The last few weeks

Hey, it's been a while since we've updated the ol' blog, so we figured we'd just give a sampling of what's been happening over the last few weeks.

A couple weekends ago, we put on our old youth leader hats (not literally) and helped out on a youth retreat with our international fellowship. It was a good time with about a dozen youth from all over the world, though very little sleep was to be had. We came back rather tired, and (in another sign that he's becoming an old man) Steven proceeded to get a flu-like thing a couple of days later--fever, chills, headache--all that fun stuff. For her part, Joelle had sympathy sickness for about 14 seconds and was fine after that.

As I (Steven) was starting to recover from my flu symptoms, a nasty sore throat set in and refused to go away. Since we were headed to the clinic for follow-up X-rays of my broken thumb we just had the doctor take a look at my throat (which he figured was probably strep) and had some antibiotics prescribed. My thumb is healing fine, but I'm starting to get tired of health issues.

The school year is wrapping up here, which means that a lot of our team members will soon be heading back to their home countries for the summer. Since we arrived mid-year, we'll be among the few from our organization who stick around in Hanoi for the whole summer. From everything we've heard and experienced so far, it's gonna be a toasty one, for sure. One of the couples who's leaving for the summer has asked us to house sit for them while they're gone, and we've obliged. Since their family lives permanently in Hanoi and includes two children, their house is a wee bit bigger than our current studio apartment, plus we won't have to pay rent for a few months. We're definitely excited to get to know our new neighbors and a different area of town.

Well, that's all the news that's fit to print for now. Do keep in touch, and keep checking back here. I'm sure something exciting will happen soon and when it does, rest assured it'll end up on the blog. Tam biet for now!