The airplane hangar has all of the walls up. They are getting ready to build the trusses. The new pediatric ward should have the ribbon-cutting ceremony sometime in June. In the meantime, we can send occasionally, and receive less frequently than that. That's hard, but that's how it is and we are thankful that we have the means to send at all.
Nothing ever happens on schedule around here.
It is only a frustration to expect that it will. It is really in our best interest to lay down our expectations and be thankful when things do work out. It only adds to the stress level to have a Western mind set in an African culture. The Gabonese have lived their whole lives not expecting things to happen on time, and they accept that without a word. Well, Monday it is back to work for both of us.