Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Safari :D the pics
Hipppoooooooss! they ran around our tens all night long....
to did Pumba the worthog. ew
CHOP CHOP CHOP we could have died Kerwin!
WATER BUFfaLO
My favorate animal! good thing they arnt a pain in the neck <-- pun
THESE birds are amazing! those are rocks with colorful birds
pretty pretty
CHOMP CHOMP CHOMP
WATER BUFfaLO
My favorate animal! good thing they arnt a pain in the neck <-- pun
THESE birds are amazing! those are rocks with colorful birds
pretty pretty
CHOMP CHOMP CHOMP
on the boat part ^
AFRICAN WEDDING
Africa wedding dances
more of them
our African Gomaz dresses for the wedding. HAWT
The dowry to bribe the bride :D
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
joy to the world its december!!
I can't believe it's december! In 15 days exactly I'll be back in vacationland! Time has gone by so fast, but I'm definitely ready to come home....... Mainly for food purposes, but I mean I miss you guys a ton too =]
Last weekend we went on the safari and it was sooooooo cool! We camped at the safari like 'headquarters, site place' and had these super sketchy tents our coordinators gave us.....wellllllllllllllllllll the one I was in was a 3 man tent that MIGHT have fit 3 small children in it.....possibly. there were three of us crammed in there, my head and feet touched both ends, the zipper on the bottom didn't zip so we had to safety pin it shut........wart hogs and large hippos were running around us all night. Needless to say it was an interesting experience. Only 9 of us girls went so it was great to be away from the pesty boys. The first day was the day after thanksgiving and I was still ridiculously sick so it wasn't that great, but still awesome. We drove for 8 hours to get there and then had to drive through the jungles and monkeys, baboons, and other crazy small animals for a few hours. We went to Murchinson falls, a HUGE water fall on the Nile. It was probably the most gorgeous thing I've seen in my life. I'll get the pics on facebook later. word. that day was just driving around and seeing sweet sights, then when we got back to the campsite we just ate and milled around. Day two we woke up at the crack of dawn and took a ferry across the Nile and started the real SAFARI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It looked just like a movie, crazy rolling plains full of prancing antelopes and giraffes ( My new FAVORITE animal!), and water buffalos. And like a million other things! sooooooo it went like that for a good hour. We were in a safari van thing with a net bucket on top to sit on and the roof raised up so we could poke our heads out like a jeep or sit on the back. It was pretty much wild. At first it took a while to see hippos and monkeys and giraffes and other stuff but then they just were EVERYWHERE!it was a solid three hours before we saw our first elephant. we couldn't find one ANYWHere and were getting pretty cranky, but then we met another jeep of people and they directed us to some so naturally our driver got super psyched, and 3 of us were in this tiny little basket on the top and he just took off driving at least 50 mph on crazy safari dirt roads! our bodies are covered with bruises from being slammed around, I was pretty sure we were going to die, but we didn't! that was our first elephant, then there were a few more. the afternoon was a boat tour...... I assumed this would be dumb...... BUT It was craaaaaaaaaaazy. Within two minutes we saw thirty elephants, a million and ten hippos, and every other creature under the sun. CROCODILES ARE SO HUGE ON THE NILE. OH. My. WORd.
So yea. go on a safari.
This week has been dapper. I'm starting to heal and on a super strict diet , but feeling wayyyyyyy bettter so thanks for the prayers team!
Yesterday was the last day of november.......... We went to a cultural dance in the city and then got to stay on campus. anddddd becuase it was the last day of NOVEMBEr- at midnight I FINALLy got to shave my legs. hallllllllllllllleluijah. all of us made a pact not to, and last night at midnight it was the biggest celebration ever. We got ice cream and soda's , watched a little lion king and wellllll shaved our little legs. I've never been so proud of myself. 31 days without shaving. I have no idea where I got the strength to last that long!
Today we are finishing up our final papers. I'm praying I find my flash drive, it has a few papers I wrote and on my way to print them it dissapeared. Rrrrr. someday I'll be responsible.
This afternoon a couple friends and I are sneaking off to our coordinators house to make brownies, banana pancakes, and watch walk the line. Perfect day? yes. especially now that our legs are hairy. . .. . I think that fact just makes our lives a million times better.
This weekend is our last weekend home, I rarely stay home on the weekend cause it's usually pretty awkward and I like to run away from those situations sooooooooooo I believe on saturday we are going to the garden. This will be ummmm awful? The last time this happened I had blisters the size of craters in my hands for weeks. Then sunday we are going to my grandmothers? I'm praying its not super awkward. I'm pretty sure they are only taking me so that she can see a white person..............it might be great tho. I just have to keep the expectations low so when its great i'm super happpy=] who knows. we probably won't even make it there. plans here change faster than anything i've seen in my life. Including plans at the pelkey house!
Next week we are planning a christmas white elephant party after the market day........plan- go to market, and find the worst thing you have ever seen. This will be extremely interesting. Thursday we have our farewell banquet where we get to wear great clothes ( IF you look at pics on facebook right now there are a few of me and kelsey in our traditional apparel at a wedding introduction party) They are sooooooooooo ugly. so ugly. But I love them! THennnnnnnnnnnnnnn saturday we leave for a few days of 'debrief'.' then we ball our little eyes out because we don't remember what life is like when we aren't with each other for literally every second of everyday. That part might be miserable, but I sure can't wait to come home. Expect a large fluff-a-nutter, rice krispie square, no bake, brownie party over break! =] ( Mom you're invited=] )
tilllllllllllll then . peace. out. cub.scout.
Last weekend we went on the safari and it was sooooooo cool! We camped at the safari like 'headquarters, site place' and had these super sketchy tents our coordinators gave us.....wellllllllllllllllllll the one I was in was a 3 man tent that MIGHT have fit 3 small children in it.....possibly. there were three of us crammed in there, my head and feet touched both ends, the zipper on the bottom didn't zip so we had to safety pin it shut........wart hogs and large hippos were running around us all night. Needless to say it was an interesting experience. Only 9 of us girls went so it was great to be away from the pesty boys. The first day was the day after thanksgiving and I was still ridiculously sick so it wasn't that great, but still awesome. We drove for 8 hours to get there and then had to drive through the jungles and monkeys, baboons, and other crazy small animals for a few hours. We went to Murchinson falls, a HUGE water fall on the Nile. It was probably the most gorgeous thing I've seen in my life. I'll get the pics on facebook later. word. that day was just driving around and seeing sweet sights, then when we got back to the campsite we just ate and milled around. Day two we woke up at the crack of dawn and took a ferry across the Nile and started the real SAFARI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It looked just like a movie, crazy rolling plains full of prancing antelopes and giraffes ( My new FAVORITE animal!), and water buffalos. And like a million other things! sooooooo it went like that for a good hour. We were in a safari van thing with a net bucket on top to sit on and the roof raised up so we could poke our heads out like a jeep or sit on the back. It was pretty much wild. At first it took a while to see hippos and monkeys and giraffes and other stuff but then they just were EVERYWHERE!it was a solid three hours before we saw our first elephant. we couldn't find one ANYWHere and were getting pretty cranky, but then we met another jeep of people and they directed us to some so naturally our driver got super psyched, and 3 of us were in this tiny little basket on the top and he just took off driving at least 50 mph on crazy safari dirt roads! our bodies are covered with bruises from being slammed around, I was pretty sure we were going to die, but we didn't! that was our first elephant, then there were a few more. the afternoon was a boat tour...... I assumed this would be dumb...... BUT It was craaaaaaaaaaazy. Within two minutes we saw thirty elephants, a million and ten hippos, and every other creature under the sun. CROCODILES ARE SO HUGE ON THE NILE. OH. My. WORd.
So yea. go on a safari.
This week has been dapper. I'm starting to heal and on a super strict diet , but feeling wayyyyyyy bettter so thanks for the prayers team!
Yesterday was the last day of november.......... We went to a cultural dance in the city and then got to stay on campus. anddddd becuase it was the last day of NOVEMBEr- at midnight I FINALLy got to shave my legs. hallllllllllllllleluijah. all of us made a pact not to, and last night at midnight it was the biggest celebration ever. We got ice cream and soda's , watched a little lion king and wellllll shaved our little legs. I've never been so proud of myself. 31 days without shaving. I have no idea where I got the strength to last that long!
Today we are finishing up our final papers. I'm praying I find my flash drive, it has a few papers I wrote and on my way to print them it dissapeared. Rrrrr. someday I'll be responsible.
This afternoon a couple friends and I are sneaking off to our coordinators house to make brownies, banana pancakes, and watch walk the line. Perfect day? yes. especially now that our legs are hairy. . .. . I think that fact just makes our lives a million times better.
This weekend is our last weekend home, I rarely stay home on the weekend cause it's usually pretty awkward and I like to run away from those situations sooooooooooo I believe on saturday we are going to the garden. This will be ummmm awful? The last time this happened I had blisters the size of craters in my hands for weeks. Then sunday we are going to my grandmothers? I'm praying its not super awkward. I'm pretty sure they are only taking me so that she can see a white person..............it might be great tho. I just have to keep the expectations low so when its great i'm super happpy=] who knows. we probably won't even make it there. plans here change faster than anything i've seen in my life. Including plans at the pelkey house!
Next week we are planning a christmas white elephant party after the market day........plan- go to market, and find the worst thing you have ever seen. This will be extremely interesting. Thursday we have our farewell banquet where we get to wear great clothes ( IF you look at pics on facebook right now there are a few of me and kelsey in our traditional apparel at a wedding introduction party) They are sooooooooooo ugly. so ugly. But I love them! THennnnnnnnnnnnnnn saturday we leave for a few days of 'debrief'.' then we ball our little eyes out because we don't remember what life is like when we aren't with each other for literally every second of everyday. That part might be miserable, but I sure can't wait to come home. Expect a large fluff-a-nutter, rice krispie square, no bake, brownie party over break! =] ( Mom you're invited=] )
tilllllllllllll then . peace. out. cub.scout.
Monday, November 21, 2011
WEll. I'm in a good mood. =] walked to school today, had the vibe my one and only class would be cancelled and guess whaaaaaaaaat. Vwaaaaallah! Cancelled! Bam. Instant happy day.
This past weekend we went on a 6 hour road trip to Lira which is in the North. We usually get about ----zero information about what we are doing before we go so we just jump on a horribly crammed bus and wait. Driving here is rather bizarre as far as I'm concerned. You can literally drive for hours seeing nothing but run down building in desperate need of repainting, people swarmed everywhere some on bikes, bodas (motorcycles), carrying live chickens around by their feet, sleeping under trees, sitting in shops, a half a cow covered with thousands of hungry germy bugs hanging from the ceiling of a small shack, aka the 'butcher shop'. This literally goes on for hours, shop after shop after shop selling the same 20 items. Then all of a sudden BAM. It switches to junglish tree's and forests with vines and crazy bushes everywhere....then it goes back to shops...then to 'fields' of weird grasses and plants that must have been taken straight out of a book by Dr. Suess. It's so weird. Then I looked and swore I was on Crack because I saw this huge Monkey sitting in a tree right over the road, but it was one with like no butt?? sooo . naturally I flipped out, my friend told me I was crazy. Nope. within two minutes everyone started screaming BABOONS Baboons! YEp a whole bunch of them alllll over the main road! That's when I confirmed that this weekend a Safari WIll happen =]
I had barely eaten a thing since monday because I was so sick, but when we got there we stopped at an American cafe I couldn't deny myself the biggest coffee milkshakes and pizza. It was like a solid hour of heaven! We stayed at a guest house, which is what africa uses instead of hotels. watched movies all night and talked. It was a grand old time until Naturally my body was still rejecting anything I fed it sooooooo I spent the next day and a half ridiculously sick. So i missed all of the orphanages and stuff and slept for a solid day and a half and then got back on the 6 hr bus ride home. Yes. Overall an interesting weekend.
Yesterday I finally started feeling better and ate for the first time so thanks for the prayers =] I'm healing.
Time is really flying by, we only have 23 days left until we land in JFK and I run straight to mcdonalds and buy them out of apple pies! It's pretty bitter sweet because I'm super ready to be away from this crazy foreign land, but at the same time I'm really going to miss the people. Other than after 7 at night when I go home we are right in each others face all day, I can't really imagine not being together anymore, but that's okay, i'll just have to plan more road trips.
This week is pretty crazy busy. We have all of our final papers and projects and presentations. Today I go to Noah's ark and play with the kids, tomorrow I'm supposed to go to the city to do interviews with an organization for a presentation, thursday morning back to Noah's ark, thursday afternoon is spent baking pumpkin pie and having thanksgiving! FRIDAY+Saturday+ SUNDAY = SAFARI.
For thanksgiving all of the American families here on campus have a big feast, the students are in charge of desert. We play a game of football and wellll EAT.
sweeeeet.
Safari fridayyyy. freaking sweet. Can't wait. just girls. We're leaving the boys behind. yesssa.
then one more week of being here. then one week of debrief. then we're. home. home. home. say whaaaaat
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
hi this is my five minute update=]
My bad, I tried to update this yesterday, right before I could push post I got super sick and I don't know what happened but it all just disappeared apparently.
whats new in Africa?
The past two days my body has hated me, I think this may or may not have had something to do with the super sketchy beef mom fed me Sunday night. I'm officially a declared vegetarian until December 15h! Never ever thought that would happen, but for some reason eating beef that is still connected to like spines and sketchy bones creeps me out wayyyyyy to much.
consequently I became quite death like and had to stay on campus all last night yayyyy. not. however I did get to skip a bunch of classes ! YAY.
Today I went to Sseko a shoe store in Kampala? They started making these super cool sandals 3 years ago....four woman hanging out sewing shoes under a mango tree, some American spotted them, loved them, its a sweet company now. Still super small operation, but such a cool business. Each person who works there is employed for 9months as soon as they are out of an area highschool. They are chosen if they are super responsible, driven, and want to go to university. The business hires them to teach them skills and give them money for school....check them out online...http://shop.ssekodesigns.com/home.php?cat=249 . super boss. mom I bought my self some ..you can give them to me for christmas =]
this past weekend was spent at a 'introduction' this is an event that occurs before a couple is married. A 10 hour long event in the boiling sun listening to people speak a different language .... It is when the bride introduces the husband to her family...sooo many details and so weird..I went with my friend Kelsey and we had to wear these crazy dresses with HUGE puff sleeves called Gomez...... I'm sure she'll put up our pictures soonnnnnn. check Facebook. they were so ugly. ummmmm... so the weddings here include dowry- the price for the bride...so yes there was half a cow leg there.... great. =]
k i have papers to write
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