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Getting Away

Even though it takes a lot of work, it is always nice to get away from our city for awhile. This past week we took two flights to another island for a leadership conference with our company. Our kids absolutely love to fly! We have to take a whole day now for packing on the front end and resting on the back end. Traveling can be so exhausting with 3 little ones.

Our time at the conference was really nice. It is always great to be with other Westerners and to speak English with people who know and understand your situation. We had wonderful meetings where we were challenged to think through how we communicate in our culture and re-examine if we are sometimes communicating things we don't mean to with our actions and the way we use our time. It was very challenging! We feel like we are coming back with some good tools for learning. Even though we have been here 8 years, we still often feel that we have so much to learn.

The even was jam packed! We were up at 6 to get kids dressed and get them breakfast and then to our meetings at 8. Those went until 12:30 and then we had just one hour break to get everyone fed and back to our meetings. I think we crashed each night at around 9:30! :) So, it was a good time, but we came back very exhausted. Plus, all the kids got sick on our last day there. Though we've been back a week it feels like we are just now settling back in.






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