Saturday, March 15, 2008

Update - March 15

The Harding Academy group headed for Livingstone on Thursday morning. They were a wonderful addition to our campus, and we were privileged to host them.

I said in an earlier blog that the Harding students would leave a bit of themselves here at the Mission. That proved to be true in a very literal sense, because many of them left behind clothes and other items to be given away! Yesterday I gathered up all the donated items and spread them out on my veranda. The sponsored students at the high school came over and selected six items each to keep. They had a great time sorting through blue jeans, skirts, T-shirts, towels, and shoes to find what they wanted.

The Harding students also left us some of their snack foods. True confession: I ate three packages of Pop-Tarts on Thursday. (I didn't even really like Pop-Tarts when we lived in the US!) We also received granola bars, trail mix, and sugar coated cereals. Yes, the Harding Academy left fond memories in our household.

2 comments:

Mary Ann Melton said...

I am so glad that you have so many visitors. But I suspect that when they leave, they leave a vacant spot where they are missed. I really enjoyed the tales of these Harding students!

Anonymous said...

Thank you so much for taking care of those things we left. I hope it wasn't too much of a mess and that the way we organized it helped a little.--Christine