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Wow, it has been so long since I have written. I almost feel like a new person! I am right now living in a medium sized village in Kenya. so REALLY bumpy dirt roads and random roads side stands with lots of people walking has become my life. It is so hard to describe what life is like here...but I hope everyone comes to Africa at some point to check it all out.
We are staying on a theological campus, so we have made some good friends here already. The single girls were religated to the dorms!! So I have many interesting stories of random naked people showering in the middle of the bathroom and slamming doors at all hours of the night. It has been an adventure. But I am blessed to wake up each morning to about 10 girls singing songs as they shower and do their laundry for the day. Quite different than American dorms, since everyone here (it seems) has an amazing voice!
There has been a long days of learning and taking tons of notes. We have been learning about African worldview, and why culture is the the way it is. Also, they told us a lot of "dos" and "don'ts". So hopefully we won't make too many mistakes. With all the information i have been given in the past two weeks, I feel more overloaded than prepared, but it will work out.
God has really blessed us with the opportunity to get to know so many other missionaries that will be working all over Africa. That is the best part. Each evening is spent hanging out, talking, playing card games, or maybe watching a movie. (since there is no TV, limited internet, and no place to go we are forced to interact).
Two nights ago we lost electricity for a while. so we all started singing praise songs. It was so dark, but awesome to sit and sing together. Two girls and I sat and looked at the stars. What an amazing sky. It looks so different from the sky at home. The stars are all in different places and most of the constellations that I am used to, you can't even see.
There is so much to tell, but only a bit of time. I will try to write more here, there are some good transportation stories. to get to town you either take a bouda bouda (bike with a seat on the back) or a tuk tuk (a three wheeled motorcycle thing). There always seems to be too many people or not enough space so we squeeze everyone in. One time we took a tuk tuk back in from town and put 4 people on this little seat that really should have 2!! It was a tight fit, especially since the tuk tuk was on empty and kept almost dying when we were idling. But we made it (Praise God).
I am settling into life here, but really excited to head towards Dar es Salaam! I can't wait to get there (especially to some warm weather). Surprisingly, it is very cold here. Long trousers (we can't say pants cuz that means underwear) and sweater weather. Unfortunately, I only brought skirts and tshirts.....so i have been cold. But its fine to wear the same jacket everyday here and thats what I do.
Ask me any questions if you have them, so I can tell you a bit more about what life is like.
We are staying on a theological campus, so we have made some good friends here already. The single girls were religated to the dorms!! So I have many interesting stories of random naked people showering in the middle of the bathroom and slamming doors at all hours of the night. It has been an adventure. But I am blessed to wake up each morning to about 10 girls singing songs as they shower and do their laundry for the day. Quite different than American dorms, since everyone here (it seems) has an amazing voice!
There has been a long days of learning and taking tons of notes. We have been learning about African worldview, and why culture is the the way it is. Also, they told us a lot of "dos" and "don'ts". So hopefully we won't make too many mistakes. With all the information i have been given in the past two weeks, I feel more overloaded than prepared, but it will work out.
God has really blessed us with the opportunity to get to know so many other missionaries that will be working all over Africa. That is the best part. Each evening is spent hanging out, talking, playing card games, or maybe watching a movie. (since there is no TV, limited internet, and no place to go we are forced to interact).
Two nights ago we lost electricity for a while. so we all started singing praise songs. It was so dark, but awesome to sit and sing together. Two girls and I sat and looked at the stars. What an amazing sky. It looks so different from the sky at home. The stars are all in different places and most of the constellations that I am used to, you can't even see.
There is so much to tell, but only a bit of time. I will try to write more here, there are some good transportation stories. to get to town you either take a bouda bouda (bike with a seat on the back) or a tuk tuk (a three wheeled motorcycle thing). There always seems to be too many people or not enough space so we squeeze everyone in. One time we took a tuk tuk back in from town and put 4 people on this little seat that really should have 2!! It was a tight fit, especially since the tuk tuk was on empty and kept almost dying when we were idling. But we made it (Praise God).
I am settling into life here, but really excited to head towards Dar es Salaam! I can't wait to get there (especially to some warm weather). Surprisingly, it is very cold here. Long trousers (we can't say pants cuz that means underwear) and sweater weather. Unfortunately, I only brought skirts and tshirts.....so i have been cold. But its fine to wear the same jacket everyday here and thats what I do.
Ask me any questions if you have them, so I can tell you a bit more about what life is like.
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