The picture to the left is of what happens when it rains a lot in Dominica. That water is from out of our faucets!!! Our water comes from the river behind our house. Sometimes it will be brown even when it doesn’t rain. We are told that that means it has rained a lot on the top of the mountain. Its really gross. We learned early on to store lots of full water bottles in the fridge so when this happens we (and Ellie) have clean water to drink! Some mornings Justin cant take a shower its so bad. OK – so that’s only happened once.

Then there are days like today when the water is just simply off. OK – that’s only happened once too. Today was the first time that its ever happened. We figure its because people are building apartments behind us and they cut it or turned it off or something. 

Another weird thing that happens here is that the power randomly goes off about once every other week. We love it when that happens because we have a generator. Which means that when the power is off were not paying for electricity and since the generator is running – we turn BOTH our air conditioners on. Sunday the power was off almost all day. It was great. I took a very long nap in the nice air conditioning!! We are SO thankful for our generator. Not many places have them. 

Monday is Justins second first mini!! Did yall get that one? He had a mini 1 in first semester and now hes having a mini 1 in second semester!! He is stressing!! Please pray hard for him. Pray that he will keep his focus and that he does not get so overwhelmed! He is studying so hard. He gets home about midnight every night and then studies some more when he gets home. He has been in class from 8-5 almost every day this semester. The only time we see each other is for lunch and dinner – each time about 45 minutes. Some nights I will sit in the classroom with him while he is studying just so I can “be” with him.  

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