June 3

I'm writing this as the third funeral procession this past week passes
by Light of Hope. Choirs were singing from it. I only mention this
because it's cruel but yet true reality that while children can be
playing over here alongside the bench I'm writing on over here in
front of Light of Hope, their friends on the block down the street
are weeping over another lost relative.

Today has been a pretty uneventful day, although it was the third time
I was served caterpillars with enshima. For those who don't know
enshima is a white paste made from ground up maize and looks like mash
potatoes but is much thicker (Bianca's definition), and you eat it
with your hands. Bianca couldn't eat the fried catepillars, while I
winced trying to eat half of one.  On a side note our diet here
actually is pretty helpful. Some meals all we get is simply water,
vegetables and enshima. Almost just like Daniel and his friends while
they were in Babylon.

On a side note we also recently started a newsletter with Nicholas and
Joseph's help recently. With my past journalism skills, Bianca and I
have been helping the organization design certain newsletters for the
organization as to better inform the community about LOH. I guess
those journalism weeks spent in northwestern were good for something!