Trip to Ghana

The view from our room
Our room
Me and Jolie sleeping on the way to Ghana :)
Sorry that it has been such a long time since I posted. Not much has been going on except that we took a vacation to Ghana. We stay in a little town called Axim. There wasn't much to do there, but we had a nice that at the beach. We were able to ride a tube on the waves, it was alot of fun. We had a nice time just relaxing and hanging out. We also were able to bring Jolie, I didnt know what I would of did without her! :) She did a good job traveling, on the way there she got sick a few times, but on the way back she didnt get sick at all. We had bought her a carrier, which she likes. That is good because we want to bring her with us when we going state side around October 2011.

Now that we are back, Mom and Dad have started back French class today, and I have been working getting my school set up for next month. (Which Im NOT looking forward too. ;) This year Im doing an online school, Northstar Academy. I will have real teachers telling me my work, and I will be able to talk with other kids on there too.

Hope you all had a good 4th of July, wish we could have been there!

Miss you all,

Autumn

It's summer!

I've been done with school for about 2 weeks now, I was happy to be finished! Lately, I have just been hanging around the house. So I dont have any pictures to upload. I also have been going with Mom and Dad to the small group they are taking over next week. If you check out thier blog you can see the pictures of the men who just got bapitized. 

Jolie is doing good. She had a skin rash because she was allergic to her dog food, so we had to change her diet to tuna and rice. (such a needy dog ;) I'm trying to get Dad and Mom to get another dog, but they think one is enough. ;)

French is still coming..... we seem to be learning more and it's sticking, but it's still a HUGE prayer request. 

Sorry this is a really short post (like most of them), but if you want more info on what's going on around here you can check out my parent's blog at www.westafricajourney.blogspot.com 

Thanks for all you prayers,

Autumn  

Long time.... No post

                                             My bedroom
                                             Dad and Mom cooking fried chicken in the kitchen :)
                                              Dining Room

                                             Living Room (notice the lovely checkered floor ;)
                                             Mom and Dad's bedroom

So, mine soon wasn't very soon. We didn't get alot of pictures but if you want to see a picture of one of the messed up bowling balls my parents have posted it on thier blog.  Alot has happened lately, we have said goodbyes to many of our missionary friends in the last 3 weeks! We have also found out that there is more families near Abidjan with kids, so we will hopefully meet them soon.

We also went on vacation for a few days, it was fun. We got to do some swimming in the ocean, and went to a crocodile farm. The crocodile farm was really cool because we not only saw huge crocs but snakes and stuff too! Dad even held a Boa. 

We have finally got almost all of our furniture for our house! Today we got our bed frames. I added some pics above. We also have satellite tv now!!! It gives us something to do, I watch it during the day, and mom and dad watch it when their not studying french... hehe.

Prayer Request:

1. French!!!

2. Me a friend still. I have been talk to another american missionary girl my age that live near by so we should meet them soon!

Bonfire

Roasting Hotdogs

Getting the fire started, also the taller African

girl comes and plays basketball with me some-

times, she is 13 also.

Jolie and her massive ears ;)

Last Friday night we had a bonfire at with the other missionaries at our teammates house, which was alot of fun! :) We started rosted hotdogs and marshmellows, which we made Smores out of! After sitting outside for a while I decided to go in and watch basketball. ;) It's always alot of fun to go hang out with the other missionaries!

Most of our, well mainly my parents', time is learning French. Tomorrow they are having their first evaluation to see where they are.... so be in prayer for that! I feel like I'm learning quite a bit too.... since I don't have a teacher that speaks English so it's hard for me to learn past and future, but I can tell you alot in present tence. ;) One thing has been proven, you most likely won't learn a language fleuntly just for the fun of it, you have to have a reason! Our's is that people may know Jesus!

Tonight we are celebrating our missionary friend's birthday by going bowling (African version... they say the lanes got some bumps in them, we will see ;) I will get pictures and add them!

Well this is all the "news" I can think of for a blog. ;) I'll try to get those pictures up of bowling soon. (African version of soon: around a week ;)

Miss you all,

Autumn

Hey Everyone!

Jolie

Jolie playing with her African cloth.

Me sitting on one of the columns.

The columns

The Basilica

Mom and Dad on Valentines Day night.

Well this time I have't blogged in forever! I'm sure your about to give up on looking at my blog. ;) My parents had church planting training a few weeks ago, and now we are back in the swing of things... right now that is called French. We can tell we have been improving. I don't really have a formal teacher like Mom and Dad do.... mine is a African lady that speaks only French (no English) and she's great!

As you seen on my parents' blog that we went to the Basilica.... it was huge! I don't like elevators, so I didn't go up to the top of it. ;) I've added some pictures of it. We went to the beach yesterday also.... I love the beach! The waves are still to high to get far out into it.... but it fun just sticking your feet in it. That is one thing a love about Abidjan!

Oh... and don't let me forget about our rat that runs around the house, or was that a puppy? Which ever one I think she's great! She grown alot since the picture on my parents' blog. She is a very good puppy.... she actually likes the box she is staying in! She only wakes me up about once in the night to go out. If we could only train her not to bite ;) but i guess that will come in time.

Tomorrow we are meeting with the West Africa schooling consultant. That will give us an idea of what we may do this year. Most likely I will do an online school, but there is also an international school here in Abidjan.... but it's probally to far to drive this year.

Well this is about all I can think of to blog about ;) (I know it's been about a month and this is all!) Don't forget to come see us! We would love to have you come! We miss everyone!

Autumn

Goodbye Harmatan, Welcome back HEAT!

Real peanut butter :)

Good ol' American food ;)

Our tubs

We got the enjoy some "cooler" weather for about a week, all the dust from Harmatan was in the air so it was not as humid! Yesterday we welcomed back the heat and humidity. ;) We are starting to get settled here, it's really nice to be in the city you will be investing your time in. :) We are starting to get some of our own stuff.... it makes it feel alot more homey when you have your own furniture. I have also met some other girls my age, there is a girl that I have played with a couple of times, she just came here from Burkina Faso.... so she doesn't speak much French eigther. There is also a girl that lives down the street that I went and played soccer with on Saturday, that was fun. So I'm starting to meet some people so maybe I will find a good friend soon.

These next two weeks will be alot of fun! There are two girls here, that are near my age, while their Dad teaches my parents about church planting. Then after two weeks they will return to Mexico. Also in about 2 monthes or so, I will be getting a puppy! :) I'm VERY excited about that! We went to the dog store here, and they had a Yorkie that will be having puppies soon. They are suppose to be born at the end of January (which should be anytime :) then they have to stay with their mom for 2 monthes.

We recieved our six tubs that we sent over here! It's very nice to have REAL peanut butter, poptarts (they go pretty quickly ;), fruit-roll-ups, and all that good stuff :)

Thanks for the prayers,

Autumn

Welcome to Abidjan

Our flooded road...... they say it gets higher in rainy season!

Me and Snowflake

Our house

Hey!

So my parents have been bugging me for not doing a post in such a long time, so I doing a short one now ;) Well as I said we have arrived in Abidjan! It's great, hot, sticky, and GREEN! Thats the four words that describe it... well and one more... lost. We have had a great first few weeks here... we just got started back to French this week, we are back to life ;) I will be so happy when we know it! :)

Things are much different here than in Bamako, have I mentioned it's GREEN??? Haha... I think I have, but it is no understatement.... we have grass that has to be mowed! :) Also it rains here year round.... well not as much in dry season (which is right now and its been raining alot ;) But when it rain our road floods.... as you can see above!

We really enjoy it here in Abidjan... continue to pray for French (it's a huge task!) and for me to find friends.

Miss you all,

Autumn