More Time at Oleiven

This morning at 11, I had a meeting at King's Hope in Oleivenhoutbosh, which is right at one hour away from our house. I left with Brian, Ethan, and Jaden at 10 and we got back around 4. The meeting was great. I met with a group of youth workers and pastors from the community while Brian and the boys interviewed some of the King's Hope workers. My meeting went really well and we have a few events planned in the community. The first will be held over the course of September 26-28. A group will come in and do abstinance promotion / HIV prevention awareness programs twice a day for these three days. We're hoping to have around 200 kids per event, which would be awesome. Then, as a kind of follow up to this program, there is an organization called Moral Regeneration that is working to organize three events that will allow youth to hear from drama clubs, community youth workers, and area pastors on different topics. We had a good meeting, but it was three hours long, so I was feeling for Brian and the boys. When we got done, I headed out to find the boys dozing in the car. They were glad I was finally out of my meeting so we could head home. On the way back, we did a little looking for a car and followed up on a car I had seen the other day for sale at a cheap price. I saw it Monday and didn't stop and today it's gone. That was disappointing. It was actually a BMW, but it was a really good price. It was right at R30,000 (which is roughly $4,000). We've struggled with the thought of buying a BMW here because they're actually not exotic cars here in any sense of the word. They're all over and they're really affordable. Unfortunately, we know the perception in the States is that a BMW is a luxury car and we aren't sure it would fly for us to be driving on of them when we had teams coming in from the states. Unfortunately, I will probably end up spending more on a car that isn't of the same quality simply for appearance's sake. It's a bit of a predicament, but it's all good. After following up on that lead, we drove to the dealership where we bought the Polo and we were (finally) able to pick up the license plates and registration for the vehicle. That's been a bit of a headache because of the fact that we live overseas. On the bright side, the license plates are plastic, so they just told us to throw away the temporary dealer plates we currently have, but we're keeping them for souvenirs.