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Hey there friends,
I will admit today and yesterday were trying and tiring, and i've not had a good attitude all day long. You know when you know what you should be doing and yet choose not to for whatever reason? well today i just felt like crap from about noon on and really didnt want to chagne that feeling...
...Nevertheless I want yall to know what's going on
(by the way, i get made fun of every time i say "yall", and I even use it when speaking with locals, and as of yet i think they figure out what i'm saying cuz none of them have asked me to clarify
well before i get serious, check out how nice the beard is coming in....or not
We spent all day yesterday surveying for the Music for life thing i talked about in my last entry. I enjoyed it alot, and picked it up pretty well. The goal was that Mark, Alan and I woudl be able to survey all of Tabitha project by ourselves, and i'm pretty confident we can do that with the knowledge we have. It was actually fun too, to get to meet the people we are serving and do something a little more tangible than computer work.
So we get back and find that someone has broken into the house that three of us are staying at. Which definitely put a damper on a good day. Although all taht was stolen from me was a pair of shoes. I guess it was just a downer to have someone do that to you, especially since they'd have to have know we weren't there, meaning they've been watchign us. It's also a downer that we are here to help people in this country and all this person sees when they look at muzungu's is $$. I mean we are, like the poorest american is still rich here. So the fact that someone broke in and came into the house was worse than actually getting things stolen.
The owner of the house (Chad Gamble) is our director and went back to the US on furlough last friday, and he lost a laptop, a dvd player, and a stereo during the theft add to that he had malaria when he left and he was flying into california and probalby very tired when he found out about it. So he needs some encouragement and prayer more than we do since he lost more.
Add to the scary factor theft is taken so serioiusly here that if someone breaks into your house they are most likely willing to kill rather than get caught and go to prison forever. But not to worry mom, they are hiring a day guard to work at our house for the rest of the summer and he's the brother in law of the day guard here at the office, and i think we'd trust our day guard with anything, even children. So i'll be safe.
So i guess....obviously on my heart is to pray for peopel so desperate they feel they have to take from people to get what they need, whether it's this guy or someone else...i dont know...
Today we went out to survey again and got some done and were about to set up our third control point (by the way i discovered how much fun being rod man is), and it started sprinkling so we got all the equipment and left the tripod so we coudl set up quickly when it passed. We sat in the car for a bit and it got worse so i volunteered to go get teh tripod. We were about 30 feet from the tripod and it took me about 20 second to get there and back and i was completely drenched head to toe. Don't really know the point of this story, and i guess you guys can sense the stale tone of this whole post which is likely stemming from the mood i'm in.
Oh well it's about 830 PM and i'm gonna go home now and go to sleep, I promise to get back to you soon with something better than this one.
Wes and Amby---i'll email you soon!!
much love from africa!!
I will admit today and yesterday were trying and tiring, and i've not had a good attitude all day long. You know when you know what you should be doing and yet choose not to for whatever reason? well today i just felt like crap from about noon on and really didnt want to chagne that feeling...
...Nevertheless I want yall to know what's going on
(by the way, i get made fun of every time i say "yall", and I even use it when speaking with locals, and as of yet i think they figure out what i'm saying cuz none of them have asked me to clarify
well before i get serious, check out how nice the beard is coming in....or not
We spent all day yesterday surveying for the Music for life thing i talked about in my last entry. I enjoyed it alot, and picked it up pretty well. The goal was that Mark, Alan and I woudl be able to survey all of Tabitha project by ourselves, and i'm pretty confident we can do that with the knowledge we have. It was actually fun too, to get to meet the people we are serving and do something a little more tangible than computer work.
So we get back and find that someone has broken into the house that three of us are staying at. Which definitely put a damper on a good day. Although all taht was stolen from me was a pair of shoes. I guess it was just a downer to have someone do that to you, especially since they'd have to have know we weren't there, meaning they've been watchign us. It's also a downer that we are here to help people in this country and all this person sees when they look at muzungu's is $$. I mean we are, like the poorest american is still rich here. So the fact that someone broke in and came into the house was worse than actually getting things stolen.
The owner of the house (Chad Gamble) is our director and went back to the US on furlough last friday, and he lost a laptop, a dvd player, and a stereo during the theft add to that he had malaria when he left and he was flying into california and probalby very tired when he found out about it. So he needs some encouragement and prayer more than we do since he lost more.
Add to the scary factor theft is taken so serioiusly here that if someone breaks into your house they are most likely willing to kill rather than get caught and go to prison forever. But not to worry mom, they are hiring a day guard to work at our house for the rest of the summer and he's the brother in law of the day guard here at the office, and i think we'd trust our day guard with anything, even children. So i'll be safe.
So i guess....obviously on my heart is to pray for peopel so desperate they feel they have to take from people to get what they need, whether it's this guy or someone else...i dont know...
Today we went out to survey again and got some done and were about to set up our third control point (by the way i discovered how much fun being rod man is), and it started sprinkling so we got all the equipment and left the tripod so we coudl set up quickly when it passed. We sat in the car for a bit and it got worse so i volunteered to go get teh tripod. We were about 30 feet from the tripod and it took me about 20 second to get there and back and i was completely drenched head to toe. Don't really know the point of this story, and i guess you guys can sense the stale tone of this whole post which is likely stemming from the mood i'm in.
Oh well it's about 830 PM and i'm gonna go home now and go to sleep, I promise to get back to you soon with something better than this one.
Wes and Amby---i'll email you soon!!
much love from africa!!
posted by Kercho at 8:02 PM
1 Comments:
:D
i FINALLY got a shoutout in the blog.
i'll be expecting that email. you've got some time...i'm leaving now to head to the hospital and will be pretty drugged until at least midway through tomorrow i'm guessing....
love and prayers!
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