Andrew begins his flying training!

Over the past few days Andrew has begun his flying training here in Chad. Yippee.

It has been challenging due to weather restraints -  one day it was too hot here to start the plane until 5pm (he began work at 7am!) so it was a day of theory learning and watching the thermometer. Today, as I write this, after getting up at 5am to hopefully fly before it gets too hot, the dust seems to be a problem and visibility poor so I do not know if he is up in the sky or not.

Please pray that over the next week he will complete the training necessary as Patrick, the person training him, works for MAF in Madagascar and has to return next tuesday.

We have also brought a car....... Very exciting and if you remember my little old red corsa we used to have, this is very different. A toyota 4runner, automatic, 3.4L and 4 wheel drive -  needed here if we leave the city roads.  Car shopping was an experience. Here you find a car you like in the garage in your price range and that is it generally. There is no real choice of specifications  -  if the car is OK then whatever the specifications are, they are either a bonus or not. It was a testing time car shopping in the 42C heat, with a toddler and in French! Praise God that we were able to go with a local MAF employee to help us out. Another difference was the need to go to the bank and withdrawi the money to buy the car in cash.......

We continue to feel blessed here and pray that our shipping, which should arrive on Wednesday to the airport, comes to us successfully with minimum custom fees....  We are all very excited about the thought of opening the boxes to see exactly what we packed up over 7 months ago! Zack just has one request -  that he gets his track back!