Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Small bits of progress

Nick had on his agenda for today some telephonic organisation. He spoke to the Chief Engineer, the Chief of Police and the Head Teacher at Pillings. The Chief Engineer said that they were having some meetings today, and tomorrow morning they would want to have a look at our house and church buildings to assess the damage. The Chief of Police said that Nick must phone the person in charge of government housing tomorrow, as they would be trying to get us accommodation (probably in Longwood) for a reduced rate. The Pillings Head Teacher said that we can have our Saturday club and Sunday evening services at the school – that is good news. So at the moment there is no progress as such, but things are happening. I just don’t want us to get forgotten about! We stayed at home most of the day since there was no reason to go to our house. We had school almost as usual, not without a lot of complaining from the boys though, but they got through all the work anyway. I’ve found that the threat of schoolwork can be a great motivator for them to find something to do… “you’re bored? Here’s a Maths worksheet for you” sends them scootling off to occupy themselves. They played outside for a while and found a really huge web spider at the top of the garden which they thought was quite amazing (actually it was). Tammy phoned during the day to invite us around for supper there tonight. Nick has a bible study this evening, but we went to their place at 5.30 for an early macaroni cheese, and left just after 7. It was good to be there – Tammy is a lovely person, very concerned for us all.

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