Less than 2 months

That's all that's left ... less than 2 months. I've mentioned
it many times that time has flown by.

Since my last blog entry, a while ago, we have been through
a Coup d'Etat that ended up as well as it possibly could.
It was a crazy few weeks where we left our sites and
awaited the outcome in another area of Burkina. When the
coast was clear we returned.

It is the time to start closing things up and with school restarting
it gave us the chance to do 2 more sessions of the sex-education
project. There was a class last school year that we didn't get a
chance to get to but if it goes well we will be having the girls
of that class come out to the maternity building for the activity
this upcoming Saturday. We will try and probably will get to
the boys next week. I have to just talk to the teacher and we
will work out a time.

As it goes, I should be home a few days before Christmas and
in the middle of the cold weather. Not like here where cold
weather is about 50 degrees at the lowest first thing in the
morning for about a month, tops. After about 8:00 on those
mornings the sun takes over.

I am in the preparing to go close of service meeting.
When I return it will be cleaning up any loose
ends and looking to clean out the accumulation of two years.
I have kept it somewhat minimal with only what I've really needed
but things still pile up. Today I am in the nearest small
city so tomorrow, I will get to start dumping.

Also, at this time there is always the 'what is ahead' variable that
rears it's head. At this moment I am kind of formulating loose
plans but am not getting too involved with that process yet. I was
thinking of getting back and then get to the grinding
stone to hash out something. But always, there are plans, a few
grandiose, a few not so exotic.

So, the next few weeks will fly by even faster than usual. It is a
time to also close up shop with relationships made during the
last 2 years. It is always a challenge living with people in a
different culture. And that goes for me with them and them
with me. But it works out and in the end we get to leave a few
friends behind.

But as the saying goes ... when one door closes another one opens.
Just got to figure which door to choose at this point.