Packing

   

When we arrived at the house in which we would be staying for furlough, we didn’t have quite as much furniture as we needed. Dad needed a desk to do his work and my sisters needed a dresser. Dad and I took a couple days and drove around, looking for these items.

A few weeks or so before our trip back, we needed to get these things out of the house and into storage along with several other items. Essentially, we had three ‘piles.’ One was for things we would be bringing back to Cameroon, one was for things that would be going into the storage shed, and the last was for things that we would donate to our Christian school's senior mission trip yard sale.

Over the last few weeks, we packed, stored and gave away our possessions. My sister’s dresser that I mentioned earlier was up a flight of stairs so it was a big job for Dad and I to get it downstairs, into the van then making a place for it in the storage shed with some rearranging. Other items we needed to get into the shed were; Dad’s desk, a few mattresses and a vacuum cleaner.

We also needed to pack. We put clothes into the yard sale pile that were too small and used the rest of the clothes as cushions for the more breakable items such as cameras and glass stuff. We managed to finish packing the morning we were to leave after staying up late doing so the night before. (Not us but our parents.) We packed all the luggage in the church bus and a member of our church drove us down and helped us get all the stuff out of the bus. We tearfully waved goodbye and headed into the airport.

-Drew