Prayer

  We need prayer.  On June 6 we leave Indonesia and (after many long hours) arrive in SC the night of June 7.  After a few days in SC with Peter and fam, we will go down to FL to pick up Peace. She needs to be closer to family and MA seems to be the best location and Paul and Alisha have graciously said they will be available to her.  However, the point is to find her another independent/assisted living situation such as she has had for the past 10 years or so  in FL.  The paperwork is clear and eventually it should work out, but there is this immediate interim period which has just been impossible to facilitate.  MA says Peace needs 90 days in a skilled nursing facility for assessment and then she can step down to an assisted living situation.There apparently is room in assisted living, but it has been IMPOSSIBLE to find a skilled nursing facility that will accept her for the 90 days.  They will not even answer the phone calls that Peace's coordinator has placed multiple times.  S

Farewell to Indonesia

 My students threw a surprise farewell party for me last night!!! It was just so so sweet of them.  They really kept themselves quiet about it.....a little hard to imagine. All year long we have talked about movies, and last week they were pressing me for favorite movies.  I told them a few and they ended up choosing "Princess Bride",  which was such fun to watch at the party.  They had brought in plenty of food and drinks.  We sat around in the multipurpose room for over 3 hours and talked and watched the movie. The 9th graders had to leave after an hour or so because it was their grade level party at their sponsors' house.  They told stories about interactions with me and wrote such nice notes. There were about 30 of them.  I cannot express how touched I was.  Tonight is the end of year staff appreciation dinner.  That will be nice too. It is, as usual, at a restaurant about an hour away which is owned by the parents of some of our students.  It is always a good time. T