Family Life

I had to put this movie star photo of Mrs. Flude in -



Libby, Gracey and Esther


Emma and Lib

Lib, Gracey and Liddy


Lib, Emma and Gracey




Libby, Gracey and some neighbor children



Libby and Gracey
Libby, barefoot in the yard... I hope there are no snakes around!!

Videos

Libby and Gracey mud wrestling...


View from the roof...



Lightning storm... (dark, but keep watching)




Hedgehog...

More neighbors

In Chad

These pictures speak for themselves. I guess they have to since she isn't here to tell me anything about them!

First pictures from Libby

These are from her layover in Paris before she got to Chad and some of the group she traveled with.

What a mess!

Hey everyone, just thought I'd drop an update of my day to you all. Well, today Grace, Mrs Flude, Emma and I were at the neighbors house visiting and drinking some Madedee (a Chadian milet drink) for a couple hours. After a while of sitting in the hot dry sun, we decided it was time to take off.
Before going inside the house we wanted to go say hi to an elder neighbor lady across the street. As we came up to her hut, we all heard yelling and turned to see two young boys (around 13 or 14) stuck in the mud beating thier horse trying to get a huge wagon of bricks unstuck! After a long while of whipping and beating the horse nearly to the point where it was about to buckle, they decided to start throwing bricks at the poor animal! Grace Mrs Flude and I were absolutely horrified and there was no way we were going to just stand there and watch. SO Grace and I decided it was time to step in.
Whitnessing all the neighbors just standing around laughing at the two boys, not even helping them we'd had enough. As Grace ran home fast to grab Payton, I kicked my shoes off and headed over to where the boys were. As soon as I started slipping and sloshing through the mud the entire neighborhood and all the Chadians standing around started clapping and roaring with laughter, and a croud gathered to watch. They couldnt believe what they were seeing! I didn't care. They eventually stopped laughing when they saw I didn't care at all.
Soon after I reached the boys Grace came running over to help and we started yelling at the boys to stop hitting the horse because it had finally colapsed. The looks on thier faces were absolutely priceless. They had just been publically humiliated by two white American girls in front of everyone lol. They immediatly stopped.
A couple minutes later all the little Chadian children also started pitching in to help to get the horse out of the mud, while the older kids were yelling at us to stop helping and that it was bad. We didn't care. The horse finally got out, and after about fifteen minutes of repliling bricks back on the wagon, the job was finished. While one of the boys road off to take the horse home, the other just kept saying thank you over and over again.
Covered in mud, Grace and I went to quickly take a shower. We didn't want worms. Even though it was a smelly mess, it was well worth it. Praise the Lord for his prompting spirit=)









Oh and by the way, thank you mom for redoing this blog page for me! Love you lots=)

-Libby Derouin.

I't been too long!

Hey everyone, I'm so sorry it has taken me so long to give you all another update! I don't have much time to write, so I'll just say a few things. Things here have been great for me. Over the past few weeks alot has happend but I don't have enough credit to give you the whole sha-bang (I really want to though). First off, my Camarounian visa application was excepted and I finally got that out of the way. Next, the Flude fam and I will soon be starting an Arabic language learning class which I'm insanely stoked for! They will have a teacher come to the house four days a week and teach us little by little.
Life outside with the neighbors has also been great, another interesting thing I've learned is that the young girls like to take their tarha's (head coverings) and rub the rough edges against thier forheads until it bleeds, then they pick away the scabs until it leaves a scar. They believe it's a symbol of beauty. I think it's kind of sad. Also, the other day Mrs Flude Grace and I were out visiting with one of the neighbor ladies and while we were sitting down I noticed she was feeding all the kids this gross looking rice stuff and I thought to myself, "pleas don't offer us any...Oh my word" And sure enough she hands over us a big bowl of what they call Esh...It's an honor for them to share with us so we, being polite neighbors have to eat it. It was rice with goat sauce and braided goat guts. I'm not even joking. It wasn't until after I put a bite of rice in my mouth and started chewin down on bones and sand that I found out what the meat was. I wasn't able to stomach it, so I gagged quietly inside my cup. I decided I was finished. So I told them I was full lol! That was by far my most enjoyable food experience here so far.
I'm out of time though, I have so much more to write about, but I will have to do that another time, hopefully sooner. Thank you all for your prayers and support it means so much to me. I'm doing very well and so is the family. Hope all is well up there with everyone too! Love you all and miss you guys. Bye=)




-Libby.