In time....

After spending quite some time here, I tend to glaze over the things when I first got here would shock me. I dreamed the of the days when I didn’t seem so wide eyed…. Now I feel as if I have reached that point here. Most of these “shocking” things happen while driving. I feel like after driving here I could drive anywhere, but I am also fearful of my driving when I return to the states.
- Guys in roller blades while holding on the back bumper of a bus. This scares me to death! Especially when I am driving behind it!
- Getting thru a traffic light without power. This is insane. Reoccurring all the time here due to power outages. Just gun it and go!
- Speaking of power outages, power going out in a restaurant for a few minutes and sitting in the dark until they’re generator kicks on.
- Buying multiple of something I really like just incase they are out of it for a long period of time.
- Guys peeing on the side of the road. I just laugh out loud every time I see it.
- Street sweepers – these are men and woman who spend their days doing a thankless job. They sweep sand in the roads, I am shocked they put their lives in the hands of such insane driving.
- Days going not quite as I had planned—waiting on a fundi (mr fix it) who said he would here an hour ago, traffic not moving when it needs to be, product not working and needing to return it and only to have its replacement fail as well, having an “Im not the mood for Africa day” and hermit inside for a few hours and watch too many episodes of Saved by the Bell….

This next month the fun will begin… Students will be returning to campus, 5,000 new students will join us, and we as a “team” will tackle the task at hand. GREAT doors have opened for us to walk thru, we are excited to see what is in store!

6 months wrap up!

6 months ago I sobbed getting on the plane... unsure of what was on the other side of the ocean. Now 6 months later, I am proud to call Tanzania my home. It truly has been a whirlwind.

I have learned to...

- Live alone. The past 6 years I have lived in and out of dorm rooms. Then I went from all of that to a 2 bed room by myself half way around the world.
- Drive a stick shift. Learning to drive here alone was has been crazy much less learn to drive all over again.
- Learn to speak a language sufficiently.
- Make new friends from all over!
- Catch a vision for the ministry that lies ahead! Oh the things God's going to do!
-See doors open for our ministry on campus!
Lastly,
- Lean on my Savior more than ever before....

That last one has been my biggest lesson of all. Without that all the things above I have learned would not be possible.

I got to take a break from TZ and head up to Kenya to see some good friends. Below is some love a giraffe gave me and the after shock!