder of the summer. Sounds like a blast to see them again, but a bit overwhelming as we think through the details. Our apartment is built for two (small!) and Maman will be just fine sleeping on our couch, we just need to figure out the best place for the other two. Shawn has been running around like a mad man trying to figure out what our options are. Thankfully, it’s not uncommon for people to rent a room for a month or two. We’ll see what comes of it. They called yesterday to say that they are leaving in a day or two, and they are coming by taxi (which is a looong 3 day trip), so we are tentatively expecting them this weekend! Yikes! Who’s going to cook for them?! Hopefully all of those details will work themselves out. Shawn talked to a Senegalese man who works at our mission base, and he said it would be no prob for them to rent a room from his family for a month, and that they could pull their $ together to buy and prepare meals. Sounds good to me! Maybe I’ll move in too, ha. Either way, this will be an interesting {and fun} experience for us!!

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