African Paradis

For over a year we have been talking about going camping, like actual  camping with the young adults we work with. Well it finally happened, and as any good camping trip goes there were some problems which makes a stupid story. Here is the stupid story followed by some lovely pictures courtesy of Clayton who is one of those people who likes to take pictures. The day started warm and sunny, the man who had planned the entire camp was about 16 hours away and had left us with a rough mental map of the way things were supposed to go down. There was just one thing that we forgot to factor... we were going camping. We were waiting at the starting location for some laides that we were going to give a ride to, they were intended to arrive at 2:00 so we could start our 3 hour trip. Unfortunately they did not arrive until 3:30pm already setting us back an hour and a half and putting us in danger of hitting rush hour traffic the Friday before a long weekend. ...

The students were on vacation last week and there wasn't a ton to do around the office so we went to an amusement park. Because amusement parks are not as popular here as they are in the U.S. and because we went on a thursday there were almost no lines. We waited for maybe 15 minutes tops and went on all the working rides multiple times! Roller Coasters are fun

Mike who is one of the full time missionaries here has recently acquired the task of creating events for the sunday school children of his local church once a term. This term I worked with him on a scavenger hunt.  For this hunt the kids had 3 church member's houses they needed to travel to and once they were there they had to complete a blind maze, an obstacle course or some mental puzzles (depending on what house they were at). They also had a list of things they needed to photograph or collect. If they completed their tasks sufficiently and if they found certain things they could then trade them in for trinkets that they would use to decorate a potato. The team with the best potato was the winner! Here are some kids with there giant potatoes All good obstacle courses start with spinning your head on a bat Counseling some kids after the gospel message Puzzle station "find someones

To be honest when I read blogs I generally speed read the written part and bask in the shining wonder of the picture, therefore I feel guilty about posting multiple posts without pictures. However due to my negligence and the lack of friends who like to take zillions of pictures there have been two big events with no pictures (that I can think of). I hereby declare therefore that I will now quickly sum up these events in a way that might hold your attention (if it has not already been lost) Grace Christian Primary School Camp Many kids, few leaders, my team won, water, sun, triple bunk beds, superheroes Calvary Baptist Church of Everton Youth Conference Taxi ride, township, speaking on purity and trust, not many English speakers, good fellowship