the august entry

so the pattern seems to be that i update the blog once a month. could be better, but it's not really that bad... as always, the place to find more of what's happening is on my flickr.

july/august has been the month of hellos and good-byes. three good friends visited and/or left. martha estafanos left haifa after almost four years... she came the same week victor and i did so it was really hard to see her go after all this time. sahba rohani along with sister shiva and brother-in-law nate made a visit to their parents who are serving here and matt cornelius came back after six months in southern africa... he's still here (pics of sabz and matt to come later)... so there's been a lot of catching up and spending quality time...

other great news from july is one of my dearest friends, sisay, got engaged to laurel. they're going to get married in haifa at the beginning of october. you know how families say you don't lose your child when they marry someone, but you gain a child instead? it can also be so true when friends get married. laurel has grown into such a close friend in such a short amount of time.. not only for me, but for aliyah who absolutely adores her. well done sisay. ;)