Visa Update: Yes, we will most likely have to leave the country on or before October 10th. Our current extension as tourists ends on the tenth of October. Bill is still researching the closest destinations. The school understands and will be flexible for us. We have gotten our birth certificates Red Ribboned at the appropriate Embassy's in the states. But there was a glitch with our wedding license. Bill has faxed the request for a new one to be sent to a daughter in Indiana, who will then forward it to the Philippine Consulate in San Francisco. Once the document receives the Red Ribbon authentication it will be sent back to our daughter and finally will be sent to us here in Davao City. It is very unlikely that all this will occur in the next 35 days. If we leave the country we can re-enter and get another 30 day tourist visa. The 9(g) visa that we are working towards will cost us approximately $900.00. The round trip flight will depend on a few factors, but flight alone will cost at minimum of $500.00.
This has been such an arduous process. Here is a link to the instructions that Bill created to help our daughter with the process.
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Wendi is volunteering at the HS Library everyday!
Be sure to read her story below.
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I started volunteering at the high school every day. I work in the library supervising those study halls which are held in the library. To get there in good time, I need to be walking out the door with Angel at 11 a.m. with our lunches packed and my backpack organized. An organized backpack has our lunches, a water bottle, a pull-up and change of clothes for the Cherub just in case, diaper wipes, an umbrella, my notebook, change for transportation in case I get it, crochet, and a couple handkerchiefs and/or hand towels, plus, sometimes, a change of shirt for me. More often, I wear a cotton t-shirt under whatever I am wearing and take it off when I get to school.
Then we walk. If we are lucky, I can flag a trike after walking for about ten minutes, and I am only sweating enough to use one handkerchief to wipe off my face and neck and one hand towel to pat my hair dry, and we’ll pay 15 to 20 pesos for the ride (.30 to .40 cents). If we are not lucky, we walk all the way.* I open up the umbrella for portable shade which drops the temperature from being fried like an egg on an over hot skillet with a blowtorch to finish off the top down to being steadily and aggressively poached. The humidity here is no joke.
It takes 20-25 minutes, including a harrowing couple of minutes on a curve with no side-walk so we are in the road and it is a very, very busy road and yesterday a motorcycle came too close for comfort twice. We’ll avoid the water buffalo poop on the sidewalk and the Cherub won’t stomp in a puddle or two or three and splash me with muddy water, if we’re lucky. When I arrive at the school I will have a face like a tomato (No exaggeration, I took a selfie once and posted it and the next week at church a ten year old asked me what was wrong with my face in that picture, why was it redder than a tomato? I-love-children-they-are-so-honest).
The sweat is unspeakable. Tropical climates are killer. My hair will be soaked all the way through. The t-shirt I am wearing under my light cotton top is drenched. I look like I’ve been hosed off with something greasy. Angel, who has poor circulation and never sweats and is normally cold will be warm to the touch. I take her to the teacher’s lounge and we go in the bathroom, where the air con doesn’t reach, and I take off that wet t-shirt, splash my face, wipe myself down with a diaper-wipe and then the face towel and get dressed again, then I get Angel a drink, and I drink 16 ounces of water in a gulp and refill my thermos, and then we go to the library, which is deliciously air conditioned because of the books, and I stay there for the next 4 hours shushing students, asking personal questions like, "Is looking up Marvel comics online something you are doing for school? Is that a cell phone in your pocket? (they are supposed to leave phones in their lockers) and "Are you sure you really need to go to the bathroom right now?"
Angel and I have a half hour to 40 minute break when my husband comes and keeps an eye on things while I take the her back to the teacher’s lounge and feed her (and myself if there is time), and take us both to the bathroom and re-hydrate.
*I could catch a cab after about two blocks, when I am only moderately sweaty, and I can catch a cab pretty much every time, but that costs closer to .80 cents, and occasionally a dollar, for a very, very short ride and it’s hard for me to justify that.
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What a school year this has started out to be. Actually, it began before school started with Bill actively working with admissions. Bill is teaching a Language class to a combined class of 6th & 7th graders totaling thirteen students and another Language class of 8th graders which is another twelve students. He is only scheduled to do this until a teacher who is on furlough returns at the beginning of the second quarter. He is still working with three to four other students who are struggling for various reasons. He has been asked by a high school Bible Teacher to take his class for a month or so while goes on furlough in the second quarter.
When he is not busy with one of those tasks, he is working on his part of the of the accreditation process that each teacher is helping with. Between now and the first semester of next year, they will accomplish a self-study and the following year the accreditation team will come in. FIA is accredited by both the Association of Christian School International (ACSI) & the Western Association of Schools & Colleges (WASC).
Policy dictates that each sports team must have a coach of the same gender, so since the volleyball coach is a female (who also played for Auburn) Bill was asked to help with coaching volleyball this season. He is there to keep them motivated. Luckily for him he likes volleyball because he's committed to being at all the practices and games!
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Recently, I was given the privileged to speak to the congregation here on a Sunday evening as the most of the evangelists were at a week-long study. Thanks to Brother CB for translating the slides for me & no I can’t read them, but I did become familiar with the title of “A letter from prison, a letter of joy" and the four Joy Robbers as taken from Paul’s letter to the Church in Philippi.
They are as follows:
1. Circumstances
2. Pride & Selfishness
3. The Flesh
4. Worry
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Below is a picture of Eleazar Ebuenga. Many of my Brothers in Christ know him; some have even done evangelistic work with him. He has sent me these pictures and is asking if any of his brothers can help him build this new building. The Church Buildings here are not luxurious by any means. The evangelists work hard, in both a dangerous geographical area where there is potential Muslim backlash and treacherous travel conditions.
You may contact him at eleazarebuenga@yahoo.com.ph and if I can be any help by way of transferring the funds, please let me know.
Every hour the sun is rising on your various brothers throughout the world.
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A few pictures of the market.
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So you also, when you have done all that you were commanded, say,
‘We are unworthy servants; we have only done what was our duty."
Luke 17:10
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