I heard from my son over the weekend.  Saturday and Sunday were rest days for them, so on Saturday they walked around and did a little shopping.  Jeffrey bought a hat.  On Sunday, they went to church and then to an alligator farm.  I have a picture of Jeffrey petting a rather large alligator.  I hope he comes back with all his limbs!  Tomorrow, it’s back to work for this team until Thursday, then they begin their two day journey back to Accra.

It was sort of a weird weekend for me.  I cut off a driver on Saturday and he pretty much terrorized me for the next four miles (I was making a safe lane change, but this other guy sped up in an attempt to not let me in – kind of a jerk move, really).  He had major anger issues after that.  At least he didn’t have a gun, though he did try to make me run into things and he got in front of me and slammed on his brakes.  Really, I should have dialed 911, but I was trying to avoid this jerk.  If he followed me too much more, I would have driven to the police station.   That evening, my buddy Ray and I attempted to add a much-needed second monitor to our Adult Ed computer so the video person could see what’s on the projector, but after two hours, we couldn’t get it to work.  We left very frustrated.

On Sunday, I got a little harassed by someone who doesn’t like me very much.  We’ve had some clashes in the past and it has become his mission in life to publicly humiliate me whenever he can while I’m teaching my Adult Ed. classes.  Usually, if he sees that I’m teaching, he simply doesn’t show up, but he really likes this particular study so he’s coming for that but he doesn’t really tolerate me as a teacher.  He looks for me to say something wrong and then he pounces on me.  C’mon guy, I’m a volunteer!  Let it go!  Besides, he was wrong in his ascertation that I was wrong when he interrupted me.  All he did was disrupt my class for no benefit and make for an awkward moment.  We need more grace in this world, not more law.  I’m pretty sure that’s in the Bible somewhere.

Well, my evening didn’t get much better.  The Niners got absolutely hammered by Seattle in a very painful, one-sided game.  At least all the other stuff between these events was pretty wonderful.  All in all, it was a pretty good weekend, though with some bumps along the way.