A few weeks ago I asked a Bolivian classmate of mine if the rain was gone for good. "No," he replied, "it will rain one more time and when it does it will mark the beginning of winter and the true dry season. Sure enough, after a month of blue skies, on Thursday it rained. And with the rain the seasons changed, not just in the weather but in many other ways for us too. Thursday was the last day of school at Calvert, and then yesterday John and Jenny headed back to the States for the summer. Ann spent most of today taking back the house now that our housemates are gone and cleaning like mad. This weekend our church is doing an "evangelistic campaigne" and next week we will have to kick youth retreat planning into high gear. Katie should be going home as well in a week or two and hopefully then we will have a few days to ourselves before the family comes to visit.

I'm happy and excited for Ann that she actually gets a real summer break, no jobs, so she can do stuff that she has wanted to do here and not had the time. I, on the other hand, am going to be working harder than I ever have now that I have a thesis to write and I have classes and homework as well. But even though I'll be working it will be different, and kinda nice, to have Ann around the house.

I'm starting to doubt this "city of eternal spring" stuff here though. It still gets hot during the day, but boy is it cold at night. The paper says that this week it may get down around freezing at night. It makes going out for the day quite inconvinient when you have to wear a sweater when you leave in the morning and then end up carrying it around and sweating all afternoon.

Our computer also got kinda fixed, at least for now, so we can skype and blog again, and perhaps have more time to do it now too. I hope to keep updates on the thesis progress and my thoughts and things I learn on the way. But for now, I have to go and drive the moto around the neighborhood while somebody on the back megaphones our church's invitation to the service tonight on the soccer field.