Preparing to Leave for Canada!

Nine days: That’s how much time we have left to accomplish everything that needs to get done before we are scheduled to leave for Canada! We have finals to finish, our last few days at work, moving out of our apartment, and finding time to squeeze in as much Rosetta Stone as possible!

Ryan is graduating Saturday, May 18^th from Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.  I can’t express how happy I am for my husband. When we first met, he had no intentions of ever graduating college. And then he found Christ within him, and was more motivated than anyone I have ever met to get not just one, but two degrees from a Bible college! He has found joy in learning, especially when it comes to learning about God’s word. He is enrolled in Southern Baptist Theological Seminary for this fall to continue his education and get a master’s degree. For a guy who probably never read through an entire book for the first twenty years of his life, we now have more books than we know what to do with! I can only imagine how many more are going to fill our shelves. J

As for Canada, we have been truly blessed by the members of NorthRidge Church to be sent to Quebec City for the entire summer to learn French. We are enrolled in a summer program at a language school where we will be learning to speak French in a classroom for 30 hours a week. Alongside school and work this spring semester, we have been slowly working our way through Rosetta Stone to get as much knowledge of the language as we can before we get there.

However, our scheduled date to leave is May 19^th… I have been having many problems with getting my passport back and we have been praying daily that it will get here in time. If it does not arrive next week, we are sort of at a loss of what to do. We are praying for patience and trying to figure out how to get it in time, which could involve personally driving to New Hampshire to get it. But we are hoping that does not happen!

Anyway, the reason that we are going to learn French is because that is the language that is used in the education system in Haiti. Their dominant language is Kreyol (or Creole), which we have been told is not too difficult to learn if we already have a good grasp on French! Let’s just hope that Ryan and I are capable of catching onto a foreign language quickly!

We are so incredibly excited for this summer. On the other hand, it makes me sad to think about all of the things we will miss back home while we are gone. I guess this will give us a glimpse into what it will be like moving away long-term. But we are really going to miss our family and friends!

I have no clue how to use a blog, but I intend to update it this summer to let our friends and family know what we have been up to. J

-Cheyenne