Can I Just Cheat?

 I'm not really writing a blog today. I'm borrowing. 

 Hi everyone, I'm just gonna be real honest and open here. Writing never was my thing. I've taken over the correspondence but Kevin is still the one who loves to write and is my editor! And these days I'm way to tired and way to emotional to actually write about life.

 So, in light of that I just want to share some pictures and encourage you to read another blog I've linked. (Yes, I am learning how to manipulate a computer in spite of my favoritism toward paper.) 

Enjoy these images of the end of our year.

Each year, on the morning of graduation the parents organize a breakfast to enjoy time together with their soon to be graduates and each other. It also helps ensure the kids get to practice on time!

A fun tradition began years and years ago when the school used to be at the old center. The leaving seniors would paint or otherwise decorate a wall of the pavilion. Their images lasted a while and got painted over. Here, at the "new" site, the first graduating class painted a section of the wall surrounding the soccer field. And so the tradition continues but their design will remain as long as the paint doesn't peel away!

banquet: a time to celebrate and begin to say goodbye      

Some
more
awesome
traditions:

senior pranks on the school

senior trip to the beach

words of affirmation spoken to each graduate

Cameroon jersey signed by classmates and teachers, presented to each graduate by a sibling or underclassman (no photo)

prayers by staff for every graduate

good friends make for hard goodbyes

That promised "other blog" is written by a dear friend of Kaiah's. We are friends with this family that serve alongside us in Cameroon in a different mission. It is a great reflection on what this season has meant to us all.

https://africansandinourshoes.com/2017/06/12/april-showers-bring-may-flowers/