We’re going on an egg hunt...

Earlier this week we got quite excited when we were told we had a parcel waiting for us in the post office. We were hoping that it would be from our Grandma, containing long awaited Easter eggs! Only one shop sells them in town and they are very expensive as they are hand-made.

A parcel!

When we went to pick up the parcel the next day after school, we were surprised and even more excited to find there were two more! In the evening, we opened the three parcels and discovered the long awaited Easter eggs but also an early birthday present for Ruth and… a rather late birthday present for Mum from last June! This is a perfect example of Chadian post: one day we’ll get a newspaper from a few days ago and the next a six-month-old letter! Who knows how it works, it can be very entertaining! We’re just glad to receive things.


Melting the chocolate

Squeezing the choccolate out

So this year, despite being saved at the last minute, we’re quite short of Easter eggs. Luckily, we have some emergency Easter egg moulds for such occasions and have spent the afternoon first melting chocolate in the solar cooker and then either squeezing it into small egg moulds or painting it onto the big one! It’s been very fun, much better than just buying some! 

"Finding" small eggs

Dad "found" a big egg!

We’ve been back at school for about 3 weeks now. We don’t get “Easter holidays” as they don’t fit into the French school year but we will get Monday off.

To celebrate Easter, we will get up at dawn on Sunday morning to see the sun rise like last year. As there aren’t any nearby hills to climb up, we all stood on the table tennis table and even got out a step ladder! We often try to do a small Easter egg hunt (when we have some) even though we have to rush before they melt.

Easter Sunday 2014

After that we will probably go to our nearest Chadian church and celebrate. In the afternoon there will be a sort of concert with songs, short sketches and bible readings. In the evening we will have our weekly bible study with the other missionaries on the compound, singing, and praying together. 



A card for Ruth

Our latest Christmas card!

Dad has just come in with some more post, a Christmas card from 2013, another early birthday card for Ruth and news of another parcel. I wonder what we will find in it this time!

Our Easter garden, a collection of just about every green plant around the banana tree! 

Joyeuses Paques and Mubrak Id from hot Chad!