ETHIOPIA | Monday, 14 May 2012 | Views [722]
This past Thursday was
sports day as well as my birthday. I was nervous to see how the sports day
would turn out. I have learned with weeks of planning and meetings that things
never go quite as planned. I tried to be as organized ... Read more >
ETHIOPIA | Monday, 14 May 2012 | Views [691]
In IT the power has been
working really well! We have had six computers that have worked for the full
three hours that we have been in the class. It’s awesome. A miracle really.
Only a couple times in the past month has the power ... Read more >
ETHIOPIA | Sunday, 22 Apr 2012 | Photo Gallery
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ETHIOPIA | Monday, 26 Mar 2012 | Photo Gallery
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ETHIOPIA | Monday, 26 Mar 2012 | Views [1905]
Harbu Chulule is
awesome. I really am enjoying our stay in the town! I have come to the
conclusion from my time living in Ethiopia that Ethiopians are the nicest
people in the world… hands down! They become even nicer as soon as you attempt
to speak ... Read more >
ETHIOPIA | Friday, 9 Mar 2012 | Views [1018] | Video
Keeping to form I am very behind in my blog updates. My apologies!
Life has been really good. I have been in Ethiopia for the past couple of
months. What an amazing country. It is here that coffee ceremonies happen
almost daily, the dancing is ... Read more >
ETHIOPIA | Monday, 2 Jan 2012 | Views [2954]
Oh man, I can’t believe
how much I have to catch up on. My apologies for what is sure to be a long, and
not too detailed post!!
From December 8 until
the 20 th we had lots of fun in Uganda. We toured around the city of
Kampala for a few ... Read more >
UGANDA | Tuesday, 27 Dec 2011 | Photo Gallery
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UGANDA | Friday, 9 Dec 2011 | Views [683]
We met the team from HOPEthiopia at the airport Saturday the 26th
of November. They had just spent one week working in Harbu Chulule, the town
where Rilla and I are going to be spending a lot of our time after Christmas.
From the sounds of it, it ... Read more >
RWANDA | Monday, 28 Nov 2011 | Views [771] | Comments [1] | Video
The last two weeks have been spent at the guesthouse in
Gahini with the group from Saskatchewan. We haven’t been at the camp. The group
who started the camp four years ago had the intention of making the camp
self-run, without the need for westerners ... Read more >
RWANDA | Monday, 14 Nov 2011 | Photo Gallery
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RWANDA | Monday, 14 Nov 2011 | Views [1633] | Comments [1]
We met the team coming from Saskatchewan at the airport last
Sunday. We had stayed at a hostel the night before and were surprised when we
went for breakfast that morning and it seemed like they were not ready, even
though they said breakfast would ... Read more >
RWANDA | Sunday, 6 Nov 2011 | Views [808] | Comments [1] | Video
After Stone Town we spent three days at a Nungwi beach on the northern tip of the island. I wish I had a lot of interesting stories to tell of our stay there, but I'm not going to lie, we spent a lot of our time relaxing, reading, eating and sleeping.... Read more >
TANZANIA | Monday, 31 Oct 2011 | Views [699]
We were able to go to the Diwali festival on Wednesday
night. It was insane!! I now know what it must sound like to be in the middle
of war! Basically, everyone came to the street that had all the Hindu temples.
There were babies and seniors and everyone ... Read more >
TANZANIA | Thursday, 27 Oct 2011 | Photo Gallery
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KENYA | Thursday, 27 Oct 2011 | Views [1189]
The night bus to Mombasa was long but pretty uneventful. We
arrived in Mombasa at 5:30 on Friday morning. There were a couple stops that we
were able to get off at, and unfortunately after receiving poor advice from our
in bus stewardess we got ... Read more >
CANADA | Sunday, 23 Oct 2011 | Photo Gallery
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KENYA | Friday, 21 Oct 2011 | Views [4123] | Comments [1]
Yesterday we had our last day of placement in Kisii, I at the hospital and Rilla at Emmanuel Light Academy school. The last week has been really good. I continued to help in the HIV clinic, testing more clients and patients in the wards. It is hard ... Read more >
KENYA | Saturday, 15 Oct 2011 | Views [1039] | Comments [2]
This weekend we went on a safari!! It was such an amazing
experience. On Friday we left Nairobi for Massai Mara. There were five of us
along for the safari which was a small number, but ended up being perfect. We
only had one van, and there was ... Read more >
KENYA | Friday, 7 Oct 2011 | Views [1045] | Comments [1]
Last
Sunday we went to church at Pastor Robert's Deliverance Church. They have now
moved onto the new property, and had a tent brought to the place that has been
leveled for the new building. Pastor Robert asked Rilla and I a couple days
before ... Read more >
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