Today I came home to the news that my brother Tim and his wife Paige are going to have another baby! AAHH! Yay I am so excited for them, because even though I don't like babies very much, closely related babies are an exception (like Ellie! Not a baby anymore, though). This is the ultrasound they put up on facebook (finding out huge family news like this on facebook... one of the drawbacks to living in Africa). But eeeeee!

Other than that, today was full of little delights: for one, Chris installed a new water heater in the girls' bathroom and so we will have hot showers every day! On second thought, that is much larger than just a little delight. Also Katelyn, Nelly, our friend Laura and I took a taxi into town to go ballroom dancing! Which is a bit ridiculous, because I can't dance, but it's fun to learn anyway, and we met up with a Peace Corps volunteer Brittany whom I met last year, and who knows the Jacksons well. Apparently us Americans are "so straight!" and need to learn to move our hips! So that's what our lesson mostly consisted of... standing and swaying our hips and being chastised by Cameroonian men who move their hips much, much better than any woman or girl I have ever seen! Haha. We all also made a trip to visit Aunt Julie, a woman the Jacksons know, and gave her the fabric to make our dresses for Sallah, the Muslim holiday at the end of Ramadan. We celebrate it with Fadi and her family in the village Sabba Njowra, and since Ramadan just started, it's still about a month away.

We also are one step closer to having an internet line of our own in the house, instead of having to depend on the wireless connection from the nearby SIL office. Chris says the trees in between here and there are most likely interfering with the connection, being so full of water in the rainy season... Oh the things that become issues in Africa! I find it humorous, though frustrating at times. But hopefully we will get out own line soon, and hopefully it will be better than the one we have now!