Pictures!

Hello everyone, Here are the pictures finally! Sorry about all the trouble with Facebook. Unfortunately, because of my limited internet use the quantity of pictures will be very limited. I hope you enjoy.






At the Nairobi Game Park.











Writing a report for work. This was when one of the kids asked, "How do you get the paper in there?"










This Bible school student was confused when I had him flex his muscles for the picture. I had to explain to him what the shirt meant.








All the kids wanted to hold my hand.

Update

I uploaded some pictures to facebook, but I was informed that you can only view the first one so I'm going to upload them somewhere else and I'll let you all know.

Everything is going well here. I completely over my first case of malaria and I think I made it through the weekend without getting sick again. Yay!

Yesterday (Saturday) I went to my first Sudanese wedding for Asiki and Patricia. It was pretty amazing how many people turned out... even people that weren't invited. Despite the random drunk and crazy people that showed up to get free food and soda, the wedding went off flawlessly. One of the best parts was that it was a beautiful sunny day which was a blessing since we're in the middle of the rainy season. I was named the official cameraman/wedding photographer so I was busy the whole time shooting video and taking pictures.

Well today (Sunday) is a day off. Everybody is tired from the wedding and wants to rest. Two American girls are arriving today. Emily is doing her college internship with e3 and will be living here for three months. Heather is Emily's friend and will be staying here with her for a month. The girls will be teaching local women about health and sanitation. It will be nice to be able to speak normal speed English with someone :)

Well, time for me to get going. I hope you all enjoy the new pictures.

Update

Hello Everyone,
It has been awhile since my last update so I have some stuff to catch you all up on.

First off, I want to thank everyone that has supported me financially. I want to thank you all personally except I have not yet received my list of donors. As soon as I get that list I'll write all of you a thank you note.

Well, I got sick again on Saturday with a mild case of malaria. I was out of commission Saturday, Sunday, and part of today but I'm feeling much better this evening. I think by tomorrow I'll be almost all better. David put me on anti-malaria meds right away which helped ease the symptoms. David Kaya and his family have taken very good care of me, and I have always felt safe in his care.

As for a status update there is not much to tell you about. Things are still moving slow but I count that as a blessing since I wouldn't have been able to do much anyways since I've been sick so much. I met with the guy that runs the organization I'll be training with today, and I'm going to meet with him tomorrow to discuss more specifics about time and place of training.

Ok now for the stories,

The first story I have is about David and Goliath. Kaya and one of the students from the bible school came back to the compound one day last week to find a bunch of cows had invaded his property. The chased out all the cows except for one stubborn cow that just kept running away from the front gate. The student, threw a small stone at the cow to try to scare it towards the gate. Well, the rock hit the cow on the head and it fell down dead! Unfortuntely, David had to pay for the cow, but I did enjoy the beef we had for dinner the next night. I also had a great time giving the bible student a hard time and renaming him David and the cow Goliath.


Last week I was walking around the church site checking out the proposed space for my compound and house. While I was doing this, there were a ton of kids following me wherever I went at but keeping a safe distance. Generally, the children are very friendly, but a little scared of me. Well, as I was walking back, this one brave little girl (maybe 3 years old) walked confidently up to me and held my hand and walked beside me. Well once all the other kids say saw the big white guy didn't eat the girl or anything, they all came running and wanted to hold my hand. Soon, I had up to eight kids on hanging on each arm.


On another day, I was at the church again outside working on writing a report for my bosses of the research I have done. While I was writing the report, acouple of middle school kids came up and started watching me type. They seemed amazed by this and I truly believe that this was the first time they had seen someone type on the computer. After awhile, one of the boys asked me, "how do you get the paper in there?" The kid thought I was typing on actual paper underneath the computer screen! Awesome.

Well those are the stories I have for you right now. Thank y

All Better

Hello all,
I just wanted to let you I'm all better. I think my sickness was caused by some bacteria. I'm sure that's just the first of many times that will happen.

I still have some updates/stories to tell you about. I have written them all down and will type them up and post them soon.

Bummer

Hello Everyone,
I have a few updates prepared to post but they are on my computer and I'm using David's computer right now. This is the first real chance I've had to use the internet in about three days.

I just wanted to ask for your prayers today. Today, I became sick with flu like symptoms and have thrown up a few times. I tested for malaria and it was negative. If I still feel sick tomorrow David will take me to the doctor. Better safe than sorry.

Other than that, I do have some more updates prepared, but I'll have to post those later. I hope you are all doing well.

God Bless,
Stephen