Tad's Life

It's midnight and the power finally came back on. I had been sleeping fitfully for an hour. Getting up to turn off lights and put things in the fridge must have flipped on some switch in me.

I'm awake.

Fortunately, Jane and I are going with the Dakar Academy staff tomorrow (er, today) for a couple days of R&R at Aldiana. I'll sleep then. Jonathan will be at the McComb dorm with JJ and the Mulay boys, watched over by the Fincks. The boys will have a blast. I don't know how Vern and Jan will hold up!

On the Phare blog site you can see my electrical handiwork. These power outages are getting nutty. We've looked into a generator big enough for the Phare. I hope it happens!

We cancelled our long range planning committee meeting this afternoon. Vern was ill. The others were up to their elbows in boxes of stuff. The DA container finally came!! It didn’t impact Jane much, but many teachers had been waiting since the beginning of school for textbooks or special supplies. This is a common experience at DA, but every year the new set of folks involved swears that they have figured out how to get the shipment here in early August. Rarely do they succeed!

At that meeting we cancelled, we were going to talk about things like how big DA might actually get to be. I thought you might like to see the data from the last few years.

If you look closely, you’ll see that the elementary grades have leveled off after the influx from Abidjan in 04-05. And so has the middle school. The high school grades continue to grow, even though the big jump was when ICA came up in 02-03. Clear to you what will happen in the next 10 years? No. Nor to me!