Looking pretty in the garden:
Not particularly pleased with how playing the garden makes her hands dirty.
Thursday, August 28, 2008
New Pictures
Some new pictures of Beatrice taken last week.
Looking pretty in the garden:
Not particularly pleased with how playing the garden makes her hands dirty.
Looking pretty in the garden:
Not particularly pleased with how playing the garden makes her hands dirty.
Sunday, August 24, 2008
Old Pictures
I thought I'd re-live my last trip to Kwasizibantu Mission in South Africa by posting some pictures. I went with my mom in 2005 . It would be fabulous if we could all go one day!
The mission is completely self sufficient and never solicits for money. They grow all their veggies and have chickens and pigs and cows. God has been good to them and a while back they found a fresh water spring on their land. Now they have started a plant and bottle and distribute their own spring water.
I kind of wish they didn't have to kill the piggies but I know they need the food.
The mission is nestled in the hills of Natal. This is at the top of a hill called "die kop" (the head). Making our way up to the Kop, bare-foot children came out of their huts to wave at our little car which groaned and coughed up the dirt path called a road.
The old auditorium that recently burned down. Here you can see it held thousands of children for the youth conference.
I wanted to take this guy home but I think we might have ended up with his entire family, so I settled for giving him chocolates.
This wild horse just wandered up to us one day and started following us around. I think he thought we had food.
The couples who live and work at the mission get to stay in Rondavels like the one below.
They have an AIDS hospice, an orphanage, and a few different schools (the Tabitha adult school where people can get their high school equivalency, a K-12, and a creche called the Tembaluthu play center---ssooooo cute!)
Mission Schools
Who knows what will happen in our lives, but perhaps one day Daniel and I can work there for a year or two. I could work in the school and he would definately find himself to be a valued commodity. They need a lot of technical support running their website and the computers for their radio station. I thought he might like to work in the hot houses with the veggies.
The mission is completely self sufficient and never solicits for money. They grow all their veggies and have chickens and pigs and cows. God has been good to them and a while back they found a fresh water spring on their land. Now they have started a plant and bottle and distribute their own spring water.
I kind of wish they didn't have to kill the piggies but I know they need the food.
The mission is nestled in the hills of Natal. This is at the top of a hill called "die kop" (the head). Making our way up to the Kop, bare-foot children came out of their huts to wave at our little car which groaned and coughed up the dirt path called a road.
The old auditorium that recently burned down. Here you can see it held thousands of children for the youth conference.
I wanted to take this guy home but I think we might have ended up with his entire family, so I settled for giving him chocolates.
This wild horse just wandered up to us one day and started following us around. I think he thought we had food.
The couples who live and work at the mission get to stay in Rondavels like the one below.
They have an AIDS hospice, an orphanage, and a few different schools (the Tabitha adult school where people can get their high school equivalency, a K-12, and a creche called the Tembaluthu play center---ssooooo cute!)
Mission Schools
Who knows what will happen in our lives, but perhaps one day Daniel and I can work there for a year or two. I could work in the school and he would definately find himself to be a valued commodity. They need a lot of technical support running their website and the computers for their radio station. I thought he might like to work in the hot houses with the veggies.
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
This latte-drinking, bleeding heart liberal....
is asking you to consider voting for Barack Obama this November. I just watched his appearance on the Ellen show (shut up, you know you've seen it) and asked myself, how could anyone not vote for someone with such a trustworthy brow? I'm just kidding. Here is a cartoon I found: 
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Soccer highlights
August 10th
D and I watched a little soccer on Sunday. Brazil, a team made up entirely of professionals played New Zealand, a team comprised solely of college students. Seeing as how New Zealand doesn't have a professional team, it wasn't really a fair match. Nonetheless, we enjoyed watching that goofy Brazilian with the contagious smile win us over once again with his fancy footwork and goal assists. I am of course speaking of Ronaldinho.
We also watched Cameroon score a goal against Honduras. In true African style they all gathered after their goal and performed a celebratory dance. The crowd followed by chanting the name of the player who had scored the goal: Ole, ole, ole, ole...ole! How appropriate that a man with this name became a soccer player!
D and I watched a little soccer on Sunday. Brazil, a team made up entirely of professionals played New Zealand, a team comprised solely of college students. Seeing as how New Zealand doesn't have a professional team, it wasn't really a fair match. Nonetheless, we enjoyed watching that goofy Brazilian with the contagious smile win us over once again with his fancy footwork and goal assists. I am of course speaking of Ronaldinho.
We also watched Cameroon score a goal against Honduras. In true African style they all gathered after their goal and performed a celebratory dance. The crowd followed by chanting the name of the player who had scored the goal: Ole, ole, ole, ole...ole! How appropriate that a man with this name became a soccer player!
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