The north

Well... It has been another week... and i went too 3 communities in the past 2 days... The poverty still doesn't stop shocking me... which i think is a good thing.... The fact that these people are drinking brown water that the animals drink is still shocking to me! They also are holding school under trees... one school has 2400 students... 40 teachers and only 16 classrooms... can you imagine?? we did 16 interviews in two days... it was intense... in one of the interviews, we were in the head masters office and there were 21 wasp nests, there were bees flying in and out, and there were several spiders on the sealing... it was a bit much for me... we also stayed in a hotel that was probably the most beat down place ever.. haha.. welcome to Africa... there was broken pipes.. and bees in my room... it was amazing! and we paid 20 dollars to stay there!! ha... but it was a good trip and we got a lot of information for our packets. It was encouraging to see also some of the communities working for themselves to get things accomplished. I am getting a bit tired though.. i am working 66 hour weeks, and i have to write about one article every half hour next week... so that will be interesting to see if i can get it all done.... we are going hiking this Saturday and it should be a lot of fun! also our friends from Tennessee are coming next week. President Bush came last week too... it is funny because he comes and we shut down all the roads, and turn off all the internet so he could send things to the US... so that is probably the closest i have ever been to our president!! Exciting huh! so when we were in the community the kids sang us a song that says "English is the best....".... i was wondering where they learned that because that seems to be a little... WRONG?.. ha… who teaches kids these things?? It is a struggle to make people see us as equal and not treat us different since we are white… it is funny though because if we ever walk any where people are SHOCKED because they don’t think white people walk… they think they DRIVE… and they never think we can make it anywhere, that we will get to tired. It is humorous. So pray for me that I don’t get to tired, that I finish all I need to, and that Gods will is done!