Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Fast Food Anyone?

Here is a ceeb (rice and sauce) restaurant. They are all around - you must bring your own container and you order per person. Here is our former team mate Patty waiting for our rice.



Here is our favorite "fast food" restaurant - not your McD's, Burger King or Hardees, but delicious nonetheless. We order a "meat" sandwich and it costs around $2. It is mutton with onions, spicy mustard, spices on a baguette. This is him preparing the sheep - they use everything. Not sure who eats the rest of it, but we do enjoy the meat part - not the organs, intestines, head or other choice parts!


Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Video of our day at Accrobaobob

Here is a simple video of our day shot by one of the guys - he was at the back of the line with Ron and I, so you see a lot of us.

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Outreach - Accrobaobob

It has been an exciting time since school started in January. Ron went to Turkey to finally finish his classes for his Masters of Divinity degree. He is 1 paper away from completing all graduation requirements. While he was gone, a team from Northwest Baptist Church came in to go on outreach and serve here with us for a week. A huge surprise was that his Mom came and surprised us. She has never flown and didn't even have a passport before this trip. After seeing her walk out of the airport, I looked up to the sky and said I was looking for all of the pigs!! She did great here - we were so proud of her. The team - Bob, Charley and Mark worked really hard on outreach and then after observed and helped with our Spiritual Emphasis Week (SEW). They are praying that a team from NWBC will come next January and do the same trip.

After they left we had some time to recuperate, but then we had our weekend that is reserved for the dorm students. We went to Accrobaobob - which is a high ropes course through the baobob trees. It was pretty terrifying for an old girl like me. The guys just whipped through and I tentatively made each step. We were so proud of our kids - all of them went through the big course. Zach is not a big fan of things that are scary, and Faith is little still, but both tackled this with no problem. You do the whole course attached to wires and carabiners and several zip lines. When you walk through one area, you unclip each carabiner and attach it to the next wire. Stepping off of the platform for each zip line is a pretty intense feeling. It did get easier with each one and by the end of the course I started to relax, even letting go of my death grip. It was a great day! Below are some pics from January: