Thanks So Much!

Aaron and I just wanted to say a huge thank you to everyone who sent us packages over Christmas: Val and Keith, Grandpa and Grandma Siersma, Aunt Ann, Grandma Lois, Mom and Ron, Jenn, Bruce and Mardi, Holly, and Grandma Rose. We really appreciated it, you all are great.

We biked into town today to buy some eggs so I just wanted to say a quick thanks. It turns out that there is an egg season, who knew! We can't get eggs in our village, so we've been eating lots of oatmeal and granola but now we are out of that, so it's time to stock up again.

Life is good. School has started so we are keeping busy. Last week, as I am sure you noticed, Obama became president so everyone here was really excited. We listened to the ceremony on the radio and one of the stupid BBC correspondents (after she finished describing what the entire Obama family was wearing) actually said "the first African man has become the President of the United States". We brought a bag of M&M's to school to celebrate with the other teachers and afterwards one of them said he now understood how Americans can get fat so easily with candy like that.

Okay, that's all for now. We are planning a trip to hike Mt. Kilimanjaro in June so more on that later...