The ease of my life...

So I know that I haven't posted in a bit...that is because nothing has happened...Michi left but that is about it....life is very boring and goes on ever the same...but yesterday I had to go to Lusaka to get my work permit....yes I know I have been here 3 months and I am just getting my work permit, ah Africa.....anyways, I got to got with the driver for the project, Joe. So I got to sit in the front seat and get a good look of everything and I realized how very blessed I am as I passed shanty houses held together by cinder blocks on the roofs and protected from the rain by garbage bags for doors. I watched people laboring in fields of corn and woman earning their families income from selling tomatoes on the side of the road, with six or seven women near by. I watched a little girl of six or seven wearing no more than a tattered, dirty dress, carrying a baby on her back. I watched a man and some children getting water from a filthy rain puddle....filling up four or five large jugs, then carry them away on there heads....with no house or dwelling within five miles. My life at home, in America is so easy and I take so much for granted! I have clean warm water for a shower whenever I feel the least bit dirty. I have clean cold water in abundance to drink whenever I feel parched. I have a nice big house that keeps me dry and warm when it rains...and whenever I feel too hot or cold I just turn a dial and I am comfortable in minutes. I have nice, clean clothes to protect my body and shoes to protect my feet. When they get dirty I just put them in a machine that makes them clean again. I have food that I don't have to sweat to get. I don't have to raise chickens or goats and them kill them to eat meat. I don't have to work all day in a field to have vegetables to eat. There is nothing I went without and nothing I really appreciated.
Even here in Africa I have a really easy life in comparison...OK I have to treat or boil my water....but I don't have to walk five miles to get it. I have a house to live in and a bed to sleep in. I have a store where I can buy all of my food. I don't have a refrigerator or a oven...but I have good, healthy food everyday that I don't have to labor for. I am so very blessed and I have so much and I want everyone who reads this remember this and thank your Father for everything he has given you.

Day Trip to Victoria Falls and other photos.....

So I have been trying to upload pictures but it is not working! Arrg! So here is a link to my facebook where you can see the photos....

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2008874&l=3741f&id=1435457137

Let me know if it works!

So Victoria Falls was AMAZING!!!
Everyone should go there....and spend some time there!
So Saturday morning we woke up really early and got ready to go....we went and got my package from the post office at 8 (by the way mommy, it has been there since the 27th of December) and then I went home and opened it....thanks! But after that we got our stuff and went to the bus station....and caught the next bus leaving for Livingstone. We than sat on the bus for 9 hours....some of it, the road was not paved....my butt and back were really sore when we got off.....we then made our way to the backpackers place we had reserved for the night....checked in and then went to find transport to the Falls....we got a little lost but finally made it to where the mini buses are that go to the falls....but just our luck the bus broke down so we got a taxi instead...which is more expensive but it worked out great....our driver was really nice and took us on a tour of the falls and then waited for us to drive us back.....the falls really were amazing....so huge! I have seen Niagara falls and it is nothing in comparison! We got super soaked, it was like it was pouring rain the whole time.....I love, love, loved it!

Turning Point

So yesterday was a pretty darn good day! It started out amazing and inspiring because I got to talk to my spectacular best friend Danielle! So is so wonderful gave me tons of help and encouragement....then the day went down a little because we had a "meeting" with most of the staff....now these so called meetings are super long and they just blab about stupid things and some one usually ends up fighting.....so I sat there, taking minutes, and feeling frustrated, because we had planned to go to the hospital that day and ask if there was anything we could do to help.....so about 3 hours later the "meeting" is over. Now it is lunch time and we go back to the house and eat some PB and J's and then buy bananas to take with us to the hospital....now it was my idea to go to the hospital, I wanted to go last week but Mich wasn't feeling well....we had been throwing around ideas of what we can do here, because neither of us can just sit around and do office work any more....Mich had the idea to teach kids songs and sports and I had the idea of going to the hospital....so we are turning a new leaf and doing both! So after we ate we set off to the Hospital....it is about a 45 min walk from out house...so I got some good exercise and I also worked on my tan....but on the way there we passed a bakery...now a few weeks ago we had a lunch for the donors of the project and we had this amazing rolls....like Sister Petersons, but bigger.......I was pretty sure this is where they had gotten them from so we stopped and Awhhhh....there they were, with whole wheat bread and pizza! I was so happy! So we bought some and then finished our journey to the hospital....Now i was pretty nervous I mean if you know me at all I, my general rule is to stay far far away from any kind of hospital, doctors....most of the time only bad comes from it....and I didn't know what they were going to say...if they said No, what was I going to do? So I go in and talk to the first nurse I can find and she takes us into another room and goes and talks to, some one higher in authority then comes back out and says er area most welcomed. then she asks if we are nurses and we say no, then she asks us what out professions were and I said I worked with kids...so she sends us to the Children's Ward....now I am way excited because this is exactly what I wanted...so we talk to the head nurse and she says that we are welcome and says we can talk to the kids....so we sit down in front of a boy, about 7 or 8...he has burns over most of his body and is covered in gauze. The is a mosquito net covering his bed so it was really hard to see him....but I just started talking...about anything, about my family, asking what he liked to do, sports, anything I could think of....but I wanted to read to him or something but I have no material, because I didn't think I would be doing something like this....and after we talked to him for a while we told him that we would me back and we went and talk to another little boy, with a broken arm and him father....again I just talked and talked....and the little boy didn't really respond. His father said he was really hungry, he hadn't eaten anything all day....so I looked at Mich and decided to give him our banana, that we had just bought....I got it and gave it too him...he snarfed it down with a huge smile on his face that he tried to hide...it was so cute.....so we stayed a little longer and then made plans to make some things to take back with us....we are going to try to make some books.....It made me so happy, that I could do even this tiny thing. So I think it was ones of my favorite days here!