Friday, August 31, 2012

UCBC Graduation 2012

Enjoy a few of our photos from this year's graduation ceremony!

Ready to leave home and go to the graduation ceremony

Students ready for the ceremony to begin!

On the way down to the ceremony - students were so happy!!

Family waiting for the graduates to arrive

Music with Mama Hulda as a prelude

Noé on the keyboard

The graduates getting closer to the stage!

Guitarists


Serious (or anxious?)graduates

Applied Science students waiting to receive their diplomas. 

The Rector and leaders handing out the diplomas

Graduates celebrating (during the ceremony) with friends and family

Lots of flowers, photos, and laughter!

Noé and Bethany - during the ceremony

A proud new graduate!

Young family members enjoying the celebration with a cold Coke!

Some of the new grads with President, Dr. David Kasali

A young son looking hungrily for the food - where is it?!

At the reception with  Noé's Mama

A great photo opp outside the Lyn Lusi Welcome Center at UCBC


Congratulations to all of the UCBC Graduates!! We are so proud of you! :) 

Thursday, July 26, 2012

Campus Frenzy


It is two days before Graduation and the campus is in a frenzy. 

Most students have finished up exams. But a few have one this morning.

The library has been successfully and totally moved from the computer lab. We now have a library with book shelves holding hundreds of books, tables to study at and even a few couches and comfy chairs to read in. It’s a proper library.
Irene and Jerlas after presenting her final project (very well)!

Candidates for graduation have presented their final papers, publicly defended them, and are now awaiting results to find out if they will graduate on Saturday. (see photo on the right)

Visitors have been steadily arriving since Monday. Even more will come tomorrow.

The stage is getting set up, as are the tents for spectators to sit under during the graduation ceremony. Chairs and parking and decorations are all being prepared. The campus is changing before our eyes!
He occasionally uses a brush to "cut in," but the painter
does not protect the space around him, like the floors! 
Our cleaning crew will have a bit more work today :)

Final grades are being submitted (or calculated!) by the teaching staff – hopefully providing all of the grades and details for the 2nd semester.

The diploma _____ (covers? books? folders? what are they called?) are here, with UCBC’s logo on the front – they look wonderful.

The grass – all of the grass – is being cut today. Thankfully not by hand, or with the weed whacker (there must be a real name for that!), but with a small push mower. It is gas-powered, so even though it will take most of the day to finish the lawn, at least it won’t take 3 days and 10 people!
Painting outside of the Welcome Center

The walls in the Academic Building are getting a fresh coat of paint... Dad, you might not be so impressed with the technique - but hopefully it will look great when the work is finished! The outside of the Welcome Center is also getting a make-over. (see photos on the right)

The CI-UCBC Board meeting started yesterday and goes until tomorrow. It is great re-connecting with members of the board and getting to know some of them a bit better.

Noé presented about the Work Program yesterday in the Board Meeting. He talked about the progress of the Program and some of the challenges that he’s faced… And he put together a wonderful presentation showing the changes on the UCBC campus, over the past four years. It’s remarkable to see.

UCBC is getting ready for graduation! 
Hopefully we’ll be able to upload the presentation so you can see the photos, soon!

Until then, it’s back to work :)

Monday, July 16, 2012

This is why...

...I no longer accept anyone's flash drives to be used in my computer... Or give out my own drives either!

Thankfully, this message did not come up on my computer.

But unfortunately, it is on another computer! Yikes - about 30 viruses? No thank you.

Monday, July 9, 2012

100 days...

... Since this:

Yay for milestones! :) Thank you Lord!

Thursday, July 5, 2012

UCBC's 1st Annual Tree Day!


June 13th, 2012 - one of my favorite days at UCBC! 

Please check out the update from Congo Initiative on Tree Day here at UCBC - The Tree Planting Project.
(The one that I'd written got lost when my computer re-started itself to install updates... [Click here to read a tiny bit more] So check out what Congo Initiative wrote instead!)

I'm proud of Noé for all of the work he put into organizing this special day! It was a great celebration of the gift we have received, in our 90+ acres of land; a celebration of the nature and creativity of God - and it was enjoyed by the whole UCBC community. 

Enjoy the photos, dear ones! 

















Tuesday, July 3, 2012

June Update



Dear Friends,

The latest update (and the first one in a while) is completed and ready for you!

June 2012 Report

Please read it, share it, and enjoy it!

With love,
Bethany and Noé

Friday, June 29, 2012

Trees and rats

Noé and I after planting his tree on campus (mine was already
planted - more photos to come, hopefully soon!)
I had written a full update and before publishing it (I was waiting for some photos to upload), I went to chapel and while there... My computer installed updates and restarted. My update was totally lost. So since then, I haven't had the words / focus to try to re-write it... But in the mean time, for now, here is a photo of that day, the UCBC's first annual tree day.









Also... Watch out for the rodents at UCBC!!
This is what the mice (rats???) did to our container, which was
closed tightly, but forgotten at UCBC overnight... Yikes.



Saturday, June 16, 2012

Homegrown peanuts

We recently harvested a crop of peanuts that we planted in our garden... It was a lot of work, but also a lot of fun! 

We even visited it with the family when they were here in March / April! 

I can't find the photo of us in the garden with the family... So instead here are some with us in the house, after we visited the garden - and worked to shell the peanuts which we sent back to the States with Mom! :)



(I'm also having problems moving these photos, hence their placement here, at the beginning of this post!)


Inside our home Noé, Bethany, Nathan, Hannah, Dad, Sarah, Mom

See how much fun everyone had?!

Nathan, Dad, Luke, Sarah, Hannah & Mom


Mom and Noé with the first amount of fully shelled and ready to roast peanuts! We love you Mom. 

And now, on to the photos of the garden! 

Baby peanut plants


In our field :)
The peanuts were ready to be harvested about one week before our wedding... So the day before Noé and I traveled to meet the family in Uganda, we harvested the peanuts!

Harvest day!

Our helpers. These boys saw that we were harvesting and wanted to help remove the peanuts from the plants... We decided to give them a little money for their help, but maybe more importantly, they got to take peanuts home! 

Aselme and Victor hard at work

Pulling up the peanut plants

Pulling the peanuts off of the plants

It was good to be part of the full process! 
 
That is a lot of peanuts!!

We were so excited!

After harvesting the peanuts, we had to let them dry out in the sun for a few days before they could be shelled.
A few weeks after the wedding, we were finally able to start shelling the peanuts... Working with friends and family made the work easier. 
Shelling peanuts at home

Enjoying the work with family!

The fruits of the laborer's hands

Nothing better than eating the food that you planted, took care of, harvested and cooked! (Please pay no attention to the mayo in the background!)

Freshly roasted and salted peanuts!
We thank God for the abundant crop of peanuts that we harvested! Although they are now long gone, we happily ate the 6+ kilos of peanuts while they lasted! 

Thursday, June 14, 2012

Fresh Veggies

Some of the fresh vegetables that Noé brought home the other day:


They made for a yummy meal last night... 


But we were all so hungry that a photo of the cooked veggies was forgotten. :)

Friday, June 8, 2012

Future UCBC students



They visited UCBC this morning and went on a tour of the campus, visiting classrooms and staff. It was a pleasure to have these future students with us today!