Monday, January 14, 2008

Getting integrated



Well, we have been here a few days, and i am falling in love with the culture one day at a time. The team keeps growing closer, and we continue to get more used to being here. We met yesterday with our cornerstone advisers (who are the people who help us get integrated with African society, as well as the people we stay with on our rural visit). My adviser is Henry, and he is great. My group is me kelly, and chris. (The pictures are of the City and of our Group). I think it is a pretty fun group and i have enjoyed being with them! I have learned much about the culture, a few things that stuck out is that if one is under dressed in the city, like wearing to skanky of cloths, the people will just rip off there cloths till they are naked to shame them so that they wont ever wear cloths like that again! I thought that was pretty interesting. Henry tells us we are going to catch, cook and eat squirrel when we go on our rural visit, i am pretty excited about that! Another of the groups are going to see a 19 year olds circumcision in which the adviser is a little animate about Justin participating.... is it a Joke? not sure... but we hope so!! haha! i have really appreciated the humor and the sarcasm of every one here, it has made things way fun, and every one seems to jell better with it. We went to the Hospital yesterday to see the place we would go and also to get some advice on how to stay alive, and the doctor was hilarious....

I have loved my time here SO much, and i am glad i get to spend four months here!
my first class on African Religion starts today at 8:30, so i am excited to see how that Goes!

i miss you all so much!
Praise God that the Luggage came yesterday! so we officially have it all!!

Keep praying for our relationships, and pray that we will continue to serve the best we can!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Sweet stuff! Good luck with the circumcism...ummm...yup!

Christa said...

Hmmm...a 19 year old getting circumcised...wow...and Kory thought that it was difficult to WATCH Michael's circumcision. haha Glad to hear you are having a BLAST!