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Trip: E.A.S.T.

There are [25] stories from my trip: E.A.S.T.


Sports Day Birthday!!

ETHIOPIA | Monday, 14 May 2012 | Views [701]

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 >


Malkom Fesika!

ETHIOPIA | Monday, 14 May 2012 | Views [672]

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 >


Photos: Harbu Chulule!

ETHIOPIA | Sunday, 22 Apr 2012 | Photo Gallery


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Photos: Ethiopia

ETHIOPIA | Monday, 26 Mar 2012 | Photo Gallery


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Harbu Chulule

ETHIOPIA | Monday, 26 Mar 2012 | Views [1867]

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 >


Catch Up!

ETHIOPIA | Friday, 9 Mar 2012 | Views [996] | 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 >


Amaseganalo

ETHIOPIA | Monday, 2 Jan 2012 | Views [2923]

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 >


Photos: Uganda

UGANDA | Tuesday, 27 Dec 2011 | Photo Gallery


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HOPEthiopia/Rwanda

UGANDA | Friday, 9 Dec 2011 | Views [667]

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 >


Monkey's, Casts and Tacos!

RWANDA | Monday, 28 Nov 2011 | Views [745] | 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 >


Photos: Camp Gahini

RWANDA | Monday, 14 Nov 2011 | Photo Gallery


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Camp Gahini

RWANDA | Monday, 14 Nov 2011 | Views [1604] | 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!

RWANDA | Sunday, 6 Nov 2011 | Views [778] | 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 >


Dhow is Tanzania? ...

TANZANIA | Monday, 31 Oct 2011 | Views [670]

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 >


Photos: Tanzania

TANZANIA | Thursday, 27 Oct 2011 | Photo Gallery


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Mombasa!!

KENYA | Thursday, 27 Oct 2011 | Views [1157]

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 >


Photos: Kenya 2

CANADA | Sunday, 23 Oct 2011 | Photo Gallery


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Goodbye Kisii

KENYA | Friday, 21 Oct 2011 | Views [4083] | 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 >


Safari!!

KENYA | Saturday, 15 Oct 2011 | Views [1014] | 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 >


Medical Camp

KENYA | Friday, 7 Oct 2011 | Views [1022] | 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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