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Tuesday, 03 June 2008

OKay... apparently i have to post to keep this... so i'm posting.

Saturday, 05 March 2005

Solving this jigsaw puzzle and posting about this sweepstakes for Big Red makes me eligible for free Xanga Premium for life...

Thursday, 05 August 2004

hi everyone,

I dunno who still reads this but i figure i can blog a little and tell everyone what's been going on in Zambia. It's been a really tiring week for the whole team and we aren't sure why that is. There is this extreme tiredness that has overtaken our team and sickness is spreading through but I know that God is good and that this is nothing to worry about.

We are now done with deciding where our ministries and have been focusing on our areas of ministry for about a week now. I am working with street children who most have no parents or anyone who is willing to take care of them. These children suffer from HIV, STD's, TB, Malaria and any other disease you can think of. These children live day in and day out not knowing whether they will have food or not. They live day in and day out not knowing whether they will come out of the day without getting a beating from police or bigger street kids. My focus recently has been at a drop in center called Chisomo. Chisomo is a place that the kids can feel safe and just be kids. They get 2 meals a day there and play games, do bible studies, and just act like kids. The street life is very difficult and chisomo is a place that they can relax. I have been goign every day there, playing with the kids and showing them that i care. Most of these children have never had anyone be there for them when they needed someone.

Next week, i will be doing a night street walk which i am excited about and also dreading. I dread this becuase i have not fully realized what kind of a life these children have to suffer through. Many of these children use inhalents at night to keep warm and to escape from the life they are living.Others are raped by bigger boys or are beaten up for their money and I will have an oppertunity to see this first hand. Next thursday will be my first oppertunity to go see the lives these children live. I did not have an oppertunity before becuase it was illegal for us to be on the streets due to the police trying to stop child trafficing.

Anywyaz... just wanted to tell whoever reads this a little about what's been going on here in Africa. I hope that everyone is doing well. God bless.... see you all when i get home.

Wednesday, 30 June 2004

hey everyone.... long time no blog. This blog is to comemorate Cameron "monkey" Rudolph (a close friend of mine) who is moving to Oregon. On our last day hanging out, Joe Z, Cameron and I spent the day helping his family move out of their apartment. After a excruciating 6 hours of moving we headed toward speed ring which is a indoor go kart racing in sunnyvale. If anyone wants to go just tell me and I'll totally go again. It was soo much fun except when joe rammed me into a wall and none of the track marshalls saw me, so i had to sit there wasting a good minute and a half waiting for them to push me off the wall. Cameron ended up with the fastest track time out of all three of us. I ended up second and joe was last. After that we went to see spiderman 2. Good movie, kinda cheesy at points and i don't like kirsten dunst but oh wellz. It was very entertaining. A very interesting happened at the movie theater. When the movie started the top half of the movie was on the bottom and teh bottom half was on top. Boy did this piss people off. The whole theater started to boo and yell and it seemed like they were going to riot. Finally they fixed it and we watched the movie. The movie ended about 2:30 and i brought everyone home. This will probably be the last time we hang out with cameron like this again. He's moving to some small town called Bent which is pretty much inaccesible by plane. Okay.. that's all.