On Thursday, we had a big party for all of these ESL courses to celebrate the end of the winter term. The term went great and I'm probably going to help out again next year. Here, you can see my entire class holding up their certificates.










Today, we had a big Christmas party for all of the SIM missionaries and staff in Ouagadougou. Ben, my roommate, loves Christmas... so a few weeks ago, we planned on surprising everyone at the party by inviting Santa Clause :P As you can see, the costume was modeled after the Grinch (from The Grinch Who Stole Christmas). It was awesome - he handed out candies to the kids and everyone just loved it. What we're planning to do this week is to go all over the community on my motorbike and hand out candies to all the kids on the streets (with him in his Père Noël suit).