OKAY!!! guys. I'm sorry. I haven't blogged in like four million years (like NO ONE CARES PAIGE!!!!) but!!! i am back!!(seriously...no one...cares...) but many things have happened since I last blogged, starting with my annual trip to
the african lands!
this was the best Africa trip I have ever been on. Like..I LOVED the group. loved. we all got along so well! everything went so smoothly and it was just a great time had by all! lets see...
1) Machakos.
we headed straight to this town right from the airport.We stayed at Scott Theological College as per usual. Here, we worked on helping level ground for a new preschool, did VBS and multiple church ministries.
this is ishmael. crazy kid who has been at Scott every year. we have a love hate relationship.....
(aka hes psycho and pretty much hates me but im totally fine with it.....)
heading to the annual soccer game verses the africans. guess who wins every year.
(hint: not. us.) (if you think I personally have ever touched the field THINK AGAIN!!!!!)
you know this thing? that we all did in lower school? like apparently if you say "girl" it sounds funny...(never has worked for me...typical..) this is just another example about how everyone follows peters lead no. matter. what.
even innocent african children!
our first sunday! (with my bffs ellie and heather) notice our very modest outfits. (a necessity in africa)
then we took our trip to the woodcarvers! me being a third year, i got a total of one thing. while others left with about 100 dollars worth of woodcarvings. in.sane.
you find weird things at the woodcarvers...peter actually wanted to buy this....
then! later in the week, some of us split up from the Machakos group to head off to another city
2)Kajiado.
we were all really happy about the 7 hour bus ride..............
we stopped at this orphanage on the way. everything seemed ok and normal until the head of the orphanage started bringing the kids up one by one and asking where their parents were...example of something she said=
"Her mom lives just down the street...in the cemetery.."
AWK AWK AWK AWK AWK
the kids were adorable though!!!!
this is mama ruth. the matriarch of the village we built the church at (Rruya) She is an AWESOME woman and has a really cool story. we got to listen to it one day and it was lovely.
this. this is chai. apparently since africa got colonized by europe or something they have tea time at 10:45.
EVERY.DAY.
do not be fooled. this isnt like starbucks chai tea (even if it was....i doubt it would be any better..) guys. this is like drinking liquid sugar. NOTHING. IS. WORSE. and we HAVE to drink it...or else..things happen. >:(
this guy was seriously fascinated by my camera. so obviously we had to get a picture. first off..like CHECK the skirt. we had to wear those things. every. day. they were PAINFUL. the women would pull them until our stomachs exploded into tiny pieces. it was not ok.
THIS is what happened because of the skirts we had to wear. like....what..the..heck..
what a beauty
the family! (aka the people who went to kajiado.) (thats the church we built in two days!)
essstttttaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! she was our bff the whole time.
the completion of the church!
we loved esther i promise.....
AND THEN!!! we met up with the rest of the group at...
3) SAFARI!!!!
safari. what we look forward to every year. after two weeks of hard labour, we get to relax for two days before starting our journey home. its always a good time to see the other group!
the animals are pretty cool too!
(seeing as this is my THIRD safari......its not as exciting to see my 705th zebra......so sorry for the lack of pictures i apologize)
this was a road sign we saw on the safari. so now whenever we say "lol" in the african group text we say "oloololo" then "gate" always.
then we take our pictures on the last day!
these are the wonderful humans that have gone for three years!
whole. world.
the family!
(again) (complete with heather and james as the parents holding hands and quincy being the only one smiling.....worthless)
bffffzzzzzzz
love. them. to. death.
all in all, this trip was the most amazing trip ive ever been on. i love africa and i advise everyone to go if given the chance!!!
AND NOW!!!!!
life after africa.
basiclly all i do is hang out with the africans ITS FINE!!!
we have things like kareoke night.
yeah.
and then we obviously went to midnight harry potter together!
me and ellie were wearing the same thing when we met at my house..............not surprising...
then me heath and peter decided it would be a good idea to make shirts like this...
(not. a good idea.)
me and heath were really excited about the glasses...
kj brought a robe so we could like...you know dress up as a wizard...yeah it was a graduation robe.......heath wore it all night....
and THEN the lake this weekend! obviously it was an africa reunion
(even though we hang out every night...)
it was probably one of the more fun weekends of my life! ive actually never laughed harder...especially when we played pictionary telephone...
examples of our artistic capabilities...
this is the beautiful place we were! like im obsessed....
ok!!!!! well thats about it! i really and truly cant tell you why i just took hours upon hours to blog about things that
a) no one is going to read and
b) NO ONE cares about!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
like...thats embarrassing.....oh well....
LOVE YOU ALL!!!
derp. the ring style.
