Well, I recently discovered that Transport Canada has determined we require three more courses to be Captain of an inshore fishing vessel under 65 Tonnes.
So, my Bambara language study is slipping through my fingers, as some other pressing matters jump up before me, and now I have to spend several weeks in class for this training. Had to cancel a speaking engagement as a result. A bit frustrating since I had just spent two full days preparing what I was going to say.
I can't wait to get back to Africa. Some exciting changes coming in the near future as we prepare for a new Community Development Project to help with Poverty among the people we work among.
Mali, West Africa, will be our new home for the majority of time until 2012, as we learn language, and culture, customs etc. But we should have the development project is full swing by the end of 2012 and then more decisions to be made.
Our daily lives involve planning the the future. At times It seems like most of our friends wake up wondering what they will eat for breakfast, and then maybe supper, with a few events jotted on the calender, and then wonder what the will do with their weekend.
At some point in every day, seven days a week, we are discussing & planning things 2 to 5 years in advance. But we enjoy it and have weaved that mentality into our beings.
What we have discovered is that we all have a default manner of living. If one fails to intentionally plan to assist the poor in body and spirit; well, we end up living the default of our individualistic culture. Drifting in a life and making plans about "ME" and our future, with little time considering how we can improve the future of others. I don't want to live our cultural default.
Excited and a bit overwhelmed at the same time. Much to do, and yet to be done.
I can't put into words
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