Thursday, November 1, 2007

September 16, 2007









This weekend was really fun!!! I saw my first elephants and my first hippos! The place where we went is beautiful! You wouldn’t believe how nice it was, yet simple too. The house had screen instead of walls, and a straw roof. But it was a huge house. They had curtains inside so it was private too. It’s right on the river. You can hear the hippos grunting and stuff. The bathroom is outside and only has walls, no roof. The monkeys can come and spy on you when you take a shower!

We walked to the building site for an orphanage and like, 50 kids from the villages followed us. I felt like a celebrity. We slept in a screen tent that you could see through. So we could see the stars. It was cool. A little scary though. Hein, the man whose house it was, was putting on an evangelistic series, so us SMs sang a song for them on Friday night. Also we sang two more on Sabbath.

I can’t believe we have only been here for 2 ½ weeks. It feels like forever. I haven’t showered in two whole days. It’s so dusty here that when you do shower, its like you are washing your tan off. It’s liberating to be dirty and have no one care. I want to stay here forever. What do you think of that?

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