Other Things We Do On Guam

Most everyone who reads this blog knows that Joyce and I do teaching, ministry and administration at Pacific Islands University. I spend a lot of words here talking about the basic duties of those jobs. There are a few things we do (work and fun and lot of times both of those together) that I don't write about much so I thought I would talk about those activities a little bit today.

Occasionally we run errands for the school. Joyce does this one a little more often than I do. She made the bank run today. The school is a few miles away from the main downtown area so all of us occasionally make runs to do something. Saturday since we were downtown anyway we went to the Continental office to pay for tickets for our librarians to go to a conference to Chuuk. We took two of our students, Julie and Inca with us. We ended up waiting in line for about an hour to make the payment, but as you can see from the pictures the ladies' made good use of the time by posing for pictures.

We also occasionally get to meet up with old friends. Guam seems to be a cross-roads for travel and people we don't expect to see come through and give us a call. Last week we met up with Matt Garman. Matt was the youth leader at Yigo Baptist back in the mid-90's and had our Matt and Michael in his youth group. It was great to see him and get caught up on what had happened in the last 12-15 years. Matt, you look exactly the same as you did then!

Of course one of our favorite duties is babysitting the grand-kids. In fact we are doing it tonight. Having Mike and his family back on Guam this year has been great and it is really nice for me to have the kids around as an occasionally needed diversion from school business. Titus, Courage and I played a little tackle football in the living room and tonight while I was feeding Serenity, she gave me the big smile she usually only gives to Joyce. No matter what else has happened earlier that makes for a great day.